STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS When Taxes are Not Taxing nonprofit business management newspaper, The Nonprofit Times. In this role, Tim witnessed the hierarchy of command that dictated information flow and gained invaluable experience with managing due dates on large-scale projects. He was responsible for importing financial data, compiling 990 tax forms into worksheets and organizing candid data based on individual nonprofit organizations. “The classes I took at SEU helped me in my internship because I was working with financial statements, balance sheets and information from tax forms” explains Tim. “If I didn’t know my way around financial forms, I could not have done this job.”
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Spending months working on taxes would be most people’s worst nightmare. However, TIMOTHY “TIM” QUERCIA, ‘23, has always been fascinated by financial information. As a child, Tim would frequently try to understand how large companies utilized their finances.
Both an accomplished student and athlete, Tim received an academic scholarship to attend SEU and was further recruited to play for the University’s baseball team. Once on campus, Tim couldn’t help but fall in love with SEU’s culture of community and support.
This innate curiosity strengthened Tim’s penchant for business and led him to enroll in SEU’s dual B.S. in Business Administration and M.S. in Accounting program. [Students earn their undergraduate degree from Saint Elizabeth University and their master’s from neighboring Fairleigh Dickinson University.] While at SEU, Tim earned a paid internship with the
“In high school, I didn’t feel like an individual, but at SEU I know that my professors know me by name and all of them have my back,” says Tim. “My advisor, Wendy Hahn, is actually the reason I got my internship in the first place. She heard about the opening and thought it would be a great opportunity for me.”
