accounting Archives - The David Eccles School of Business

Eccles School faculty member honored with prestigious De la Vega Prize

Huge congratulations are in order for Roger Silvers, who has been awarded the prestigious De la Vega Prize from the Federation of European Securities Exchanges. Silvers, an assistant professor of Accounting, received the prize for his paper "Does regulatory cooperation help integrate equity markets?" Here's what the committee had to say: "The paper studies how cooperative arrangements between securities regulators facilitate market integration. Cooperation [...]

Jerry Norton2022-12-12T10:01:57-07:00June 5th, 2020|

Bob Allen elected to American Accounting Association Board of Directors

Huge congratulations are in order for Bob Allen, professor of Accounting. He was just elected as the President-Elect of the American Accounting Association. Allen's three-year term will begin at the AAA annual meeting, scheduled for early August in Atlanta. Allen is a mainstay of the Eccles School Accounting department, educating hundreds of students each year. His research has been published widely in peer-reviewed journals, [...]

Jerry Norton2022-12-09T16:29:38-07:00April 16th, 2020|

U.S. News rankings: Eccles School undergrad Entrepreneurship program No. 15

The undergraduate Entrepreneurship program at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has earned the No. 15 spot in the 2019 list of Best Undergraduate Business Programs in U.S. News and World Report. The program was ranked No. 8 for state schools. “We are thrilled to be recognized as a top-15 school for Entrepreneurship,” said Troy D’Ambrosio, the executive director [...]

Jerry Norton2023-03-16T17:44:15-06:00September 26th, 2018|

Professor Robert D. Allen honored with award from the American Accounting Association

Time and time again, our professors at the David Eccles School of Business prove to be some of the most talented educators around, and professor Robert D. Allen is proof. This month, the American Accounting Association (AAA) honored him as the recipient of the 2018 American Accounting Association/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize. The AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation [...]

Jerry Norton2018-06-22T09:20:51-06:00June 21st, 2018|

Eccles School accounting faculty authors IMA global salary survey

Each year the Institute of Management Accountants publishes its Global Salary Survey, and this year the huge honor of writing the survey went to our own Shannon Charles. Check out the survey in Strategic Finance. Congratulation on the well-deserved honor, Dr. Charles!

Jerry Norton2018-03-26T09:58:46-06:00March 23rd, 2018|

MAcc Program Happenings and Opportunities for Students

At the David Eccles School of Business, we keep a careful pulse on industry happenings, student feedback and opportunities for up-and-coming undergraduates. Recently, the Master of Accounting (MAcc) program has made a few programmatic changes in order to better align certain aspects of the program with industry and student needs. Part-Time Scholarships Now Available Fall 2018 part-time students will be eligible for scholarship consideration. [...]

Dale Frost2023-03-16T17:47:18-06:00December 8th, 2017|

MAcc Program Ranked Top-Ten in the West; Undergraduate program Increases Four Spots

The Master of Accounting program at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business earned a top-10 ranking in the Western region. Public Accounting Report named the MAcc program No. 8 in the West and No. 34 in the U.S. in the 2017 Annual Professor’s Survey. The Eccles undergraduate accounting program was also ranked, coming in at No. 8 in the West and [...]

Dale Frost2017-12-15T12:32:44-07:00October 30th, 2017|

10 feelings all Eccles School students have during the Accounting 3600 project

If you are admitted into Upper Division at the David Eccles School of Business, at some point you will take the ACCT 3600 course. This course is a continuation of what you learned in Accounting 2600, but with more applied learning. This means you will do the accounting books for a company for a year, using only a year's worth of journal entries, previous years of income statements [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:35-07:00March 3rd, 2017|

10 Things Eccles Students can be thankful for

It’s that time of the year again! It’s a season filled with family, friends, giving and appreciation. We hope that everyone takes the time to be appreciative and acknowledge what you have to be grateful for and people to spend time with. While there are countless things to be thankful for, here are 10 things Eccles Students specifically should be grateful for: Accounting 3600 [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:43-07:00November 24th, 2016|

Aaron Beam recounts lessons learned from ethics gaffe that led to prison

It is easy to be tempted to walk away from ethics when riches are dangled in front of you, Aaron Beam, a felon and former CFO of HealthSouth told students in the Bill and Pat Child Family Community Hall of the SFEBB on Sept. 27. Beam, who spent three months in prison after being convicted of bank fraud after being partly responsible for HealthSouth’s scheme to inflate profit [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:49-07:00October 6th, 2016|