DEAR ACCOUNTING LONGHORNS: On May 20, we celebrated 106 years of UT accounting education at the 2017 MPA Commencement Ceremony. As always, our graduates richly deserve a great send off. For the past seven years, one or more UT students… Continue Reading →
Each year, students volunteer with the Community Tax Centers of Austin as part of the Tax Practicum course led by Brian Lendecky and J Kamas, lecturers in accounting. It’s often a life-changing experience for these students as they help low-income… Continue Reading →
It is with great sadness that we share the news of our friend and colleague Ken Brown passing away in November. Retired after thirty-eight years with EY and 28 years as an EY partner, Ken joined our faculty in August… Continue Reading →
On April 26, the Department of Accounting celebrated the long and distinguished career of accounting Professor Paul Newman. Retiring this year, he says goodbye to 30 years of teaching and over 40 years of being on The University of Texas… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to Kristina Zvinakis on her promotion to Senior Lecturer. This well-deserved promotion recognizes her tireless work for the Department of Accounting. In addition, Kristina was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award at this year’s MPA Commencement. Several Faculty Members… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to PhD Student Prasart Jongjaroenkamol on his full-time faculty job at the Singapore Management University. The school specializes in business and management studies, modelling itself after the Wharton School. We hope he finds success educating a new crop of… Continue Reading →
Two Texas MPA students won the 2016 Elijah Watt Sells Award. Charles Sims (BBA ’15, MPA ’15) and Andrew J. Smith (BBA ’15, MPA ’16) not only passed all 4 sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, they obtained a cumulative… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to the McCombs team for placing third at the national Deloitte FanTAXtic Case Competition! Sixty teams representing 43 colleges and universities participated in the regional event in November. As one of nine winners at the regional event, the team… Continue Reading →
Communicated Values as Informal Controls: Promoting Quality While Undermining Productivity? Steven J. Kachelmeier (UT), Todd A. Thornock (Iowa State University), and Michael G. Williamson (Illinois) Contemporary Accounting Research, Winter 2016, 33(4), pp. 1141-1434 We use experimentation to show that a… Continue Reading →
Almost 580 college fencers from 37 colleges across the country participated in the United States Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs’ (USACFC) annual Collegiate Fencing National Championships in Lansing, Michigan this past April. Of those, iMPA student Sean Li, currently Treasurer… Continue Reading →
The McCombs Accounting Programs’ Texas Star Award is given to a friend of our department and our programs in recognition of his or her continuing support over a sustained period of years. This year’s honoree, C. Aubrey Smith, Jr., joins… Continue Reading →
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