Category: Certified Exams

  • Thursday Feb 17 2011 Hmm, Apple needs to work on the white balance under fluorescent lights on the next iPhone!   Anyway Bruce Howard visits with students after his talk Wednesday evening Feb 16, 2011.  Bruce's Remarks about Ten Things to Increase Your Personal Brand appear below.  thanks Bruce!            …

  • Thursday Feb 17 2011 Is Your Job Endangered is certainly a must read for all those in college at this point.  Last night Bruce Howard talked about the accounting profession. This article refers to professional licenses as sponges. I would reply that what has happened is the union mentality mind set of excluding people from jobs…

  • Thursday Jan 27, 2011 A complete 4 book set of the Gleim CPA review books for 2010 and 2011  is available on reserve in the Counselor's Office at the St Joe campus. A 2 book set of the CMA Review will be placed there this next week.  The computer based reviews for both CMA and…

  • Tuesday Jan 25, 2011 I mentioned the origins of accounting, and mispronounced Pacioli's last name. This is an interesting history of accounting from the ever available wiki. If you read the history, it took centuries to get where we are today, it is the explosion of money and credit that finally brought accounting mainstream. The CPA…

  • Wed October 27, 2010   Robin Alizadeh with Rush Enterprises spoke to the Graduate Cost Class tonight. Robin is an Internal Auditor with Rush Enterprises. Rush owns some 60 Peterbilt dealerships and is headquartered in New Braunfels.  Robin attended UT Dallas which has an emphasis at the graduate level on Internal Auditing.  Robin stressed that…

  • Monday Oct 25, 2010 Surprise surprise, engineering, CSI, Accounting make more right out of college than liberal arts.  A dynamic that one might miss is this, there are simply too many liberal arts and humanities majors for the 'market' to possibly absorb them, hence it is difficult to stand out and supply continues to trump…

  • Sunday October 3, 2010 On the life long value of the CPA designation I don't know what it means to be a CPA But I sure know what it means NOT to be a CPA On the importance of exam preparation Oh I just took it to see what it's like….. On the assumption that…

  • Friday Sept 17, 2010 Attention, SACPAS student and candidate members, if you're still not sure how to use your degree after graduation, we can help.  Plan to attend the Fall 2010 Accounting Careers Workshop on Friday, October 1, from 6-8 p.m. at the SACPAS CPA Center.  For details and to get your name on the…

  • Wednesday July 28, 2010  Wiliam Burrus, Education Contact for San Antonio IIA, spoke to our classes July 27. He discussed his experiences as an internal auditor as well as the IIA certification process.  He stayed with us for our discussion of leasing, turns out his hospital leases doctors!  Thanks for visiting with us Mr. Burrus!

  • Tuesday July 20, 2010 The review class will be offered for six Saturdays from 9 AM – 12 Noon beginning July 24, 2010 Texas A & M San Antonio 1450 Gillette Blvd San Antonio, TX 78224 The helpdesk has you down for room reservation on ROOM 12, from 9am-12pm, Gillette campus. Dates: July 24th, 31st,…