Accounting
Read about BYU Marriott's School of Accountancy, the students in our accounting programs, the faculty and their research, as well as where our alumni are in their careers.
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BYU Marriott Honors Faculty and Staff for Leadership and Service
In April 2025, the BYU Marriott School of Business recognized selected faculty, staff, and administrators for exemplifying the college’s vision, mission, values, and guiding principle in both classroom and administrative work.
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BYU business professors find ‘margins of error’ in workplace correlate with unethical behavior outside workplace
Tolerance mindset to let small errors slide may impact other decisions
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Building a Global Career from the Bottom Up
For 12 years, accounting alum Michael Parker worked contentedly in public accounting. Then he got a taste of company finances and realized he wanted to be a part of a growing, new company.
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Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: The 2025 Bateman Awards
In March, one student from each undergraduate program received the Bateman Award for their exemplary dedication to the BYU Marriott values, commitment to academic excellence, and profound drive to serve others.
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Accounting Courses Focus on Giving Students Real-World Experience
When the School of Accountancy was made aware of a potential gap in teaching methods, they designed two new courses—hoping that the hands-on learning opportunities would help students bridge the gap between knowledge and application.
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Learning Beyond the Ledger
Rachel Jepson, a partner at a CPA firm, continues to seek out educational opportunities. She says, “You always need to be learning to keep up in the accounting profession."
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Numbers Don’t Lie
After Kirk Holt graduated from high school, he volunteered on the Hill Cumorah Pageant’s work crew, an opportunity his seminary teacher nominated him for.
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Adaptation, Ambition, and Accounting
When Masahiro Hokazono decided to attend college in the US, he couldn’t speak English at all. Now he has a full-time position at a Big Four firm in Chicago.
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Trusting in God’s Plans
When Jeffrey Pickerd graduated from BYU Marriott, he knew he wanted to return as a faculty member someday. Now a new associate professor in the SOA, Pickerd has seen the Lord’s hand guiding his journey back to BYU Marriott as he continued forward in faith.
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BYU Marriott Students Solve Union Pacific’s Unique Landscape Problem
As part of an on-campus internship, five BYU Marriott students helped Union Pacific figure out what to do with 8,000 palm trees at one of their transload facilities.
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BYU Marriott Welcomes New Faculty in 2024
At the start of the fall semester, Brigitte Madrian, dean of the BYU Marriott School of Business, welcomed 11 new faculty members to the college.
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From Solo Efforts to Global Ventures: A Path of Personal Growth
MAcc student Brenna Doyle has learned that working collaboratively fosters the personal and professional growth she is striving for.
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Four BYU Marriott Employees Receive Awards at 2024 University Conference
At the 2024 University Conference, four faculty and staff members at BYU Marriott received awards for their contributions to BYU.
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SOA Alumni Win Elijah Watt Sells Award for Exceptional Performance on CPA Exam
Last year’s CPA exam results were recently published, and BYU Marriott accounting graduates Elise Chase and Parker Jackson were on the list of award winners, continuing the SOA’s 16-year streak of alums who earned the award.
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Growing Ever Upward
Ron Worsham believes that persistent improvements can push the boundaries of what one originally thinks is possible. Worsham has seen the fruits of dedicated labor manifest over and over again in his 30 years at BYU Marriott—both in himself and in his students.
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BYU Marriott Announces Two Additions to the Deans Office
BYU Marriott School of Business dean Brigitte Madrian announced the addition of two new members to the Deans Office: Blair Morgan as administrative dean and Jeff Wilks as an associate dean, effective May 20 and July 1 respectively.
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Crossing the Finish Line
In a hands-on opportunity to apply accounting principles, SOA students worked together in pit crews to beat the clock and change the tires of retired NASCAR cars with their wits, high-power impact drills, and a wheeled pit stop jack.
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Learning in the Long Game
As soon as Hefolau Lotononga Lavaka heard about the Close Up Foundation’s Washington, DC, trip for high school students, she immediately knew two things: she wanted to participate, and she’d need to pay her own way.
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