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The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announces ten MBA candidates as its 2004 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
MBA Students Win Thunderbird Innovation Challenge
In an economy characterized by receding retirement funds and a volatile stock market, a group of BYU MBA students beat the odds – and 18 other universities - to earn a 32 percent return on their portfolio. Sponsors of the competition, brokerage firm D.A. Davidson & Co., awarded the Marriott School's Peery Institute with a $7,000 check for successfully managing the company's $50,000 investment portfolio throughout last year.
A class of Marriott School students has established the university’s first-ever endowed scholarship funded by a single class. With the help of matching contributions from the BYU Annual Fund campaign, the students contributed enough to form a scholarship endowment of $30,000.
Despite being one teammate short, arriving at the competition with only five minutes to spare and having to begin planning their case in a car by flashlight, a team of three students from BYU’s Marriott School recently placed second at an international business ethics competition.
A Marriott School undergraduate team recently placed first and a graduate team placed second at the national Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition—beating out other top accounting schools including University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois and University of Georgia. For the seventh time in the twelve-year history of the competition, both Marriott School teams placed among the top three in the graduate and undergraduate division—an unparalleled accomplishment.
A team of four accounting graduate students from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School won first place in the national Deloitte & Touche Tax Challenge competition. The school’s undergraduate team placed second in a separate division.
Accounting students at Brigham Young University have done it again! For the third consecutive year, Marriott School graduate and undergraduate teams placed among the top three schools at the Arthur Andersen National Tax Challenge.
Five accounting students from the Marriott School at Brigham Young University cooly handled the pressures faced by auditors — placing second in national competition. Graduate students Brent Pugh, Troy Sheen, Heather Madsen, Josh Rowley and Ryan Oviatt participated in the Deloitte & Touche Foundation’s Fifth Annual National Student Case Study Seminar. The seminar placed teams in practical business settings with case studies developed by the firm’s accounting research department.
Vadim Ovchinnikov, a second-year master of accountancy (MAcc) student from Russia, has been selected as one of six students selected to work with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 2001. Ovchinnikov is one of only a handful of foreign students and the first Russian to work with the board. He begins his one-year appointment as a technical assistant with the FASB in January.
Sabita Tuladhar is convinced she paid more taxes last year than she should have. But this year she says that won't happen. Tuladhar is a senior at the Marriott School majoring in information systems from Kathmandu, Nepal. "Sometimes it's really confusing," she admits, "and I've been using the easy form."