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Alumni Experiences Faculty Research Accounting Information Systems
Information systems professors at BYU have created a technology using JavaScript that can detect online identity fraud simply by measuring interaction behaviors like keystroke speed.
How Professors Are Embracing ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
Accounting faculty and students put ChatGPT to the test. The researchers say that while it still has work to do in the realm of accounting, it’s a game changer that will change the way everyone teaches and learns — for the better.
In a recent study, BYU Marriott professor Tim Seidel and colleagues at other universities found that those who worked at Arthur Andersen during the Enron scandal may be better off for the experience.
The global supply chain management program recently recognized BYU Marriott accounting alum Brian Hancock with the Global Supply Chain Excellence Award.
BYU Marriott accounting alumni Kathrine Jensen and Jared Nielsen recently received one of the most prestigious recognitions in accounting: the Elijah Watt Sells Award.
This past April, four graduates of the School of Accountancy were recipients of the 2019 Elijah Watt Sells Award, which is given to individuals who score above a 95.5 average across all four sections of the CPA exam.

Congress has authorized roughly $3 trillion in COVID-19 relief assistance. With more relief money on the way, a new study led by two SOA professors found these newly available funds led to a significant surge in health sector lobbying activity.
Nearly three hundred attendees convened in Provo for a weekend of reconnecting at the School of Accountancy conference.
Is the way we bark out orders to digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant making us less polite? Prompted by growing concerns, two BYU information systems researchers decided to ask.
Last September, over ninety thousand of the brightest minds in accounting sat down to take a sixteen-hour-long exam to become certified public accountants. With less than fifty-eight percent of participants passing annually, six BYU Marriott.
New research discovers employees who view pornography aren't just costing companies millions of dollars in wasted time, they're causing harm to the company.
Meg Rodeback didn't even know the Priscilla S. Payne Outstanding Student Performance Award existed before she earned it in August.
Employee wellness programs are popular among businesses seeking to increase productivity and cut health care costs. New research from BYU Marriott professors sheds light on how to possibly motivate employees to participate in these programs.
Using brain data, eye-tracking data and field-study data, a group of BYU Marriott researchers have confirmed something about our interaction with security warnings on computers and phones: the more we see them, the more we tune them out.
You may think twice before listing "multitasking" as a skill on your resume due to top-notch research performed by BYU professors on security warnings.
Within a two-year span, five information systems classmates left BYU to start their careers—only to find themselves working side-by-side once again.
David Wood, associate professor of accountancy, received the 2017 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association. The award is his seventh AAA best paper award overall.
Samuel C. Dunn, former senior vice president for Walmart and 1982 BYU accounting alumnus, was honored with the Marriott School of Management Alumni Achievement Award.
Software developers listen up: if you want people to pay attention to your security warnings on their computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times.
You’re on the web, responding to an email or watching a YouTube video, when a message pops up on your browser. Do you read it, or do you close the window and get back to what you were doing?
Three days. Four major events. More than 200 attendees.
In new research, professor Jeffrey Jenkins can tell if you're angry by the way you move a computer mouse.
Can watching a violent movie make you more likely to lie, cheat or steal? What about reading a violent book?