SOA News

Nov 10, 2009

CPA Exam candidates from Utah State University achieved a Top 10 national ranking for the second year in a row for CPA exam pass rates according to the 2009 National Association of State Boards of Accountancy report. This is an accomplishment that only three schools can claim: BYU, The University ...Click here for more

Sep 23, 2009

Retired Professor Larzette G. Hale featured in the Journal of Accountancy. Dr. Larzette Hale is not only legendary in the accounting academic field, but is a legend in the lives of countless students she has mentored throughout her career. Dr. Hale was recently spotlighted in the August edition ...Click here for more

Aug 31, 2009

Clark Wilkinson, of Wilkinson, Cooley and Company and School of Accountancy Advisory Board member, received the UACPA Outstanding CPA in Public Practice award, at Annual UACPA Awards Luncheon on August 20th at the Grand America in Salt Lake City, for extraordinary service rendered to the ...Click here for more

Aug 17, 2009

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has instituted a major change in the way accounting standards are organized. The FASB Accounting Standards Codification™ (FASB Codification) has become the single official source of authoritative, nongovernmental U.S. generally accepted accounting ...Click here for more

Jul 7, 2009

The School of Accountancy is pleased and honored to announce the receipt of a generous gift in excess of $200,000 from the estate of Edna Southworth. The gift will be established as an endowment in support of accounting students at USU. Ms. Southworth was a long-time friend of Professor Jay ...Click here for more

Jun 2, 2009

The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) student chapter recently completed one of its best years ever. For the 14th consecutive year and the longest streak in the nation, USU’s chapter received the “Gold Level Award of Excellence” designation from the national IMA organization. Of the ...Click here for more

May 4, 2009

The School of Accountancy is pleased to announce that Professor Jeffrey T. Doyle has been named as recipient of the 2009 Eldon J. Gardner Teacher of the Year Award at Utah State University. Professor Doyle holds the George S. Eccles Chair in Capital Markets Research in the School of ...Click here for more

Apr 7, 2009

The SOA is pleased to announce that KPMG partner, Eric Rasmussen, is our 2009 distinguished alumnus award recipient. Eric was born and reared near USU, and his work with KPMG next takes him to Washington D.C. where he will have primary responsibility for the firm’s engagement with the U.S. ...Click here for more

Mar 4, 2009

Jim Quigley is a ’74 graduate of the School of Accountancy and the Global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte. Jim and Bonnie have a long and steady history of providing scholarship support for USU students, and have brought that support to an even higher level this year with a generous ...Click here for more

Feb 9, 2009

The 2008 study just released by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) reported that USU School of Accountancy students were in the Top 5 in the country with respect to candidates holding advanced degrees who took and passed all parts of the uniform CPA exam! ...Click here for more