Corporate Cleanup
Are new corporate accountability measures making a difference or making a mess? Finance faculty and a Wall Street investigative journalist debate their impact.
Accounting Programs, Students Win National Kudos
The Accounting Department has been in the national spotlight recently.
- For the third time in five years, a team of Wisconsin students won the PricewaterhouseCoopers xTAX case competition.
- A team of Wisconsin accounting students took third place in the KPMG National Audit Case Competition.
- The undergraduate and graduate accounting programs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business were both ranked in the top 10 in the nation by Public Accounting Report. The graduate program moved up nine spots to 9th, and the undergraduate program moved up three spots to 10th from the previous year.
- A Wisconsin student was chosen for a highly competitive position with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Josie Cizek was tapped for a post-graduate technical assistant internship. It’s the seventh year in a row FASB has tapped a Wisconsin student for the position.
Above: The winning PricewaterhouseCoopers team with Professor Jon Davis (center).
Below: Wisconsin students took third place in the KPMG case competition.
Update Magazine June 2007
Feature Stories
Jumping on the Brandwagon:
Why companies are paying handsomely to make sure you see their brands more and more in movies, TV shows, even in the books you read.
Keeping Pay at Bay
Soaring CEO salaries are the target of increasing controversy. Will Congress step in to set limits?
Should it?
Why Don't We Have Better Bosses?
Even with good intentions on both sides, supervisor-employee relations can be fraught. A look at what keeps us from having (and being) better bosses.
Departments
JUNE 2007 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 1
EDITOR: Lari Fanlund
DESIGN: Lori Strelow, Anna Dulmes
EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE: Jennifer Asselin and Scott Voss
EDITORIAL BOARD: Alisa Robertson, Melissa Amos-Landgraf, Tina Frailey, Jim Kubek, Richard Lee, Mark Matosian, Deborah Mitchell, Kayleen Reilly, Steve Schroeder and Charlie Trevor
COVER: Product placement is all around, in places you may or may not expect, and it’s not happening by accident—as Marjani Coffey, a second-year Wisconsin MBA student in Brand and Product Management, helps illustrate.
Cover photo for UPDATE
by Bob Rashid.
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