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Alumni Spotlight Accounting Information Systems 2000–2004
When Rob Smoot earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to shout it from the mountaintops. Smoot celebrated the culmination of his education by leading forty fellow students to Africa's highest point the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro 19,341 feet above the vast African plains.
Alexis H. Johanson would never have guessed that an internship with a tractor company would lead her to a job more than two thousand miles from her home in Cedar Hills, Utah.
For the Driggs brothers running a business with relatives is not only a family affair, it’s something in their blood.
Though she doesn’t have blonde pigtails, a lisp, or 1970s clothes, Cindy Brighton Andersen’s husband once confused her with Cindy Brady.
Take one accounting alumna, add about fifty more women, one trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and what do you get? The Miss America Pageant.
Sometimes serious cramming sessions do pay off. Upon graduating with his MAcc, R. Marcus Young took a consulting job in Portland, Oregon. When CPA exam season came, he wasn’t even sure he was going to take it until his brother-in-law convinced him to.
Many people would be content with running the semifinals of the 100x4 meter relay in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Not Kenneth Andam; he plans to compete again in the 2004 games and bring home a medal. However, his wins aren't only on the track. He is lapping competitors on the business fast track as well. Andam earned a double BS in information systems and economics from BYU in 2000 and is now a graduate student at BYU studying mass communications. His education gives him the technical and analytical skills he needs to compete in the global economy.