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Brigham Young University's Marriott School was listed as one of the top programs for delivering the fastest return on investment by Forbes and as one of the leading international business schools by Financial Times.
Financial Times, London's premier financial newspaper, ranked the Marriott School as the ninth-best business school for its finance program in a survey comparing business schools covering five continents. Overall, the Marriott School was ranked 71st in the world for its international education.
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."
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.
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.
Touting the fastest payback in the nation, Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management is a steal according to BusinessWeek’s new ranking of the best b-schools. The magazine reports that BYU’s MBA graduates take only 3.5 years to recoup their investment in lost work and tuition.
Three professors at BYU’s Marriott School hope their e-business accounting book will give students the upper hand when it comes to electronic commerce. Steven M. Glover, Stephen W. Liddle and Douglas Prawitt’s book, E-Business: Principles and Strategies for Accountants, was written to prepare accounting students to meet the demands of a business world being transformed by technology. Marriott School professors will begin using the book winter semester as a supplement.
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.
Forget waiting for this year’s tax refund. For the first time ever, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) center at Brigham Young University can help you file your taxes electronically – cutting the wait for your refund by as much as two weeks.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) recognized the educational accomplishments of Brigham Young University professor W. Steve Albrecht with its most prestigious educators award last month.
Shannon Francis edged into a seat in the back of her Marriott School Executive MBA classroom, trying not to draw attention to herself since she was among the few not wearing a suit. "Then about twenty minutes late, Steven waltzed in the door in rumpled, wrinkled casual attire, and I said to myself, ‘We could get along!'" Besides that, Shannon was sure that it meant he was single.
Most people who work for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) leave with the same going-away gift: a frame containing all the covers of the standards they helped publish while there.
W. Steve Albrecht, associate dean of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management, has not only been president of the American Accounting Association and an expert witness in the Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud case but also one of the university’s top faculty. Albrecht was recently recognized with the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, BYU’s most prestigious faculty honor.
The Marriott School of Management's passion for excellence and progress has once again earned national recognition. Public Accounting Report and the U.S. News & World Report ranked Brigham Young University's undergraduate accounting program third and sixth respectively in the nation for the second straight year.
Manhattan Investment Banker Credits BYU Scholarships For Career Success For someone who always wanted to be a doctor, a position as vice president of JP Morgan Chase & Co., wasn’t exactly what investment banker Katherine Lum had in mind. She lives and works in Manhattan and is responsible for assisting clients in raising debt securities in the private placement market. Depending on the flow of deals, Lum has been known to work up to twenty-hour days. What keeps her motivated? “I truly enjoy my job,” she said.
For Wyman Roberts, vacationing at Universal Studios proved to be so much fun that he decided to land a career in the industry. Roberts has been appointed executive vice president of marketing—chief marketing officer—for Universal Studios Recreation Group.
Brigham Young University offers MBA students more bang for the buck than any other regional school. The Marriott School of Management's MBA program was ranked number one among regional business schools in the 15 October issue of Forbes. The magazine surveyed 20,000 graduates from 104 top national and international business schools.
Beginning Fall 2002, students at Brigham Young University will be able to earn a bachelor's of science degree in information systems. The new major, offered through the Marriott School of Management, will replace the information-systems emphasis in the business-management program.
Ken Batson has been a CPA for thirty-two years getting up, eating breakfast, and heading to work. A partner at Sharp, Thunstrom, & Batson, a small accounting firm in La Mesa, California, Batson was complacent as a CPA. He'd heard the warnings about massive changes coming to his
Intel business analyst Jason Packham said there might be a correlation between his winnings on ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and his BYU education. One question asked on the show was, "In which of these languages is the first-person singular subject pronoun always capitalized?" Packham gave the correct answer: English.
When Rob Smoot earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to shout it from the mountaintops. Smoot celebrated the culmination of his education by leading forty fellow students to Africa's highest point the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro 19,341 feet above the vast African plains.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University named eight MBA candidates as its 2002 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
So what do you do when the crowds dissipate, the athletes take their medals home and you’re left with empty multi-million-dollar Olympic facilities?
The Marriott School of Management's Rollins Center for eBusiness, in connection with LexisNexis and WebCE.com, will stream three business lectures in April to determine the feasibility of making the school's ebusiness, entrepreneurial, executive and MBA lectures available on the Web next fall.