The UCA chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the honors organization for accounting majors, hosted Meet the Firms on Sept. 28 in the Student Center Ballroom on the UCA Campus. Meet the Firms is an opportunity for accounting employers and accounting majors to meet and mingle.
Meet the Firms allows both students and potential employers the opportunity to meet and discuss potential employment in a somewhat informal setting. Many firms send recent UCA graduates as representatives.
This year, 49 students and 15 accounting employers attended Meet the Firms. Public Accounting Firms attending included BKD, Beall Barclay, Bell & Co., Cobb & Suskie, Conner & Sartain, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Hudson Cisne, JPMS Cox, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Thomas and Thomas. Corporations in attendance were Wal-Mart and Windstream, and Government Agencies were Arkansas Legislative Audit and Department of Finance and Administration. In addition, Becker CPA review was there to tell students about upcoming changes in the CPA exam. A great turnout of both employers and students made for a very successful event.
A great deal of the credit for the success of Meet the Firms should be attributed to the dedicated students of the UCA chapter of Beta Alpha Psi as well as their faculty advisors, Dr. Stephanie Watson and Dr. Trish Mounce.