On May 2, 2011, approximately 484 students in the R. Kirk Landon Undergraduate School and approximately 301 in the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School made the transition from college student to college graduate in ceremonies for the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). Of the graduate students, six earned a joint […]
Author: Beverly Z. Welber
Current and future accountants celebrate accomplishments.
Almost 200 people, about half of them from area accounting firms and companies, enjoyed the festivities at the Second Annual School of Accounting Awards Banquet, held April 30, 2011 at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa. The event acknowledges the achievements of two student organizations at Florida International University (FIU): ALPFA at FIU and Beta […]
Albert Morrison Jr. honored at event and through new scholarship.
Albert Morrison Jr., founder of the accounting firm Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra and its chairman beginning in 1971, was always a good friend to Florida International University (FIU) and its College of Business Administration, particularly the School of Accounting. After he passed away on December 31, 2009, some of those whose lives he had […]
Stefanie Anding joins college as director of business development.
Stefanie Anding (EMBA ’10) has been appointed director of business development in the Office of Advancement, Alumni and Corporate Relations in Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration. In this position, her focus will be external relations in the community, for example by representing the business school in various professional organizations and identifying or […]
FIU’s undergraduate international business program among the country’s best in new Bloomberg Businessweek ranking.
In 2011, international business joined a list of fourteen specialties in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of undergraduate business programs by specialty. The R. Kirk Landon Undergraduate School at Florida International University (FIU) was among the top in the country in this specialty, ranking 21st. “Since international business is one of our strategic areas of focus, we […]
Faculty Notes: May 2011
School of Accounting Yunhao Chen, assistant professor, and Xiaoquan Jiang, assistant professor, Department of Finance and Real Estate, won a 2011 Kauffman Professorship for their proposal titled “Risk assessment and business valuation of new entrepreneur companies in Latin America and South Florida.” Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Faisal Kaleem, adjunct, was interviewed on […]
New Employee: Brandon Garland
Brandon Garland has joined the Office of Finance and Administration in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University as administrative coordinator. In this position, he coordinates and provides administrative management for the operations for the office and currently is working on its Policies and Procedures Manual. Garland has an MBA and a BBA […]
International MBA ranked among world’s top 50 by AméricaEconomía for eighth consecutive year.
AméricaEconomía, the leading business magazine in Latin America, has released its 2011 rankings of exceptional graduate business programs globally and in Latin America. Once again, the Chapman Graduate School at Florida International University (FIU) has been ranked among the top 50 business schools worldwide for its full-time International MBA. This puts the Chapman School in […]
Undergraduates debate the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards.
A year ago, graduate students in the Master of Accounting (MACC) program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) debated the question “Should the United States adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) now being used by more than 100 countries?” This spring, the first IFRS event for accounting undergraduates took […]
In Memoriam: Marguarette Johnson
Marguarette Johnson, a longtime and valued staff member of the School of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), passed away on April 5, 2011. She began her career at FIU as a college work study student in 1979, and was hired in the School of Accounting as a secretary. […]