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Pro baseball data indicates first impressions last , redirectFirst impressions count, as any job seeker knows. New research now shows that such early appraisals can shape your career for years, long after they stop being valid.
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Accounting researcher studies why executives behave badly , redirectFor his scholarly research, Robert Davidson has employed licensed private investigators and through them purchased several thousand criminal background checks.
Date: Jun 24, 2020 -
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Debra A. Salbador honored with emerita status , redirectDebra A. Salbador, associate professor of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of associate professor emerita by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Jun 18, 2020 -
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Congratulations to our ACIS Graduates! , article Date: Jun 17, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2020 promotions, tenure, continued appointments , redirectThe Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved the following promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 2 meeting.
Date: Jun 04, 2020 -
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Congratulations to our MACIS Graduates! , article Date: May 21, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech offers resources, advice for students scrambling to find jobs, internships during pandemic , redirectTake Drew Roberson-Gouge, a Virginia Tech senior studying accounting and information systems and mathematics who landed a summer internship in California with KPMG, an accounting firm. During spring break just before the outbreak began to affect travel and shut down businesses, Roberson-Gouge and his friends flew to California to look for housing.
Date: May 17, 2020 -
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New graduates advised: Mentor students get involved as active alumni , redirectWith commencement around the corner, Virginia Tech is getting ready to celebrate its new graduates in the Class of 2020 and welcome a whole new cohort of alumni.
Date: May 11, 2020 -
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Accounting grad the embodiment of Ut Prosim , articleWhen Andrew Igo ’19, M.S. ’20, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma as a middle school student, he learned very quickly that he was not fighting alone. His family and friends formed ‘Team Igo,’ sporting t-shirts supporting him in his battle against the bone and soft tissue cancer, even going so far as to help renovate his family’s basement into a ‘man cave’ where Igo could recover from his bi-weekly chemotherapy treatments. Igo carried that motivation with him to Blacksburg, where he became involved with the Appalachia Service Project at Virginia Tech (ASP-VT) shortly after beginning his freshman year.
Date: Apr 24, 2020 -
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Chun Fong Discovered Innumerable Opportunites in ACIS , article Date: Apr 01, 2020 -
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May commencement ceremonies to move online; senior celebration in Lane Stadium planned for September , redirectAmid a worldwide effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, Virginia Tech will move its commencement activities online this spring and invite all graduating students and two guests to campus this fall to celebrate commencement with a senior tailgate, an “Enter Sandman” entrance into Lane Stadium, and complimentary attendance at the Sept. 26 home football game.
Date: Mar 20, 2020 -
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Hillison’s research focuses on detecting corporate frauds , articleToday, Sean Hillison, an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems (ACIS), is celebrating the imminent publication of a co-authored research paper. The paper, Revising Audit Plans to Address Fraud Risk: A Case of “Do as I Advise, Not as I Do?”, has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research, a leading peer-reviewed academic journal.
Date: Feb 27, 2020 -
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Delia Valentine Awarded Deloitte Doctoral Fellowship in Accounting , article Date: Feb 26, 2020 -
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Kenneth Cooke Named 2020 Top 50 Financial Leader , article Date: Feb 13, 2020 -
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Linda Wallace named Konrad W. Kubin Senior Faculty Fellow , redirectLinda Wallace, associate professor of accounting and information systems (ACIS) in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been named the Konrad W. Kubin Senior Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Jan 21, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech receives top placements in U.S. News & World Report’s online rankings , redirectVirginia Tech’s online master’s degree in information technology is the nation’s fourth best and ranked No. 3 for veterans. The online graduate engineering program moved up six places to No. 10, according to the 2020 U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of the Best Online Programs.
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John Maher named Thomas M. Wells and Kathy Dargo Professor , redirectJohn Maher, professor and head of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been named the Thomas M. Wells and Kathy Dargo Professor in Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Jan 10, 2020 -
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Andrew Acito Quoted in Wall Street Journal , article Date: Dec 12, 2019 -
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Dwight Shelton honored with emeritus status , articleDwight Shelton, who retired as Virginia Tech’s vice president for finance and chief financial earlier this fall, has been conferred the title of Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Nov 22, 2019 -
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Pamplin professor’s research casts doubt regarding controversial regulation , articleWhen the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a nonprofit corporation created to oversee the audits of public companies, enacted the controversial Rule 3211, Sarah Stein knew she had to investigate its effects.
Date: Oct 30, 2019 -
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Eugene Seago honored with emeritus status , articleEugene Seago, professor of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of Curling Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Oct 25, 2019 -
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Grant Watson Awarded PCAOB Scholarship , article Date: Oct 21, 2019 -
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Pamplin Engagement Summit drives collaboration to disrupt the status quo of business education , articleThe summit provided an unprecedented opportunity to bring together all senior volunteer leaders as the college transforms the traditional model of education and meets the needs of the 21st century workforce.
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Computer science career fair gives students and companies a distinctive edge , articleFor Case Consulting, a Leesburg, Virginia, software services company serving the needs of the federal government and private industry, the career fair serves as an ideal way to scout for their summer internship program. Owner Paul Farmer, a Virginia Tech accounting and information systems graduate in the Pamplin College of Business, explained this is the only career fair where he recruits in person.
