A co-worker of mine once warned me “beware of the person you may become.” I wasn’t by any means doing anything wrong, so don’t let that counsel change your impression of me. However, the idea that my actions today will escalate and snowball, forging either a respectable creature or a leviathan, haunts me. Aristotle said [...]
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Paul: A work in Progress
category: Paul, Student Life
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Cities (Probably) Overlooked During Recruiting: Part 2
Greetings from Red Sox Nation, home of the Boston Tea Party, Beantown or whatever you like to call it. Clearly Boston is a city full of life (and United States History). As I said before, Austin is a city with many accolades, but we should consider all the alternatives during recruiting. All Big 4 have [...]
Pop Culture: The key to success?
My professors tell me the best way to prepare for interviews, is to read newspapers every day. They highlight the importance of being aware of what’s going on with the economy and current events outside of the 40 Acres, because that’s the world we will be living in. When speaking with adults, being able to [...]
Cities (Probably) Overlooked During Recruiting: Part 1
Happy Holidays, everyone! I hope you all survived finals. I know it can be a rough time of year. This is the first MPA blog from California! If not, my apologies to the MPA blogger of the past for stealing your thunder. Spring recruiting is coming up for us third-years, and I wanted to highlight [...]
tags: accounting, Austin, california, internships, mccombs, mpa, recruiting, San Francisco, students
Is the classical accounting personality required for success?
I just read an interesting research article about personality types that succeed in accounting. The article by Bealing, Baker, and Russo researches the Myers-Briggs personality types of graduating accounting students and compares them to the personality type of other graduating business students. The overall Myers-Briggs personality type for accounting students was ESTJ. For those of [...]
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Sarah Haas, MPA '13
MPA Track: Taxation
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MPA Track: Financial Reporting and Assurance
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MPA Track: Financial Reporting and Assurance
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MPA Track: Financial Reporting and Assurance
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MPA Track: Audit
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MPA Track: undeclared, planning Taxation
