Beta Alpha Psi earns first-place award

Dr. Mark Lehman honored by the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants. more

Dr. Laurie Burney is awarded a Lean Accounting scholarship. more

Fraud detection is the subject of article by Drs. Lehman and Watson published in the Journal of Forensic Accounting. more

Study of performance measurement systems is the subject of study published by Dr. Laurie Burney in Behavioral Research in Accounting.

Dr. Laurie Burney publishes a cross-disciplinary study on performance measurement systems in Journal of Information Systems.

Horne LLP presents contribution to Adkerson School of Accountancy. more

Junior accounting major Dana Apperson receives prestigious Phi Kappa Phi scholarship. video

Views from December 2007 commencement. video

Senior accounting major Corey Hancock and graduate student Lauren Peach receive scholarships from the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants. video

Meet the Firms scheduled for August 26
Representatives from accounting firms and industries will attend Beta Alpha Psi's annual Meet the Firms event. This career fair is the kickoff for the busy fall recruiting season. Those firms attending include:

Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC
Deloitte & Touche
Ernst & Young
Federal Express
Haddox Reid Burkes & Calhoun PLLC
Horne LLP
International Paper
KPMG
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Rhea & Ivy, P.L.C.
Shearer, Taylor & Co., P.A.
Smith, Turner & Reeves, PA
Stallings & Associates CPA's, PLLC
T.E. Lott & Company, CPA's
Thompson, Dunavant PLC
Watkins Uiberall

Drs. Lehman and Weidenmier publish in The CPA Journal
Detecting Occupational Fraud: Billing Schemes (CPA Journal, April, 2005, pp. 58-61) presents a variety of method for using Microsoft Access to detect some of the classic "red flags" of purchase frauds.

Students to attend Beta Alpha Psi National Meeting
Several officers will attend the national Beta Alpha Psi convention in Anaheim, California on August 7-9. After participating in a service day, the students attended a wide variety of leadership and professional development seminars.

Seniors and Honors Banquet
Seniors, scholarship winners, and student organization officers were honored at a banquet on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at the Hunter Henry Center.

School hosts the MidSouth Accounting Research Consortium
MSU’s School of Accountancy hosted the fourth MidSouth Accounting Research Consortium on April 1, 2005. The consortium is made up of Mississippi State University, the University of Mississippi, and University of Memphis.

The consortium research focused on causes, consequences, and remedies associated with financial distress. When profits are failing, firms search for infusions of capital and strategies for recovery, while auditors face tough decisions about the sort of opinion to provide on the financial statements. The consequences can be severe; keynote speaker, Jan Barton from Emory University, provided 50 years of data illustrating that market participants like credit rating agencies and stock exchange boards are slow to forgive these episodes of distress. The lively meeting provided a review of lessons learned about financial distress and provided a fresh direction for new research.