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IMPORTANT ACCOUNTING STUDENT EVENTS-Spring 2008 (Pictures Follow)

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.
Tax Help
   

March - Annual Spring Bowling Bonanza! / State Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) Contest (see below)

Toni Wade PBL State Winner in Accounting, Toni Wade
Congratulations!

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

BKD participants


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, 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

  kpm girls Brandon taylor
  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

 

 

December 11-SBU Accounting "Mayberry Madness Monday" (Andy Griffith videos all day)

Shannon and Kim

FAR LEFT:  Freshman Shannon Kirkpatrick from Wichita makes fast friends with  SBU freshman ACC major, Kim Steinkruger from Amarillo, Texas.

Below : 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.Olson

Nascar 2006 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.

Jesse

2004 accounting seniors and Mr. ClarkBrandon Taylor

 

LEFT: May 2006 grads, Rhiannon 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 is BKD career summer, 2006 and is in an ELITE group--he passed the ENTIRE CPA exam his first time.

 

 

 

 

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 will take a similar trip to another small CPA firm, KPM, in 2006.

                 Toni and Kesha

After the field trip, accounting majorsTerrance Avery, Isaac Swick, and Daniel Prerad (SBU's #1 Tennis player from Australia) enjoyed lunch at Panera  Bread.     

       Students

 

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). Visit Day Cookout

Chelsea Kenney

Brooke Vercellino

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.

Starting BlocksHigh Jump Lisa Bunn, junior ACC major from Stockton, MO competes for SBU in Cross Country and Track (shown, at left, in pentathlon events).  Lisa also "interns" by keeping books for 2 local Bolivar businesses.