Department of Accounting
Department News
Texas MPAs Dominate AICPA Scholarship Competition
Six Texas MPA students have received American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) John L. Carey Scholarships for 2008-09. The program provides financial assistance to liberal arts degree holders pursuing graduate studies in accounting and a CPA designation.
Of the twelve scholarships awarded nationwide, half were awarded to Texas MPA students. Each will receive $5,000 from the AICPA Foundation. The scholarship award winners are: Sarah Bartholomew, Barton Bradshaw, Lawrence Chow, Brian Morgan, Michele Perry and Darin Styles.
Ten Texas MPA students Awarded TSCPA Scholarships.
Ten McCombs School students have been awarded Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants scholarships for 2008-09. Awardees are chosen from student nominees across Texas who intend to become Texas Certified Public Accountants and enter the accounting profession upon graduation. Congratulations to these students who will receive $1,500 for the academic year.
- Trevor Angelle Broussard
- Lyra Gesseme Burgess
- Katherine M. Clemens
- Leigh K. Conway
- Elizabeth Anne Gawlik
- Lauren Elaine Kessler
- Jenna Kathleen Pickel
- Terri Kisler Rice
- Tulsi Jitendra Sachde
- Natasha Pennie Tosirisuk
McCombs Accounting Students Receive Endowed Presidential Scholarships
Honored for their academic excellence, extracurricular activities and leadership, eleven McCombs accounting students have received Endowed Presidential Scholarships for 2008-09. Nominations are open to currently enrolled students from any major across campus. Historically, all, or a majority of, the students nominated by the Department of Accounting each year have been successful in garnering these competitive awards. This year’s deserving students have continued the tradition, and we congratulate them on their achievement.
- Stephanie Agnes Cardwell
- Albert Hsin-Fu Chen
- Shelby A. Dover
- Colin Yee Huong
- Yezi Jin
- Janice Susie Kim
- Howard Henry Klein
- Oluwafemi O.Salami
- Samuel Fredric Stoutner
- Laura Marie Vedas
- David Anthony Wesch
Jim Franklin Named New Texas MPA Program Director
Steve Limberg, faculty director of the Texas MPA program, announced
last week that Jim Franklin has been named director of the No. 1-ranked
MPA program.
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Kinney Presents at Treasury Department Hearing on Auditing Profession
Accounting Professor William R. Kinney, Jr. lent his expertise to a U.S. Treasury Department committee on the auditing profession June 3 in Washington D.C.
MPA ’08 Sunhee Kim to Join IASB as Technical Associate
Sunhee Kim, MPA
’08, has been appointed by the International Accounting Standards Board
(IASB) as a technical associate. She will begin the prestigious two-year
appointment at the IASB’s London office in October 2008.
Read More.Accounting Practicum Receives Governor’s Volunteer Award
The Accounting Practicum course, Federal Taxation of Low Income Filers:
Socio-Economic Forces, has received the OneStar Foundation Governor’s
Volunteer Award. Since the course was created in 2005, more than 400
students have prepared income tax forms for thousands of working poor
families through Foundation Communities’ Community Tax Centers programs.
The work of these 400 student volunteers has expanded the program’s
capacity by more than 20,000 hours of free tax preparation to low to
moderate income families. The award recipients will be honored by Texas
State Comptroller Susan Combs, friends and families at the Driskill
Hotel in Austin, Texas on June 4 at 5 p.m.
Pictured Above: MPA Faculty Director Steve Limberg and KVUE news
anchor Christine Haas
UT Passing Rate on the CPA Exam Highest in the Country
Of the nearly 200 UT students who took a portion of Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exam exam in 2007, 76.8 percent passed on the first try, according to statistics compiled by the American Institute of Public Accounting. UT's passing rate is the highest in the country. Read the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy's article. (pdf)
Department of Accounting Mission
The mission of the Department of Accounting is to further excellence in the accounting discipline within the mission of the university and the McCombs School of Business. In the context of the department this means
- Expanding and creating knowledge through scholarship of theoretical and practical impact, and
- Communicating knowledge of the accounting discipline through teaching undergraduate and graduate students, training accounting scholars and educators, and interacting with the external business and policy-making community.
