{"id":10599,"date":"2010-12-27T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2017-11-01T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:44:21","slug":"expo-puts-accounting-finance-and-mis-students-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/12\/expo-puts-accounting-finance-and-mis-students-ahead-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Expo puts accounting, finance and MIS students \u201cAhead of the Game.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

When planning a career event at a university, paying careful attention to the needs of visiting employers and of eager students leads to good results for everyone. That\u2019s why the Ahead of the Game Accounting and Business Expo at Florida International University (FIU) this fall was such a success.<\/p>\n

The expo was hosted by two student accounting organizations in the College of Business Administration that used to have separate career events: Beta Alpha Psi, the international accounting honor society, and ALPFA at FIU, an organization for accounting, finance and business-related majors.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause so many of the accounting firms attended each, it was a better idea to combine these into one expo,\u201d said Gabe Mendoza<\/strong>, president-elect of Beta Alpha Psi. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to overuse our resources. Plus a combination event respects the time of the employers and the students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thirty-five companies and 275 students participated in the on-campus expo, according to Catherine M. Pena<\/strong>, president-elect of ALPFA at FIU. Introductions were made, r\u00e9sum\u00e9s were distributed and conversations ensued as students learned more about the accounting firms and vice versa. Part way through the four-hour event, employers had the opportunity to request that selected students make a second visit to their company table.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAhead of the Game\u201d drew thirty-five companies and 275 students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt was an excellent opportunity for accounting, finance and MIS students in the business school,\u201d Pena said. \u201cWe were very pleased with the feedback we received from employers and students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dawn Lazar <\/strong>(MS \u201906), assistant director of accounting services in Career Management Services, had high praise for Mendoza, Pena and other organizers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a superbly run event, very well thought through,\u201d Lazar said. \u201cThe students benefited from learning to plan such a large-scale program and from the networking opportunities they had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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State Farm was one of the Silver Sponsors for the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another Ahead of the Game Accounting and Business Expo will take place January 28, 2011, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Student organizations give undergrads distinct advantages. <\/em><\/p>\n

It was Mendoza who coined the name for the expo.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttending this event is a smart, proactive move, of course,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the expo\u2019s name also reflects that by being members of our organizations, students are ahead of the career game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of the Game Accounting and Business Expo Sponsors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gold Sponsor:<\/em><\/p>\n

Bank of America<\/p>\n

Silver Sponsors:<\/em><\/p>\n

Becker Professional Education<\/p>\n

BDO<\/p>\n

State Farm<\/p>\n

Sponsors:<\/em><\/p>\n

Alvarez & Marsal<\/p>\n

Berkowitz Dick Pollack & Brant<\/p>\n

CBIZ Goldstein Lewin<\/p>\n

Cherry Bekaert & Holland<\/p>\n

Crowe Horwath<\/p>\n

Deloitte<\/p>\n

Ernst & Young<\/p>\n

From Wall St. to Main St.<\/p>\n

Georgia Pacific<\/p>\n

Goldstein Schechter Koch<\/p>\n

Grant Thornton<\/p>\n

HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities)<\/p>\n

IRS<\/p>\n

Johnson & Johnson<\/p>\n

JP Morgan Chase<\/p>\n

Kane & Co.<\/p>\n

KPMG<\/p>\n

Mallah Furman<\/p>\n

MarcumRachlin<\/p>\n

MBAF<\/p>\n

McGladrey & Pullen<\/p>\n

Ocariz, Gitlin, & Zomerfeld<\/p>\n

PricewaterhouseCoopers<\/p>\n

Prudential<\/p>\n

SEC<\/p>\n

TD Bank<\/p>\n

US Department of Agriculture<\/p>\n

US Census Bureau<\/p>\n

Walt Disney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When planning a career event at a university, paying careful attention to the needs of visiting employers and of eager students leads to good results for everyone. That\u2019s why the Ahead of the Game Accounting and Business Expo at Florida International University (FIU) this fall was such a success. The expo was hosted by two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[586,2507],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29283,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/29283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}