Date: Sep 20, 2019 -
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Pamplin student receives national recognition as she prepares for a future in financial planning , articleFor Genna Coan, the preparation to become a financial planner never stops. It doesn’t stop when the semester ends. It doesn’t even stop to ring the closing bell for the Nasdaq Stock Market. Coan was one of 12 students nationwide to be awarded the $5,000 2019 TD Ameritrade Institutional RIA NextGen Scholarship. The scholarship, which was open to all first-, second-, or third-year students pursuing a degree in finance or financial planning, required applicants to submit an essay as to why they would like to work in financial planning along with a letter of reference from a personal or academic contact. To celebrate the achievement, the scholarship recipients were hosted by TD Ameritrade Institutional on a visit to New York City and the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, where the students helped ring the stock exchange’s closing bell on July 23, 2019.
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ACIS Junior Selected for KPMG Global Advantage Program , article Date: Aug 14, 2019 -
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ACIS Awards Over $370,000 in Scholarships , article Date: Aug 13, 2019 -
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Nadia Rogers appointed to Virginia Board of Accountancy , articleNadia A. Rogers, associate professor of practice in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems of the Pamplin College of Business, has been appointed by Gov. Ralph Northam to serve on the Virginia Board of Accountancy.
Date: Aug 12, 2019 -
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Andrew Acito joins accounting and information systems faculty August 1, 2019 , articleAndrew Acito has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.
Date: Aug 01, 2019 -
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2nd Annual Accounting Research Conference a Success , article Date: Jul 22, 2019 -
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Sarah Stein wins best paper award for developing a new learning resource on analytics , articleStudents entering the accounting profession today must be more proficient in data analytics. Now, they can hone their skills with the help of an award-winning paper.
Date: Jul 15, 2019 -
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Industry turns to Newport News program to build data science workforce , articleMike Melo, CEO of ITA International and a 1979 graduate of Virginia Tech, saw opportunity when he heard about an Outreach and International Affairs program in India to train data scientists.
Date: Jun 18, 2019 -
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Dwight Shelton honored with 2019 Virginia CFO Award , articleVirginia Tech Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Dwight Shelton has been honored with the 2019 Virginia CFO Award (large nonprofit organization category), sponsored by Virginia Business magazine.
Date: Jun 17, 2019 -
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Pamplin's Accounting & Information Systems Department and KPMG Join Forces , article“The accounting profession is continually evolving, and it is imperative that the education we provide evolves as well so that our graduates are prepared to successfully enter the accounting profession,” stated Nadia Rogers, associate professor of practice in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems (ACIS) and director of the Master of Accounting and Information Systems (MACIS) Program. “We recognize that data and analytics is the wave of the future and have taken the necessary steps to modify our curriculum.”
Date: May 14, 2019 -
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Jacob Shortt Wins Teaching Excellence Award , articleJacob Shortt has been awarded Pamplin's 2019 Certificate of Teaching Excellence. Jacob Shortt has been with Virginia Tech since the Fall of 2016. He has taught Intermediate Accounting Part I and Part II, Accounting Systems and Controls, and most recently a newly created class, Accounting Analytics. Jacob developed the Accounting Analytics course over the Summer of 2018 with the input of his colleagues and through insights gained from the 2018 American Accounting Association Intensive Data and Analytics Summer Workshop. He first taught this course in the Fall of 2018 and continues to teach it.
Date: May 13, 2019 -
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Robert Davidson named William S. Gay Senior Faculty Fellow , articleRobert Davidson, assistant professor of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was recently named the William S. Gay Senior Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: May 06, 2019 -
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Dwight Shelton to retire as vice president for finance and chief financial officer after 40-year career at Virginia Tech , articleDwight Shelton, who has served Virginia Tech in a variety of key administrative capacities over the past 40 years, has announced his retirement as the university’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer.
Date: Apr 24, 2019 -
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John Brozovsky honored with emeritus status , articleJohn Brozovsky, retired associate professor of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of associate professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Date: Apr 18, 2019 -
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MACIS Pizza Party 2019 , article Date: Apr 08, 2019 -
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Pamplin donors were “In” for Giving Day 2019 , articleHundreds of donors supported the Pamplin College of Business during the second annual Virginia Tech Giving Day. During the one-day fundraising event, which began at noon on Tuesday, March 19, and continued until noon on Wednesday, March 20, Pamplin alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends showed their support through donations – online and through various other avenues – as well as tireless promotion of the college throughout the event.
Date: Mar 21, 2019 -
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Student award winners announced , articleThe Pamplin College of Business has announced the recipients of the 2019 undergraduate student awards. The winners are chosen by members of the Undergraduate Awards Committee, which consists of one representative from each of Pamplin’s seven departments. This year’s honorees are seniors Caroline Rector, Jack Holland, and Julisa Perdomo Santos.
