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Gary Cornia’s face lights up when he talks about his work in taxes. “I love the topic I research,” he says. “Taxes are the funnest thing in the world. I love coming to work.”
Singled out from professors across the nation, BYU Professor and School of Accountancy Director Kevin Stocks was recognized this month for displaying excellence in accounting education.
Eleven Recognized for Significant Contributions
Few things excite accountants more than numbers. BYU Accounting Professor Kevin Stocks can now add another number to his list: the No. 1 accounting professor in Utah.
The Marriott School honored Kevin D. Stocks with the Outstanding Faculty Award, and fifteen others were also recognized for contributions.
Kevin Stocks, director of the Brigham Young University School of Accountancy, has been selected as president-elect of the American Accounting Association.
A BYU accounting professor has co-authored the first how-to guide to help accountants deal with new business acquisition standards.
One Marriott School professor has been working overtime to help clarify Utah's business tax laws.
Dr. Crawford is retiring in July and talks about his time at BYU and his future plans in this question-and-answer interview.
It took ten years and three invitations, but last summer finance professor Karl Diether made the move from Dartmouth College to BYU’s Department of Finance.
When there’s fresh powder on the mountains, you can expect Monte Swain to be out shredding the slopes. But the Marriott School of Management accounting professor wasn’t always so adept at carving on a snowboard.
You don’t mess with a Texan’s pickup truck, says BYU finance professor Andrew Holmes. So, needless to say, back in the 90s when someone broke into his truck, stole his checkbook, and started writing fraudulent checks in his name, he was pretty upset.
Eighteen weeks of training, 26.2 miles, an average heart rate of 136–there are many ways to measure a marathon.
Around the world in thirty days? Carolee Corbett checked that one off her bucketlist.
Jessi Valentine’s spirit animal is a chameleon.
“Career goals are worthless.”
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.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
No matter where life takes him, global supply chain professor Simon Greathead always seems to find his way back to Provo.
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.” Global supply chain management professor Scott Sampson keeps this quote from David Letterman hanging in his office. In essence, it’s what Sampson is all about.
Former department chair and current professor Steven Thorley reflects on the growth of the finance program.
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.
BYU Marriott finance professor Todd Mitton always strives to see the big picture, which enables him to spread his influence through the Tanner Building and beyond.
Assistant teaching professor Scott Webb believes the best way to teach is to fill the classroom's atmosphere with love and concern for each other.