GENERAL EDWARDS
DID YOU KNOW? Due to the start of World War I, the School of Accounting didn’t admit its first students until the fall of 1917. One of the founding principles of the university was that women and men should enjoy equal access to education. Accounting students included both men and women from the early years.
KEY PIONEERS
James Neilson played a leadership role in both the ICAS and the School of Accounting. He was one of first 26 people to receive a B.Sc. in Accounting from the U of S in 1914 and became the first professor of accounting the same year. Walter C. Murray was the first president of U of S and spearheaded the development of the accounting school and relationship with ICAS. Walter Whittaker was the first to graduate from the program with a B.Sc. in Accounting in 1923.
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