Date: Mar 05, 2019 -
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Zachariah Hoyt ACIS major & starting center for Hokies , article Date: Feb 18, 2019 -
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Robert Davidson's recent Corporate Governance Publications , article Date: Feb 04, 2019 -
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Pamplin’s Award-Winning Alumni - 2018 , articleScenes from Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business' Advisory Council meeting in Richmond, Va. on Thursday, December 6, 2018. (David Hungate/ Dominion Images Photography)
Date: Feb 01, 2019 -
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Alumnus parlays pickleball into online retail business , redirect Date: Jan 28, 2019 -
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Alumnus parlays pickleball into online retail business , articleComing out of high school in Virginia Beach, Ethan McAfee looked at Virginia Tech as ahead of the game in technology. The Blacksburg Electronic Village gave students a leg-up on the rapidly growing internet, and he saw the university’s SEED team — a student-run investment portfolio in the Pamplin College of Business — as a unique opportunity.
Date: Jan 28, 2019 -
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George Botic Named PCAOB Director of Registration and Inspections , articleWashington, November 1, 2018 -- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced today that George Botic has been named the director of the Division of Registration and Inspections, the PCAOB’s largest division.
Date: Jan 23, 2019 -
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Two Virginia Tech online graduate education programs are among the top in the country , articleThe university’s online master’s degree in information technology is the nation’s third best and the online graduate engineering programs moved up four places to No. 16, according to the 2019 U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of the Best Online Programs.
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Ling Lisic has Paper Accepted by Contemporary Accounting Research , article Date: Dec 19, 2018 -
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Class of 2018: Accounting student makes the most of opportunities for leadership and service , article“Knowledge and skills are essential, but it is equally imperative to develop yourself as a leader, teammate, and friend. This is the most important lesson I learned as a student in the Pamplin College of Business,” said Helena Snow, of Chester, Virginia, who will graduate from Virginia Tech on Dec. 14 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting and information systems.
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Class of 2018: Accounting student makes the most of opportunities for leadership and service , article“Knowledge and skills are essential, but it is equally imperative to develop yourself as a leader, teammate, and friend. This is the most important lesson I learned as a student in the Pamplin College of Business,” said Helena Snow, of Chester, Virginia, who will graduate from Virginia Tech on Dec. 14 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting and information systems.
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Pamplin raises expectations, makes big strides , articleThe Pamplin College of Business has set its sights higher and made significant strides toward its goals of improving its student experience, faculty research productivity, and community engagement, Dean Robert Sumichrast told the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in a presentation during its Nov. 5 meeting.
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Pamplin alumni and Accenture honored with college awards for career success and service , articleSix alumni and one company were honored recently with 2018 Pamplin Awards - Rising Alumni, Mentoring, Ut Prosim, and Corporate Ambassador awards from the Pamplin College of Business.
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Carissa Malone Awarded AICPA Minority Doctoral Student Fellowship , article Date: Oct 31, 2018 -
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Inaugural Accounting Research Conference a Success , article Date: Jul 01, 2018 -
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Doughtie to receive award for distinguished achievement , redirectLynne Doughtie is a Hokie who is breaking barriers in the business world. Her extraordinary accomplishments throughout her career have landed her a top honor at Virginia Tech — the University Distinguished Achievement Award. She will receive the award during the University Commencement Ceremony on May 11.
Date: May 07, 2018 -
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James Hatch, Mary Nolen Blackwood to be recognized for distinguished service to Virginia Tech , redirectTwo Hokie alumni will receive awards for their significant contributions and service to Virginia Tech during the university’s commencement ceremony on May 11. James Hatch, of Richmond, Virginia, and Mary Nolen Blackwood, of Midlothian, Virginia, are co-recipients of the Alumni Distinguished Service Award.
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Michael Wolfe named Curling Faculty Fellow of Accounting and Information Systems , redirectThe Curling Fellowship in Accounting and Information Systems was established in 2008 through a gift from Doug C. Curling, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from Virginia Tech. The fellowship is intended to help the college recruit and retain outstanding scholars in accounting and to honor Curling’s father, Calvin T. Curling, and uncle, James C. Curling, who also attended Virginia Tech.
Date: Apr 30, 2018 -
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Recipients of the College and Department Awards recognized , articleOn April 5, students, guests, and parents gathered in Owen’s banquet hall to honor the students graduating with distinction and receiving both college-level and departmental awards.
Date: Apr 06, 2018 -
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Hundreds of students honored with academic excellence , articleHundreds of students were honored as Students of Distinction, graduating this May with Summa Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, and Cum Laude. College and departmental awards were also presented.
Date: Apr 05, 2018 -
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Pamplin Professors Pursue Comprehensive Research , articleThe Pamplin College of Business is in the midst of a transformation. Going beyond education, Pamplin is paving the way to a research-based experience. Classes are only one side of the experience. In addition to teaching rigorous courses, Pamplin professors pursue comprehensive research-based answers to the most important questions in the business world.
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Redirect ItemVirginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business joins expanded KPMG Master of Accounting with Data and Analytics Program , redirect
Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business is joining the KPMG Master of Accounting with Data and Analytics Program, a one-of-a-kind initiative that audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG LLP developed to prepare accounting students for the digital marketplace.
Date: Aug 03, 2017
