Thursday, November 15, 2007
Accounting Day helps program grow
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USI’s Accounting program has grown by 25 percent in the last five years, due in part to events like USI Accounting Day, to be held Friday, November 16. John Campbell, the Office of Admission’s liaison to the College of Business, said the event attracts many students to the USI campus. Previously, the University sent a representative off-campus to meet with top students from local schools. “Then we decided to do something on our campus, and it has exploded,” Campbell said. In 2006, 190 people attended. This year’s Accounting Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Carter Hall in the University Center. Lunch is provided and campus tours will be available. Students interested in a degree in accounting will meet with USI’s award-winning accounting team, accounting faculty, and members of USI’s Accounting Circle, an advisory board comprised of senior executives in public and corporate accounting; learn about accounting internships and co-ops; and play a game of accounting “Jeopardy.” Parents and high school counselors are also invited. Dr. Brian McGuire, professor of accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting and Business Law, said, “We’ve gone from 320 majors including the post-baccalaureate certificate program to 400 majors from 2002 to 2007, which is about the time we started scheduling the high school days and the Accounting Extravaganza for college students in October.” USI Accounting students have won first place in the annual Indiana CPA Society Case Study Competition the last four years against IU-Bloomington, IUPUI-Kelley School of Business, University of Notre Dame, Valparaiso University, Purdue University, and Butler University. Last year, the team was featured in the Journal of Accountancy for having won the competition three years in a row. Accounting students participated in the national finals of the Video Case Competition sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) where they finished in the final four the past two years. USI won the Alpha Kappa Psi regional competition in 2006. “We’re improving in quality and quantity,” McGuire said. “And more students from greater distances are hearing about the accounting program. We’re now getting inquiries in multiple states. It used to be most inquires were from the Tri-State, but now it seems that the inquiries are coming from greater geographic distances, which again speaks to the quality of our program.” USI Accounting Day is sponsored by the Department of Accounting, the USI Accounting Circle, the College of Business, and the Office of Admission. For more information, call Campbell at 812/465-1219. Wendy Knipe Bredhold USI News and Information Services wkbredhold@usi.edu 812/461-5259 |
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