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With the help of a BYU Marriott scholarship and through her own determination, accounting alum Brittany Drury Brown has thrived, including starting a business that provides opportunities for stay-at-home parents.
When Ethan Kyo Choi wrapped up his LDS mission to South Korea and headed home to Australia, he knew he wasn’t going to stay long. Deciding to study business, he soon purchased a one-way ticket to Utah to study at BYU Marriott.
Doug Winters won't say accounting is always exciting. But with the title forensic accountant and the discovery of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme on his career certainly hasn't been a snooze fest.
In April 2017, United Airlines faced a public relations crisis when a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight. To mitigate public outrage, the company made changes to its policies surrounding overbooked flights. However, some customers remained skeptical that the changes would actually be carried out.
As a recruiting trip coordinator, accounting senior Hunter Wixom quite literally gives accounting students a foot in the door at some of the top companies in the country.
Monte Swain feels a rush when standing at the front of a classroom. That rush has energized him for nearly 30 years of teaching at BYU Marriott.
Laura Warner Torgesen's heritage in academia, including BYU legend Karl G. Maeser, have led her to blaze a pioneering path of her own.
Accounting alum Jason Graham lost his home during Hurricane Harvey, but he gained stronger relationships with others and a greater appreciation for the unexpected.
BYU received the ICMA Board of Regents Corporate Recognition Award for supporting the CMA program and helping its students succeed.
As an undeclared freshman at BYU, Susan Parker Sanders was feeling pressure to decide on a major. Her uncle worked for GTE Financial and suggested to his math-savvy niece that she consider accounting; he even set up an appointment for her to meet with a professor in BYU Marriott’s School of Accountancy.
Stan Wilson never expected to return to BYU after graduating in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in accounting, but life has taught him to embrace the unexpected.
A new internship program through Cardinal Health provides pre-accounting students with hands-on experience before they start the program.
The stress of preparing a case study while still completing junior core accounting assignments was not a deterrent for five BYU Marriott students, who won the 2018 EY Beam Abroad Case Competition and a free trip to Iceland.
Meg Rodeback didn't even know the Priscilla S. Payne Outstanding Student Performance Award existed before she earned it in August.
The global supply chain management program recently recognized BYU Marriott accounting alum Brian Hancock with the Global Supply Chain Excellence Award.
Troy K. Lewis, an associate teaching professor in the School of Accountancy at BYU Marriott, recently received the 2021 Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award.
Erin Gilbert is passionate about helping underrepresented students overcome obstacles so they can receive more educational opportunities.
In a recent study, BYU Marriott professor Tim Seidel and colleagues at other universities found that those who worked at Arthur Andersen during the Enron scandal may be better off for the experience.
Thanks to a sponsorship program run through the Global Business Center, international student Carmela Bristain recently completed the MAcc program at BYU Marriott.
Although BYU Marriott accounting professor Mike Drake was raised in Nevada, he calls BYU home.
SOA alumnus Daniel Leslie is an example of the incredible things that can be accomplished when one is willing to pivot their life plans.
Nine students were recently honored as 2022 Bateman Award recipients for their excellence both inside and outside the classroom.
Joseph Appiah, an alum of the School of Accountancy at BYU Marriott, is grateful\ for the early mornings of his youth that helped him develop beneficial lifelong habits.
Brooke Bradford, the events and programs coordinator for the School of Accountancy (SOA) at BYU Marriott, helps bring accounting students, faculty, and alumni together.