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David A. Wood has been selected by The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation as the recipient of the 2004 Esther R. Sawyer Scholarship Award.
This December, John Montgomery will graduate from BYU with not only a master in accountancy on his resume but also the highest student score on the Certified Internal Auditor’s exam.
A Brigham Young University graduate student and alumnus both earned kudos for their top-scoring performances on the Certified Internal Auditor exam administered by the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Taxes probably wouldn't place very high on most people's lists of extreme activities, but it does for five BYU students.
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.
Michael Hatch, a recent finance graduate, was honored at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Volleyball Championship for his academic achievements.
School of Accountancy graduate Kevin Steed won the Student Manuscript Award and Professor Monte Swain received the R. Lee Brummet Distinguished Award for Educators.
Formerly ready to dabble in the arts, Erika Mahterian has become a passionate advocate for the opportunities to be found in the finance program.
Go. Learn. Become Global. The slogan for BYU’s Global Management Center (GMC) is something Stephen Shepherd, a senior at BYU studying finance and Portuguese, takes seriously. From Brazil to the United States and back to Brazil, Shepherd hops to and fro in an effort to gain global experience and stand out from other students.
Although senior Sarah Lyman has always loved the real estate business, she never expected to find a home for that passion while studying finance.
When senior MAcc student Josey Hedquist tells her classmates she's been running around like crazy all day, she's actually being quite literal.
It was 2 a.m. on Feb. 18, and Ryan Montgomery was 64 miles into a 100-mile footrace through the snowy tundra and sub-zero temps of Big Lake, Alaska.
As a recruiting trip coordinator, accounting senior Hunter Wixom quite literally gives accounting students a foot in the door at some of the top companies in the country.
As a child growing up in Recife, Brazil, Thiago Gomes never would have believed he would be studying at BYU Marriott with a job offer in New York.
Born in a Thailand refugee camp and raised in Cambodia by her sister, Channika "Nika" Noun never expected to complete any kind of education. Now, she prepares to graduate from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business.
Entrepreneurs often dream of successful business endeavors; however, BYU Marriott accounting senior Tate Laing's first business idea literally came to him in a dream.
Sam Aden attended a private Christian school as a child and never even heard the name Brigham Young University until he was sixteen years old. Once he discovered BYU Marriott's finance program, however, Aden knew BYU was the right fit for him.
For BYU Marriott accounting major Dmitrii Liu, there are big plans on the horizon for the next few years.
A Nike advertisement featuring Serena Williams that adorned the Los Angeles skyline inspired accounting student Daphne Armstrong to come back to BYU Marriott.

From selling peanuts on the streets of Nigeria to help provide for her family to moving to the United States alone at the age of nineteen with only fifty dollars in her pocket, Patience Atebata isn't letting her past define her future.

Getting the highest CMA score worldwide is no easy feat, but for BYU Marriott masters of accounting student Josh Mortensen, studying for the CMA exam was like preparing for one of his competitive piano competitions; daunting but rewarding.

When asked what real estate is, most people will say the topic has to deal with something about the home-buying process. BYU Marriott finance senior Dallin Curriden challenges that simple explanation.

BYU Marriott SOA student Rocky Wang crossed oceans to follow his path to BYU. Now, he strives to unite his fellow students as a student leader of the SOA alumni networking system, Ohana.

When BYU Marriott finance major Jack Abumanneh flew to the United States to begin his BYU education, all he had was what he could carry in a single suitcase and backpack.