An interdisciplinary team of 17 Penn State students recently placed first overall in the 2019 Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition, a contest designed to challenge undergraduate students to create unique solutions to complex wind energy projects. This is Penn State’s fourth victory in the competition in the last six years.
Prospects for graduates with an accounting degree are projected to be bright across the nation in the coming years. Recognizing the market demand, business faculty and academic administrators of Penn State Altoona have announced the addition of an accounting major starting in fall 2018.
Casey Staley-Bingaman, a mother of two whose husband is a Marine, fulfilled a promise she made to herself when she graduated from Penn State on May 5.
A trio of accounting experts, each of whom has served in a national leadership position within the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) or the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA), will participate in a roundtable discussion about increasing diversity in the profession, at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 27 in the Business Building Atrium.
Baizhou Chen, a certified public account with extensive professional and teaching experience, will join the Penn State Beaver faculty as an instructor in accounting this fall.
A new online graduate certificate in accounting from Penn State can help accountants work toward acquiring the credits they need to be licensed as a CPA.
Penn State Harrisburg now offers a graduate certificate in accounting. The program is coordinated by Thomas Amlie, associate professor of accounting in the School of Business Administration.
Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer two levels of QuickBooks accounting software classes this fall designed to help participants better run their businesses.
When Penn State Berks' Yaya Barry graduated on May 7, it was the realization of his dream and the culmination of a long journey for him and his family, having moved from Guinea to the United States in 2004. When they arrived in Philadelphia, Barry did not know any English. In just 12 years, he has been able to not only learn the language, but also earn a bachelor of science in accounting and a full-time internship at Ernst & Young as an auditor.
Professor Charles R. Enis, a 34-year member of the Department of Accounting in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, died of cancer at his home on Nov. 25. He was 69.
The Enterprise Integration Consortium (EIC) at Penn State will hold an Industry Advisory Board meeting Oct. 28-29 at the Ramada State College Hotel and Conference Center. The EIC is a multidisciplinary education and research group that focuses on issues related to enterprise integration technologies and applications, supply chain management, and enterprise resource planning systems.
The demand for accountants and auditors is forecast to increase the number of jobs by 13 percent through 2022. Penn State World Campus is launching a new bachelor’s degree and a new master’s degree in accounting that can help train people for jobs in this growing field.
A former chief accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will discuss the new revenue recognition accounting standard Monday, April 13, at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Yara Elsaied is in her first year as a student at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. While Erie, Pennsylvania, and Behrend are entirely new for Elsaied, the United States is not. The Cairo native has grown quite fond of the country over the past couple years.
A new study from Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty members Steven Huddart and Hong Qu examines the power of social influence on managers’ ethical behavior. The Department of Accounting researchers find that managers tend to become more honest after observing honest peers and more dishonest after observing dishonest peers.
