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Students Accounting Marketing 2010–2014
BYU's Marriott School announced the 2012 Bateman Awards—the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
With more than three thousand students, the Marriott School of Management brings together some of BYU’s best and brightest from across the globe. I recently caught up with one of these stellar students, Nicol Pedraza, a sophomore marketing major and Portuguese minor from Mexico City. Pedraza talked about finding her path to BYU, her experience at the Marriott School, and her plans for the future.
When Jeff Bjorkman isn’t reading the unabridged version of Les Misérables, camping outdoors, or trying to recreate cuisine he’s sampled abroad, he is knee-deep in accounting projects with the Marriott School’s MAcc program. His experiences as a student may leave you wishing you too were an accountant.
Students learned proper sales techniques and valuable lessons in preparation for sales competition.
After standing on one foot while trying to decide which printer to buy, students hobble out of 340 TNRB with some extra credit but without the slightest clue what their answers will be used for.
The Marriott School honored the winners of the 2013 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected by students.
The third annual competition will teach students how to apply ethical standards in their future professions.
The VITA lab opens this week to provide free tax assistance to the community and hands-on training to student volunteers.
A Marriott School accounting team recently earned 2nd place and a $5,000 prize at the Deloitte National Audit Case Competition.
Signs mark the entrance: Production Area, Authorized Personnel Only. Inside, observers stand behind a line of caution tape, taking notes intently. In front of them a rumbling machine shuffles orange, green, and yellow balls along conveyor belts, through tubes, and down ramps.
With laptops charged, whiteboards cleared, and markers ready, it’s now up to the Executive MBA students’ careful positioning and strategic thinking to navigate the intricacies of a simulated marketplace. 
Most students usually work a side job, but not many spend their free time running a million-dollar company.
Marriott School announces the winners of the 2011 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
Taxes probably wouldn't place very high on most people's lists of extreme activities, but it does for five BYU students.
CIS students from across the globe experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they visited with LDS Church leaders.
Accounting students traded in number crunchers for nail guns, levels and hand saws for Habitat for Humanity.
This class doesn’t have a textbook. In fact, some of the required reading comes from Wikipedia, a taboo for just about any other class on campus. But the syllabus states it bluntly: “Text: none; it would be outdated anyway.”
Everyone knows about the deceptive salesperson stereotype. But a new curriculum shows students sales and integrity aren't mutually exclusive.
A team of BYU undergrads came home with the first-place title from the inaugural Duff & Phelps National Case Study Competition.