Professor Elam

Monday April 7 2014

We professors are constantly peppered with questions about a student's grade. This is not surprising given the years and years of emphasis on just that. As a result, students have a hard time shifting hgars when the time comes. And by that I mean shifting gears to the only grade that really counts. That grade is a pass fail on whether you become certified in a particular accounting field. 

Today an accounting degree at the BBA or Masters level is your ticket to take such an exam. 

Yet time after time when I ask, students reply as one did just today in an e mail, oh I am going to study for the CPA or whatever after I graduate.  To which I can only wonder, what not now?

Scan the accounting certifications on the sidebar of this blog. You will note there are quite a few but the big ones are CPA, CIA, CMA, CFE. The time to begin studying is now, integrate this with your current studies. The review texts have handy outlines over the very material you are now studying. And there are questions with solved answers. My friends at Gleim have provided sets of their review books available on reserve in our Business Library at Brooks. 

And handily we have a full time staff of professors to help

REG

Gil Barrera is both a CPA and an Attorney, so he can help with Law and Tax. Richard Green is also pretty handy at tax. 

Audit

Both Leticia Price and Judy Lewis focus on audit.

FAR

Between Nancy Batch, Amanda Salinas, and myself if we don't know the answer we will find it out for you. 

BEC

Judy Lewis and I have taught managerial and we have a couple of economists here to also help with economic concepts. 

My point is that waiting until after you graduate is waiting until you do not have the advantages of the in house professor AND our business library with its 300+ accounting journals. 

Start now, do not delay.