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When Utah’s Office of the State Auditor wanted to create an early-warning system to identify cities with weakening fiscal health, state officials applied to be a client in BYU Marriott’s GoodMeasure program.
It seems like only a few years ago that I sat where you are sitting. I was an English major, and that meant that I liked reading and writing. It also meant that I had no idea what I was going to do with my career.
The Sound of Music swept the box office, Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands to Alabama’s capital, and the first commercial satellite launched into orbit. The year was 1965, and the BYU MPA students of the inaugural class were collecting their diplomas and preparing to embody the credo “Enter to learn; go forth to serve.”
Not long after putting their pencils down on the last bubble sheet, many Marriott School students say good-bye to their final exams and to Y Mountain, leaving Provo in pursuit of internships and experience. 
Looking Back–A Century Since His Birth
Ken Batson has been a CPA for thirty-two years getting up, eating breakfast, and heading to work. A partner at Sharp, Thunstrom, & Batson, a small accounting firm in La Mesa, California, Batson was complacent as a CPA. He'd heard the warnings about massive changes coming to his
Most people who work for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) leave with the same going-away gift: a frame containing all the covers of the standards they helped publish while there.