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SA A & M Accounting Students Attend SA CPA Meet

Veronica Onate, Isabel Amesquita, and Yovela Rico along with yours truly attended an informative meeting Friday November 7, 2008 -  Everything You Wanted to Know about Becoming a CPA. A four member panel featured CPAs with various backgrounds. Ed Polansky, past President of Texas CPAs, was present, bringing 40 years of insight about the profession. Lisa Mattson, Division Director for Robert Half, made the point that CPA is the hallmark designation of the accoutning profession.

Our school was as well represented as any.  Oddly my experience is that the large schools are not supportive of such events. You mght have though our trio would be dwarfed by the UTSA students, hardly, there were about sixteen total students in attendance.  I noted the same thing several years ago at a reginal Beta Alpha Psi contest for accounting students. A & M College Station and UT Austion were not to be  found, fearful no doubt of being shown up by  a smaller school.

so you never know, I met up with friends ffrom being here previously that I asked to come to campus and speak to our students. Networking, what this game is all about.

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    Tina C

    I visited with Ed (Polansky) at the office this weekend about the program. Typically there is not a huge turn out and rarely are instructors present from the schools. Since we are a smaller campus, the more visible we can be, the better. If the area CPAs take us seriously, it will open doors for more scholarship potential and internships.
    It really is all about the networking. Whatever path your degree & certifications take you, it’s good to know others in either the same or different fields. We refer clients to legal, banking or other business services within our networks and hence, they refer clients to us.

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