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Date: October 22, 2003
Contact: Carol Connelly,
Director, Media & Communication Services, ext. 5267,
cconnelly@pnc.edu
PNC Students Earn Accounting Competition
Honors
(left to right) PNC students review their
paperwork for the Indiana Certified Public Accountant
Case Study Competition: Jessica Kelly, Misty Speelman,
Bill Mack, faculty advisor, Liz Babcock and Rose Ann
Switt.
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WESTVILLE – Four Purdue University North
Central students brought home third-place honors in the fourth
annual Indiana Certified Public Accountant Society Case Study
Competition held recently in Indianapolis.
Students Jessica Kelly, of LaPorte; Liz
Babcock, of Valparaiso; Misty Speelman, of Knox and Rose Ann
Switt, of San Pierre, were members of the PNC award-winning
team. Bill Mack, associate professor of business, served as
team advisor and mentor.
While this is the fourth year for the state
competition, this is the first year that a group from PNC has
participated. For the contest, teams from 11 Indiana
universities submitted written case studies on the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and its effects on today’s CPA
firms. This legislation established accounting rules and
guidelines for all firms to follow. Six teams were selected as
finalists to present their papers before a panel of four
judges at the Indiana Certified Public Accountant Society
annual meeting. Their assignment was to create a presentation
based on their case study and present it to a panel of judges,
simulating a real-life situation of accountants stating
findings and recommendations to clients or company officers.
Team members spent hours researching and
writing their case, said Mack. One took a week of vacation
time from her job to work on the project. Others spent
countless hours away from their friends, families and work
while toiling on the written case study. Once that was
submitted and the team was notified they qualified for the
next level of competition, they started anew to create an oral
report, complete with a PowerPoint presentation.
PNC is the only campus of its type represented
in the competition.
“It’s wonderful to see students work that hard
and be rewarded for doing so,” Mack said. Each member of the
PNC team was presented with a plaque and check for $500. A
plaque will also be presented for display at PNC.
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