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Accounting Business Management 2010–2014
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.
The old adage “He that travels far knows much” is an apt description for one Marriott School grad. Jeff Strong earned his undergraduate degree in business from the Marriott School in 1988 and hasn’t stopped learning or traveling since.
Mike Bond specializes in seeing eye to eye with people. Although his original plan in college was to become an optometrist, his focus shifted to business, and he hasn’t looked back.
Taxes probably wouldn't place very high on most people's lists of extreme activities, but it does for five BYU students.
The professorship, funded by Brent and Bonnie Jean Beesley, was created to recognize Hill's influence on students in Provo.
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.
As a foreign exchange student thousands of miles from home, Thomas Hung didn’t realize living in Utah would put his future career in finance on the fast track.
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.