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Student Experiences Accounting 2010–2014 2000–2004
Hard work and dedication paid off for four BYU MAcc students who took first place at the IMA National Case Competition.
Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management Center.
The third annual competition will teach students how to apply ethical standards in their future professions.
The VITA lab opens this week to provide free tax assistance to the community and hands-on training to student volunteers.
A Marriott School accounting team recently earned 2nd place and a $5,000 prize at the Deloitte National Audit Case Competition.
BYU's Marriott School announced the 2012 Bateman Awards—the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
Signs mark the entrance: Production Area, Authorized Personnel Only. Inside, observers stand behind a line of caution tape, taking notes intently. In front of them a rumbling machine shuffles orange, green, and yellow balls along conveyor belts, through tubes, and down ramps.
Reaching out to local high school students helped BYU's Beta Alpha Psi chapter stand out from 270 international applicants.
CIS students from across the globe experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they visited with LDS Church leaders.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
Accounting students traded in number crunchers for nail guns, levels and hand saws for Habitat for Humanity.
A team of BYU undergrads came home with the first-place title from the inaugural Duff & Phelps National Case Study 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."