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Ph.D. Alumni Reception
Accounting Programs Ranked #1
Each summer the Department of Accounting hosts a reception for alumni of the Ph.D. program during the American Accounting Association (AAA) annual meeting. More than sixty faculty, Ph.D. students, and alumni gathered together at Bobby Van’s in New York City to reconnect.
Both the graduate and undergraduate accounting programs in the Wisconsin School of Business earned #1 rankings among programs with fifteen or fewer accounting faculty by the Public Accounting Report in their Annual Professors Survey. Each year the Public Accounting Report surveys accounting professors across U.S. colleges and universities to rank collegiate accounting programs.
Accounting Students Chosen For Prestigious Internships with Standard-Setting Boards Master of Accountancy (MAcc) students Andrew Debbink, Tanner Engmann, and Kayta Gruneberg were recently selected for postgraduate technical assistant (PTA) internships. Engmann joined the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in July and Debbink will join in January 2017; Gruneberg joined the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) in July. These graduates will have the opportunity to be assigned to major agenda projects at each board or to short-term practice and implementation issues. PTAs are involved in all phases of their assigned projects, including analyzing written submissions received on documents issued for public comment, reviewing and analyzing published research, preparing memorandums on technical issues for board members’ information, drafting due process documents, and much more. The MAcc program has a long tradition of students being selected for these prestigious PTA positions. Recent FASB interns include Andrea Willett (BBA ’13, MAcc ’14), Alex Debbink (BBA ’12, MAcc ’13) and Kate Konetzke (BBA ’12, MAcc ’13). Recent GASB interns include Matt Baker (BBA ’14, MAcc ’15) and Liesl Seiser (BBA ’13, MAcc ’14).
L to R: Ph.D. student Kimberly Walker, University of Tennessee Ph.D. student Michelle Harding, Ph.D. students Eric Condie and Amy Tegeler, Cass Hausserman (Ph.D., ’14)
Ph.D. Student Recognition
Zach Kowaleski (BBA ’08, MAcc ’09) Zach will represent the university as an economic research fellow at the PCAOB Center for Economic Analysis. While there, he will work on his dissertation using the PCAOB broker-dealer inspection program data to research broker-dealer audit quality sources and signals.
Current and former PTAs joined former FASB board member Tom Linsmeier for a class session with students in the three-week Professional Issues course. L to R: Kayta Gruneberg, Alex Debbink, Tom Linsmeier, Kate Konetzke (BBA ’12, MAcc ’13), Tanner Engmann, Matt Baker (BBA ’14, MAcc ’15)
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