{"id":31219,"date":"2018-10-05T07:26:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=31219"},"modified":"2018-12-13T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:18:59","slug":"hard-work-makes-for-a-gold-year-for-beta-alpha-psi-at-fiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2018\/10\/hard-work-makes-for-a-gold-year-for-beta-alpha-psi-at-fiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard work makes for a \u201cGold\u201d year for Beta Alpha Psi at FIU."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beta Alpha Psi FIU\u2019s executive board for Fall 2018 (l. to r) celebrates at the organization\u2019s national conference: Elias Gonzalez, Julio Galvez, Jessica Carrasco, Jimmy Carmenate (faculty advisor), William Roger, Sam Carasa, Alexis Lyew, Joaquin Garcia, Loidys Scott.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A record-breaking year for member involvement and new, innovative programming helped Beta Alpha Psi\u2019s FIU chapter once again win Gold Chapter status, placing in the top three percent of chapters worldwide.<\/p>\n

Gold Chapter status, awarded during the organization\u2019s annual conference in August to the top 10 of 328 worldwide chapters, is a point of pride for the Eta Iota chapter at FIU. The chapter has consistently excelled in member engagement, career education and community service.<\/p>\n

In 2017-8, the chapter broke its own record for hours by members, a factor in the Gold status, noted president William Roger. It also focused on innovation and inclusivity, as well as new initiatives focused on both building career preparation and philanthropic service opportunities for members.<\/p>\n

To qualify for the annual award, \u201ceach year, we have to do something different and something better,\u201d said chapter advisor Jimmy Carmenate, a School of Accounting<\/a> faculty member. Chapters must produce a video highlighting that work to qualify for the award. This year\u2019s diverse initiatives included a school beautification project and clean-up effort after Hurricane Irma, and also focused on career skills and service.<\/p>\n

Professional firms, who want to promote careers in accounting, finance and management information systems to younger audiences, look to Beta Alpha Psi-FIU members to help build bridges through volunteering at organizations like Junior Achievement. \u00a0The organization also helped promote the study of business analytics, an area of rising importance in the accounting and finance professions. Members spoke to FIU undergraduate accounting classes about the new Master of Accounting track in data analytics, a program designed to meet these needs.<\/p>\n

Another chapter highlight: a seminar on ethics, featuring a well-known speaker, which won an award from the national organization. Programming also included a dining etiquette workshop, an important facet in developing \u201csoft skills\u201d for the job search process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn interviews, and especially in Miami,\u201d Roger said, \u201ceverything revolves around food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Changing lives, channeling success. <\/em><\/p>\n

Roger can attest to the difference Beta Alpha Psi can make in a student\u2019s life. After two years as a student athlete majoring in engineering, he switched majors and joined the FIU chapter of the accounting honor society in spring 2017 after hearing about it from a friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seemed very authentic, more like a family atmosphere,\u201d he said. Putting baseball behind him, he attended virtually every meeting, and put his energy into becoming active as possible. Within a year, he was chosen as president. After he graduates in December 2018, he\u2019ll start an internship at PwC.<\/p>\n

He sees strong similarities between the pursuit of athletic excellence and the work of Beta Alpha Psi. \u201cAthletics taught me about dedication and motivation, and about limits. I always felt I could do more, and I learned I like accomplishing things,\u201d he said. \u201cBeta Alpha Psi brought that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Roger, executive board members for Fall 2018 are Elias Gonzalez, president-elect; Alexis Lyew, vp of membership; Jessica Carrasco, vp of professional affairs; Julio Galvez, vp of service and reporting; Joaquin Garcia, treasurer; and Sam Carasa,\u00a0vp of information technology.<\/p>\n

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A record-breaking year for member involvement and new, innovative programming helped Beta Alpha Psi\u2019s FIU chapter once again win Gold Chapter status, placing in the top three percent of chapters worldwide. Gold Chapter status, awarded during the organization\u2019s annual conference in August to the top 10 of 328 worldwide chapters, is a point of pride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":31223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[238,1301,2388],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219"}],"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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31231,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions\/31231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}