Editor's note: Eccles Ambassador Jeff Letsinger gives students advice about how to survive during finals at The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. Finals can be a stressful and expensive time for students. We are trying to squeeze out every last minute of available study time before we show up for finals. In the process, we make exceptions and dig into our wallets or purses [...]
On Feb. 18, the School of Accounting held its annual Out of State Panel event for both Undergrad Accounting majors and MAcc students. Students came to learn how other couples moved successfully from Salt Lake City to around the country and internationally. Nathan and Brooke Pace currently reside in Austin, Texas, and Nate works for PwC. Chad and Sarah Whitehead currently reside in San Diego, California, [...]
Melissa Lewis-Western, assistant professor of accounting at the Eccles School, recently returned from the Western Region Meeting of the American Accounting Association. There, she was honored with a best paper award. Her paper, “Competing reporting objectives and financial reporting quality” that she co-wrote with Adrienna Huffman, beat out more than 80 papers to win the top honor. The paper looked at the multiple incentives [...]
The American Institute of CPAs has announced the winners of the 2014 Elijah Watt Sells Award, and we are pleased to inform you that a David Eccles School of Business graduate, Corrine Sudbury, is on the list. Out of the 91,384 people who took the Uniform CPA Exam in 2014, only 60 qualified for the award—that’s less than 1 for every 1,500 people who [...]
The David Eccles School of Business is comprised of an abundance of outstanding faculty and staff, and one of our outstanding faculty members is about to become even more so. On April 23, Dr. Martha Eining will be honored at Oklahoma State University’s Wilton T. Anderson Hall of Fame Awards Banquet with the Distinguished Alumni Award, and she will be inducted into the School [...]
Helena Paulos is an undergraduate Accounting major who will graduate in the spring of 2015. To help get her ready for post-graduation life, she's working this summer on an internship at Overstock.com. She took the time to answer a few questions from Brianna Koucos, senior career counselor in the Undergraduate Career Management Center, about her experience: 1. What is something new that you learned [...]
Brianna Koucos, a senior career counselor with the Undergraduate Career Management Center, traveled recently with two groups of students to visit Grant Thornton offices in Paris and the Bay Area. Here, she writes a bit about the trips: The David Eccles School of Business students made two trips to Grant Thornton this spring. The first was in Paris, France, where the Business Scholars met [...]
Marci Butterfield, an associate professor at the David Eccles School of Business's School of Accounting, was recently named an Outstanding Faculty Advisor award winner by Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting honor society for students and professionals that boasts more than 300 chapters on college campuses. Butterfield is one of only four winners of the honor from across the country, and will collect a [...]
Education can take you to some unusual places, and affect you in atypical ways—like, say, taking the stand in the courtroom of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge as expert witnesses for the prosecution AND the defense. Two students in Dr. Martha Eining’s Fraud and Forensic Accounting class, Chase Potter and Mariela Zhivkova (pictured below), recently had just that experience in the courtroom of Justice [...]