Wed Sept 19, 2018

During any oil boom there are always groups that look to become J R Ewing the quick and easy way, just steal oil from a third party.

Ricardo Sanchez Jr. Ricardo Guevara and Romeo Garcia Jr. hav all pead guilty to selling $2 M of oil in the Eagle Ford. The created a fake company, Andra Energy Llc which claimed to recover oil from frack waste water.

OIl fields have elaborate pipelines which make it relatively easy to simply drain a tank and send the oil elsewhere. The group created false run tickets to show legitimate sales.

Like so many fraudsters, staying too long at the scene of the crime is ultimately dangerous. The longer such a scheme goes on the greater the danger of being caught.

Professor Elam

Urest to Sell Helotes Luxury Home

September 19, 2018

Wed Sept 19, 2018

In ACCT 53089 Ethics class I contrasted the thrifty life style of Henry David Thoreau at Walden with the over the top conspicuous consumption of a former fashion mode. Here is another example of how greed upended a career.

Carlos Uresti former State Senator, moved from his $600,000 Shavano Park home to a $1.7 M homes in Helotes. He is now selling the hose for $1.5 M. It is 8,064 SF with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. He and his wife, that would be two people lived there for about two years before his conviction for fraud with its 12 year jail sentence.

Professor Elam

The Empire Strikes Back

September 19, 2018

Wed Sept 19, 2018

TAMUSA was begun to officially address the under served south side of SA. Apparently UTSA wants back in that contest. A five acre expansion is underway on the other side of I 35 downtown.

$33 Million National Security Collaboration Center

$57 Million School of Data Science

$28 Million College of Business

The city is selling giving whatever UTSA the land as though traffic and parking was not already a disaster there.

Geekdom creator Graham Weston is already chortling how this will expand downtown.

I am not so sure. One of our grad students, whose undergrad degree was UTSA, told me he attends TMAUSA grad school for a good reason. Two semesters here costs $9,000. Two semesters at UTSA cost $19,000. Since going for Tier One apparently every cost has gone thru the roof at UTSA.

Professor Elam

Clifton Strength Workshop

September 17, 2018

Monday Sept 17 2018

Clifton Strengths is an excellent tool for anyone in a position of management to determine their employees/team members strengths and how best to utilize them. Terry had me take the test to determine mine. Also, Jennifer Dirk had implemented it at her auditing job, and her team regularly out-performed all other departments. Students can sign up by accessing the Jagsync link on their BB. Once they click on it, they can type in Clifton Strengths and choose an event. If they scroll to the bottom of the page, they will be able to view other dates for the event. I hope more people take advantage of this free event.

Professor Elam

FHK CPA to Present September 20

September 16, 2018

Weekend Sept 16, 2018

https://www.fhkcpa.com/index

Above is the link to learn about FHK CPAs. Like our previous three presentations this is a locally owned firm. We have a TAMUSA graduate working there now and I believe Justin will accompany Bob Herbst Thursday.

Read Bob's biography here

Professor Elam

SA CPA Society Visits TAMUSA Campus

September 14, 2018

Friday Sept 14,2018

In our continuing series or Professional Experience in BUAD 3191, we had a presentation about the importance of CPA certification as well as the details of how that is accomplished.

Career Services Director Karen Ivy greets ATKG HR Manager

Annette Goodson and Bryant.

Above left to right Amanda Talaat from SA CPA Society, Bryant and Annette Goodson with ATKG.

Lots of good questions from students after wards.

Professor Elam

Tutor Hours

September 13, 2018

Thursday Sept 12 2018

Sylvia is locate in the Tutoring Center on the 2nd floor of CAB at the East end of the building.

Here's my schedule to provide to your faculty/students as requested:

M-W: 12 - 5

TR: 12 - 4

Just in case, here are all the classes I tutor for:

ACCT 2301 2302 3301 3302 3303 3304 3305 3314

ECON 2301 2302

BUAD 3301

FINC 3337

BLAW 3341

Best Regards,

Sylvia Bolles

Professor Elam

Social Media Meeting

September 11, 2018

Tuesday Sept 11 2018

LaunchSA will be on campus tomorrow at 6pm for an information session on their social innovation lab that starts later this month. Our school is participating in this, and Drs. Voges and Black will be participating as guest speakers during the program. We would like to identify up to 5 university affiliated individuals (students, alumni, faculty, staff) to participate in this program. Students can participate either for credit as a business experiential learning class, or not for credit.

If you can share this info with interested students either by forwarding this email, posting it as a blackboard announcement, or posting the attached PDF slife to blackboard I would appreciate it