Sierra Ladin never set out to teach herself to code in Python. With a month to fill between the end of her junior year and an internship in analytics with AT&T, she figured she’d bone up on the basics to better communicate with the programmers with whom she would be working.
Each year, the Accounting Department celebrates the accomplishments of its faculty, staff and students at its awards and recognition event. This year's highlight was the announcement of the Accounting Hall of Fame inductees. Honorees are nominated by their peers and reviewed by an Accounting Advisory Board committee.
After weeks of preparation and anticipation, six College of Business juniors achieved 3rd place in the final round of Deloitte’s 2021 Audit Innovation Campus Challenge on April 9.
After watching companies commit to the hassle and expense of shareholder perks, a College of Business finance and real estate researcher asked the obvious question: Why the generosity?
Among more than 800 schools measured, the College of Business’s Department of Accounting stands in the top 10 percent worldwide for overall research breadth according to the 2020 Brigham Young University accounting research productivity rankings.
Over the next five years, Hilla Skiba, an associate professor in the CSU College of Business Department of Finance and Real Estate and a Chartered Financial Analyst, hopes to better understand money managers’ decisions around the world and understand the implications of their strategies on individuals’ funds and worldwide markets.
Harry Turtle, a professor of finance at CSU’s College of Business, has co-authored an award-winning working paper that suggests genetic traits to some degree can predict an individual’s participation in the stock market.
“Although it can be really scary and hard and it’s a lot of work, it really pays off in the end to just put yourself out there.”
Commencement is always an occasion to celebrate, but the Spring 2020 graduates’ perseverance in the face of a worldwide pandemic is an even larger reason to rejoice. CSU College of Business Dean Beth Walker’s message to students receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees salutes their efforts, both on campus and as professionals helping business lead the world’s recovery efforts.
Marty found her passion for technology in high school, working with computers and trying her hand at coding. Seeing an opportunity to translate her skills in tech more broadly, Marty decided to major in business and add a concentration in computer information systems.