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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. |
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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! |
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, 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
December 11-SBU Accounting "Mayberry Madness Monday" (Andy Griffith videos all day)
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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. |
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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, 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.
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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 will take a similar trip to another small CPA firm, KPM, in 2006.
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, 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. |
