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Accounting 2023 2018 2017
As a twelve-year-old boy, John Southcott started mowing lawns so he could buy paintball equipment. However, before ever firing his hard-earned munition, Southcott habitually took apart each gun he bought, laying out all the pieces in order to understand how the gun worked.
Traveling to the Big Apple to compete in a big competition, three students came away with big connections and a big check.
School of Accountancy professor Cassy Budd shared personal stories during Tuesday's school-wide devotional about recognizing the strength that comes from acknowledging personal weaknesses.
The BYU MBA program maintained its national status in the U.S. News World Report ranking, coming in at No. 34 in the country.
The BYU Marriott School has again earned AACSB accreditation, a hallmark of excellence in business education given to less than 5 percent of the world's business schools.
By the numbers, Kim Chi Pham is an outlier. But it was a love of numbers that carried her through homesickness, past language barriers, and eventually placed her at the top of her field.
Alfred Gantner, cofounder of Partners Group and an MBA alum, shared his insights on a balanced life as the featured speaker at convocation on 28 April.
Timing is everything that's just one of his grandfather's lessons accounting alum Greg Drennan has implemented on his career as a successful entrepreneur in the self-storage business.
With a competitive pass rate and record scores, it's no surprise that BYU's student club won the Clark Johnson Award and a $5,000 grant.
Two Marriott School alumni were initiated into one of the most exclusive groups in the accounting world as recipients of the Elijah Watt Sells Award.
David Wood, associate professor of accountancy, received the 2017 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association. The award is his seventh AAA best paper award overall.
The junior core may elicit a bevy of emotions, but this group of accounting students associates it with outdoor fun and team-building.
When senior MAcc student Josey Hedquist tells her classmates she's been running around like crazy all day, she's actually being quite literal.
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.