Accounting Calendar'
Scheduled for Fall 2009:
September 8 - Ice cream social and first meeting for our
new student IMA chapter
September 10 - Missouri Society of CPAs Kansas City Chapter Career Night
September 22 - Open House at KPM, CPAs in Springfield
September 23 - Elliott, Robinson, CPAs --Interview Accounting Majors on campus
September 25 -BKD, CPAs --Interview Accounting Majors on campus
September 30 - The Whitlock Company, CPAs - Interview Accounting Majors on campus
October 9- SBU COBACS Career & Internship Fair
October 10 - SBU Accounting Alumni Homecoming Reunion, 11 a.m.
November - Accounting Club/IMA Chapter Fall Cookout
On campus interviews with: Elliot, Robinson, CPAs; BKD,
KPM and the Whitlock Company
Field Trip to KPM and Steak-n-Shake
SBU Accounting Alumni Homecoming Reunion, October 10
HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSSED FALL 2008 - SPRING 2009
September 9 - MSCPA College Accounting Career Event, St. Louis
September 24- Elliott, Robinson, CPAs --Interview Accounting Majors on campus
September 26 - BKD, CPAs --Interview Accounting Majors on campus
September 30 --KPM, CPAs --Interview Accounting Majors on campus
October 11 - SBU Accounting Alumni Homecoming Reunion, 11:00 a.m. Taylor 119
October 21 - MSCPA College Accounting Career Event, Kansas City
March - SBU COBACS Career Fair and Missouri State Auditor Interviews
April - MSCPA "Spring to Success" Seminar, Kansas City
May - Accounting Club Filed to Trip to BKD, Steak-n-Shake, and Springfield Cardinals Game
HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED SPRING 2008
January 23 - Alumni James Boutwell, CIA, Speaks to auditing class
February 14 - BIG Career Fair in Springfield
February 28 - Tax Help Night (see below)
| Kalena Kenney helps
with a student's taxes while Jan Henbest grabs a completed return off the printer. Kalena now works at Elliott Robinson CPAs in Springfield. |
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March - Annual Spring Bowling Bonanza! / State Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) Contest (see below)
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PBL State Winner in Accounting, Toni
Wade Congratulations! Toni is now an auditor with the Missouri State Auditors Office. |
March 7 - SBU COBACS Career Fair
April 21 - Alums Frederick Ricker, CPA (Vice President, Corporate Taxes, Suddenlink) and Brad Hershberger, CPA (Tax Manager, McGladrey &Pullen) speak to Accounting Majors
May 1 - Accounting Club field trip to BKD CPA firm
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BKD Trip 2007 Participants BKD is the 10th largest CPA firm in the United States and it's based in Springfield, MO. Our trip includes BKD, Steak-n-Shake, and a Springfield Cardinals baseball game. |
May 12 - ACCOUNTING FUN DAY!
HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED Fall 2007
August 16 - Help move in new SBU Accounting freshmen and transfers
September 12 - Field Trip to Elliott, Robinson & Co. CPA firm; Springfield, MO
September--Sign up to participate in SBU Accounting Alumni Mentoring Program
September 19 - Elliott, Robinson CPA firm KPM, Springfield (and Panera Bread for lunch)
October 3 - KPM CPA firm interviews on SBU campus
October 4 - BKD CPA firm interviews on SBU campus
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KPM, CPA Firm Jill Perryman, SBU alum and Barb Houser |
BKD, CPA Firm Brandon Taylor, SBU alum and Jennifer Larkin |
October 7, 11am--SBU Accounting Alumni Homecoming Reunion (Taylor 119)
November 13 - Accounting Club cookout
November 14, 6pm--SBU Accounting Cookout
December 10 - Mayberry Madness Monday
HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED Spring 2007
January 31 - Greene County official spoke on Governmental Accounting
February 27 - BIG Career Fair in Springfield
February 28 - IRS and Missouri State Auditor Speak to ACC majors
March 16 - SBU COBACS Career Fair, Taylor Hall
April - Field trip to BKD, CPA firm; Steak-n-Shake & Cardinals game
May - Accounting FUN DAY Monday of Finals Week
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Freshman Shannon Kirkpatrick from Wichita makes
fast friends with SBU freshman ACC major, Kim Steinkruger from
Amarillo, Texas. In the background is one of our COBACS "Psalm 15"
themes, humility. The other themes (one per semester) are:
integrity, truthfulness, faithfulness, service, respect, charity, and
perseverance. Shannon was honored with the "Psalm 15 Student Award." . ![]() |
David Olson, senior Accounting major from Kansas
City, serves as the SBU Student Government Association Treasurer. David
"interned" through the Kansas City Rubin, Brown CPA firm in summer 2006
and now works for the Missouri State Auditors Office. |
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NASCAR "chicks" can't get away from the tube long enough to start Intermediate Accounting class. These two "honors" grads from 2006 are serving in the International Tax Dept. at Fortune-500 firm, Leggett & Platt. |
| RIGHT: Jesse Dziurawiec (we call him DZ) interned at BKD in Springfield summer, 2005. DZ was the SBU Bearcats baseball catcher and began his permanent job at BKD in January, 2006. | |
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LEFT: May 2006 grads, Rhi Hickman, Candice Ferrell, and Brandon Taylor visited Buffalo High School to talk to accounting students and give helpful insight about college education and accounting careers. Brandon began his BKD career in 2006 and is in an ELITE group--he passed the ENTIRE CPA exam his first time. Rhi and Candice are international tax accountants for Leggett & Platt in Joplin.
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BELOW: Toni Wade and Kesha Wieskamp enjoyed attending the SBU accounting field trip to Elliot Robinson & Company in Springfield, MO, September, 2005. SBU accounting majors take a field trip each fall to a small Springfield CPA firm. After the field trip, accounting majorsTerrance Avery, Isaac Swick, and Daniel Prerad (SBU's #1 Tennis player from Australia) enjoyed lunch at Panera Bread.
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BELOW: Junior, Chelsea Kenney from Stockton, MO stays very busy
with SBU volleyball and our rigorous accounting program.
Kenney is one of the MIAA leaders in assists per game and also
finds time to work with a local accountant (plus, she speaks to
high school students, below, about why she chose ACCOUNTING).
Above: Brooke Vercellino, a transfer from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale also leads many campus ministry activities. This spring she is coordinating all the Disciple Now programs that SBU students help lead throughout the area. Brooke interned with an Atlanta-based Christian ministry provider in summer, 2006. |
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Lisa Bunn, ACC graduate from Stockton, MO competed for SBU in Cross Country and Track (shown, at left, in pentathlon events). Lisa is an accountant with the Marks, Nelson CPA firm in Kansas City. |
















