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Student : Faculty : 2006 Accounting Department Newsletter

Student News:

Wisconsin Accounting Students Win National Tax Competition Yet Again

For the third time in five years, accounting students from the UW-Madison School of Business have won the PricewaterhouseCoopers xTAX competition.

MAcc Student Again Named to FASB Internship

Josie Cizek, a student in the Five-Year Professional Program in Accounting, has been awarded a post-graduate technical assistant internship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

Wisconsin Accounting Ranks in Top 10

Both the undergraduate and graduate accounting programs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business have been ranked in the top 10 in the nation by Public Accounting Report.

Wisconsin Accounting Student Named to FASB Internship

Troy Van Beek, a graduate student in the Five-Year Professional Program in Accounting was selected for an internship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

UW-Madison Team Makes National Finals of Deloitte Tax Case Competition

A team of Wisconsin accounting students has made it to the national finals of the Deloitte Tax Case Competition.

Accounting Students Take Second Place

Undergraduate accounting students took second place in the Deloitte National Student Case Study Competition.

Accounting Graduates Continue to Shine

Accounting graduates of the School of Business continue to match up against the best in the nation in terms of CPA Exam pass-rate rankings.

Increased Demand for Accountants

"Rules spur demand for accountants: Universities can't turn them out fast enough," by Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY, January 18, 2005 --- http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050118/1a_bottomstrip18.art.htm

Accounting Students Win PwC Tax Competition

A team of accounting students from the UW-Madison School of Business has won a national case competition.

UW-Madison Team of Accounting Students Again Makes Finals of PwC Tax Competition

A team of accounting students from the UW-Madison School of Business has made the national finals of the PricewaterhouseCoopers xTAX competition.

Accounting Students Win Honorable Mention In Deloitte Tax Competition

A team of accounting students from UW-Madison placed in the top 10 in the national Deloitte tax competition this year, earning honorable mention and a $1,000 award for the Department of Accounting and Information Systems.

Accounting Students Make Finals of PwC National Competition For Second Straight Year

In January, the School of Business will send a team to compete in the finals of a national case competition sponsored by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

UW-Madison Accounting Graduate Finishes Third in Nation on CPA Exam

A UW-Madison graduate had the third highest score in the nation on the Uniform CPA Examination for May 2002. Kelly Mogensen earned the Elijah Watt Sells Bronze medal for finishing third nationally among people who took the exam last May.

Accounting Students Win PwC National Competition

A University of Wisconsin-Madison team of accounting students has won a case competition sponsored by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

UW-Madison Business Students Take 1 st Place In International Competition

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison business students has won first place and $20,000 in an international business plan competition in Singapore.

Faculty News:

Ashbaugh-Skaife Research Examines Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

The study found that firms that corrected their internal control problems, as mandated by the Act, lowered their cost of equity capital by 50 to 150 basis points.

Accounting Faculty Research Wins National Attention

Research by School of Business faculty in accounting is among the most cited in the nation, a recent study has found.

UW-Madison Accounting Professor Among Most Influential in Finance

An accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business has been named one of the nation’s 100 most influential people in finance.

Accounting Professor Named to Two National Posts

Assistant Professor Hollis (Holly) Ashbaugh-Skaife, Accounting and Information Systems, has an enhanced national role in the accounting field, with recent appointment to two positions.

UW-Madison Business Professor Launches Corporate Reporting Study

Lori Holder-Webb, an assistant professor of accounting and information systems at the UW-Madison School of Business, is part of a four-person research team recently awarded a grant to research corporate reporting.

UW Professor Helps Measures Results of Sarbanes-Oxley

UW-Madison Accounting Professor Larry E. Rittenberg has co-authored a report measuring the costs and benefits of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Act established new financial reporting requirements

Accounting Professor Larry Rittenberg to Lead National Effort on Quality of Financial Reporting

Accounting Professor Larry Rittenberg has been named chair of a key national organization working to improve the quality of financial reporting.

Accounting Professor’s Research Cited in New York Times

A recent article in The New York Times on how executive compensation affects earnings cited the research of an accounting professor at the School of Business.

Assessing Fair Value

An accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business was interviewed in a column by David Shook on Business Week Online about assessing fair value. AOL says it will decide in the fourth quarter whether another goodwill write-down is necessary. While fair value is an estimation made by its own accountants, it can and often does change depending on the underlying financial trends of a business, saysAccounting Professor Terry Warfield.

Accounting Professor Nominated for National Accounting Education Award

Accounting Professor Jerry Weygandt of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business had been nominated for a national award in accounting education by the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs (WICPA)