Accounting 2012-2013 Academic Year at a Glance
- Message From The Accounting Area Coordinator
- Accomplishments of our Students
- Other Newsworthy Events
- A Tribute To Our Distinguished Faculty
- Accounting Faculty Publication
Message From The Accounting Area Coordinator
Accomplishments of our Students
UT Dallas Team Wins AICPA Annual Case Competition
(Above, left to right) Richard J. Caturano, chairman of the American Institute of CPAs, with JSOM winning team members Samuel Teichelman, Shaz Azimi, April Crawford and Trey Sweeney with their faculty advisor, John Barden
Placing ahead of more than 125 other teams at the AICPA Case Competition in Washington, D.C., our team of accounting students earned first place and a cash reward of $10,000. UT Dallas has placed in the top three in all three years the competition has existed. The AICPA has announced that the competition for 2013 will focus on the topic of personal financial planning. The call for entries begins August 19th.
UTD Hosts PPA Case Competition
UT Dallas hosts a case competition for our Professional Program in Accounting (PPA) students every semester. It gives the students a great opportunity to address “hot topics” in the profession while enhancing their presentation skills in front of their future employers. Partners from the largest public accounting firms in the area serve on a panel of judges.
Fall 2012 Case Competition Winners (left to right) Sara Ali, Pearl Promwanrat, Kyle D’Souza, April Crawford, Adina Phillips
Spring 2013 Case Competition Winners (left to right) Joel Asmussen, Brittany Weber, Shaz Azimi, Kushagra Gupta, Garrett Engel
Accounting Students Take Second In Deloitte FanTAXtic Case Competition
Back Row (left to right): Faculty Advisor Steve Solcher with students Mark Kielhorn, Lewis Warne and Ben Hudson, and William McKee, BS 2000, MS 2003, a JSOM alumnus who is now a Deloitte senior tax manager. Front Row (left to right): Students Teresa Tran and Zoe Wilson and Faculty Advisor Tiffany Bortz
Our team of accounting students placed second in the region at the Deloitte FanTAXtic Case Competition on November 3, 2012. The team earned a “Regional Honorable Mention Award” of $2,000 for UT Dallas and $200 for each student.
PPA Student Is Named To All-America Team
Kyle Schleigh, a junior in the PPA program was named to the, NCAA Division III All-America Third Team by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He is the eighth student-athlete from UT Dallas to receive such an honor. Read the full story on the UT Dallas News Center. Recently, Kyle accepted an internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers, which begins in the summer of 2014.
UT Dallas Students Care About Our Community
Members of the UT Dallas chapter of the accounting honors fraternity Beta Alpha Psi partnered with accounting firm Montgomery Coscia Greilich in a community service event for underprivileged children at a childcare center in Dallas. Members also partnered with accounting and consulting firm Crowe Horwath for a community service event at the North Texas Food Bank. The Jindal School of Management is home to 10 student organizations that help accounting and finance students develop professional skills and encourage their involvement in the community.
Chapter members with Montgomery Coscia Greilich at a childcare center in Dallas.
Chapter members helped pack donated canned goods with Crowe Horwath at the North Texas Food Bank.
A group of undergraduate and graduate accounting students partnered with the United Way of Dallas to participate in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program, which provides assistance in tax return preparation and education for individuals earning less than $51,000. Our students contributed a total of 2,219 volunteer hours, and the tax returns our students prepared resulted in approximately $3.8 million in total refunds.
ASCEND Wins UTD Outstanding Students Organization Of The Year
Out of more than 200 student organizations on campus, ASCEND, the premier nonprofit professional association for Pan-Asian students, was awarded UTD Outstanding Student Organization of the Year. The group was recognized for its professional development activities, networking events and leadership training.
Great Students For The Ernst & Young Emerging Leaders Program
Four accounting sophomore students, Yesenia Lopez, Travis White, Kat Hudson and Tue Tran, were selected to participate in the 2013 Ernst & Young Emerging Leaders Program. The program gave students the opportunity to explore their potential as a leader through a one- to three-day course at an EY office, introducing them to the EY culture, people and practices that drive success.
Other Newsworthy Events
Dr. Rebecca Files, assistant professor in accounting, received the prestigious President’s Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognized her enthusiasm and dedication to the Accounting program and its students. Please take the time to read the full story on the UT Dallas News Center.
A Tribute To Our Distinguished Faculty
Dr. Adolf J. H. Enthoven
Obituary:
Dr. Adolf J.H. Enthoven, the senior accounting professor in the UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management and director of its Center for International Accounting Development, passed away March 15 of complications from a fall late last year. He was 84.
Dr. Enthoven, who joined the UT Dallas faculty in 1976, was a noted expert on international accounting. He wrote or contributed nearly 20 books on accounting education and the profession as practiced in Africa, Asia, China, Russia and many countries around the globe. His legacy includes hosting his center’s annual oil and gas financial management programs for developing countries. Held on the UT Dallas campus every summer since 1979, the three-week curriculum attracts mid- and upper-level personnel in oil-producing countries outside the U.S. The program, which has its own alumni association, now boasts almost 1,700 graduates from more than 80 countries.
“The school has lost a great accounting professor and a great man,” Dr. Hasan Pirkul, dean of the Jindal School and Caruth Chair of Management, said. “Dr. Enthoven was beloved by all who knew him — his friends, his colleagues and his many students both here and spread throughout the world. He and his center made a huge impact in the oil and gas industry and the international accounting world. He was a dedicated, hard-working professor, and we will all miss him very much.”
Dr. Enthoven will live on, though, the dean said, in part through a chaired professorship that bears his name. Established in 2010, the Adolf Enthoven Distinguished Professorship in Accounting and Information Management “ensures that, as one of the founding professors of our school, Dr. Enthoven will not be forgotten,” Pirkul said.
“It’s very difficult and sad to say goodbye to our good friend, Adolf Enthoven,” Dr. Bill Cready, Ashbel Smith Professor and coordinator of the Jindal School’s Accounting area, said. “He was a wonderful accounting professor, friend and colleague. I was always impressed by his commitment to students, his love for the field of accounting and his interest in developing a more global emphasis in his teaching and research.”
Dr. Constantine Konstans
Obituary:
Dr. Constantine “Connie” Konstans, who found his niche in accounting and education after earning a degree in music and serving in the military, passed away May 20, 2013 — the day before his 78th birthday.
Konstans began teaching at UT Dallas in 1993. A longtime professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, he recently was honored with a UT Dallas endowed professorship in his name, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from D CEO magazine.
Early this year he was named a Fellow of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group, a nonprofit to help organizations achieve principled performance in areas such as governance and assurance.
“Connie Konstans was a brilliant professor who recognized the need early on to prepare students and executives for changing corporate governance and compliance regulations and expectations. His courses and conferences influenced students and executives worldwide.” Dr. Hobson Wildenthal, provost and executive vice president at UT Dallas, said.
Jindal School Dean and Caruth Chair of Management Dr. Hasan Pirkul said he was deeply saddened by the loss of Dr. Konstans. “For the past decade, Dr. Konstans taught students and executives alike the importance of sweeping changes in financial regulations and the corporate responsibilities they entailed by designing courses, organizing conferences and founding the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance,” Pirkul said. “He was a wonderful friend and colleague who will be greatly missed.