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Accounting Marketing 2010–2014
Everyone knows about the deceptive salesperson stereotype. But a new curriculum shows students sales and integrity aren't mutually exclusive.
This class doesn’t have a textbook. In fact, some of the required reading comes from Wikipedia, a taboo for just about any other class on campus. But the syllabus states it bluntly: “Text: none; it would be outdated anyway.”
Most accountants spend their days ensuring financial records are up to standards. But for a handful of BYU MAcc grads, it's a different story.
A team of BYU undergrads came home with the first-place title from the inaugural Duff & Phelps National Case Study Competition.
BYU is ranked 75th in the 2011 edition of U.S. News's "America's Best Colleges," with the Marriott School coming in at 34th.
BYU is ranked No. 11 in the country for schools whose graduates were the top-rated by recruiters, the WSJ reported.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review place BYU No. 4 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, employees stay at their jobs for an average of 4.1 years. Like most people, Dennis Malloy never expected to stay at his first auditing firm for more than a few years, let alone thirty, but he found his niche at KPMG and never left.
How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks. 
Most students usually work a side job, but not many spend their free time running a million-dollar company.
Accounting students traded in number crunchers for nail guns, levels and hand saws for Habitat for Humanity.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
BYU is being recognized as a business startup factory — churning out hundreds of student-run ventures each year.
CIS students from across the globe experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they visited with LDS Church leaders.
With laptops charged, whiteboards cleared, and markers ready, it’s now up to the Executive MBA students’ careful positioning and strategic thinking to navigate the intricacies of a simulated marketplace. 
Taxes probably wouldn't place very high on most people's lists of extreme activities, but it does for five BYU students.
Good communicators are supposed to work behind the scenes, but sometimes they can't help getting pulled on stage.
The Marriott School honored Michael Swenson as its 2011 Outstanding Faculty. Fourteen others were also recognized.
Marriott School announces the winners of the 2011 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
The idea had always glowed—however faintly—in the back of Steve Oldham’s mind. He jokes about it now, saying that just like every other missionary who returns from Brazil, he came home with dreams of starting his own Brazilian steakhouse.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
Doug Prawitt, the Glen Ardis Professor of Accountancy in the Marriott School of Management, will give the Brigham Young University devotional Tuesday, July 19, at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.
Dean Gary Cornia appointed Monte Swain to serve as the new associate director of the MBA program.
Kay Stice was recently awarded the prestigious Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award.