Professor Elam

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.