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BYU Marriott faculty members are deeply committed to both top-tier research and individual student success which creates a distinctive learning environment.
Since losing his mom at just eight years old, professor Josh Lee has relied on a cassette tape recording she left him to guide him throughout his life that led him back to BYU Marriott.

A BYU Marriott team of two MAcc students and two MBA students took first place at this year's statewide Association for Corporate Growth Cup.

At first glance, School of Accountancy alumna Jennifer Notley doesn't seem much different from many other mothers. But what you don't know is that she's also a singer and songwriter, vocal coach, fitness instructor, and CPA all at the same time.
With his impactful research record, years of academic service, and distinguished publication history, BYU Marriott School of Business Associate Dean Steve Glover was an obvious choice for the Outstanding Audit Educator Award.
Undergraduates typically don't have to worry about fulfilling a contract with the Department of Defense managing a drone company's mistakes. But that's exactly what two BYU Marriott students were tasked with doing.
BYU Marriott sent five students to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, for the Venture Capital and Investment Competition. For the second year in a row, BYU came out on top, winning both the regional and national competitions.
Stan Wilson never expected to return to BYU after graduating in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in accounting, but life has taught him to embrace the unexpected.
Monte Swain feels a rush when standing at the front of a classroom. That rush has energized him for nearly 30 years of teaching at BYU Marriott.
The stress of preparing a case study while still completing junior core accounting assignments was not a deterrent for five BYU Marriott students, who won the 2018 EY Beam Abroad Case Competition and a free trip to Iceland.
A new internship program through Cardinal Health provides pre-accounting students with hands-on experience before they start the program.
In April 2017, United Airlines faced a public relations crisis when a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight. To mitigate public outrage, the company made changes to its policies surrounding overbooked flights. However, some customers remained skeptical that the changes would actually be carried out.
The junior core may elicit a bevy of emotions, but this group of accounting students associates it with outdoor fun and team-building.
With a competitive pass rate and record scores, it's no surprise that BYU's student club won the Clark Johnson Award and a $5,000 grant.
By the numbers, Kim Chi Pham is an outlier. But it was a love of numbers that carried her through homesickness, past language barriers, and eventually placed her at the top of her field.
After growing up in Kingsburg, California, new BYU School of Accountancy professor Melissa Western completed her undergraduate studies in neighboring Fresno. She wasn’t sure what she wanted to major in, but many of her track teammates were business students. They encouraged her to try out an accounting class, which she did—and she fell in love.
“Career goals are worthless.”
Traveling to the Big Apple to compete in a big competition, three students came away with big connections and a big check.
Accountancy students Cory Hinds and Kim Chi Pham earned high honors by ranking in the top ten nationally among takers of the CMA exam.
A School of Accountancy team recently took what they learned in class to cash in at the Deloitte National Audit Case Competition.
Eighteen weeks of training, 26.2 miles, an average heart rate of 136–there are many ways to measure a marathon.
With Brigham Young University School of Accountancy students to help, your taxes don't have to be the stress of the season.
Brigham Young University School of Accountancy students earned a top honor at the national Deloitte FanTAXtic Competition.
It started out as a nutty idea, says Jeff Wilks, director of the School of Accountancy. How could students really dive into the topics that current accounting professionals are dealing with?