{"id":5771,"date":"2005-12-01T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:04:52","slug":"master-of-accounting-program-graduates-twenty-eight-students-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2005\/12\/master-of-accounting-program-graduates-twenty-eight-students-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of Accounting program graduates twenty-eight students in October."},"content":{"rendered":"


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Members of the sixth cohort of the College\u2019s Master of Accounting (MACC) program graduated on October 21, 2005. The approach of Hurricane Wilma did not damage the good spirits of the 28 graduates and guests\u2014totaling seventy people\u2014who attended the event at the Rusty Pelican Restaurant. <\/span><\/p>\n

Students made awards to fellow cohort members and to faculty. They voted Gloria Xu<\/strong> most dedicated student, and Eduardo Alvarez<\/strong>, most knowledgeable. The students named Dasaratha Rama<\/strong>, professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, as most helpful professor, and designated Lewis F. Davidson<\/strong>, professor of accounting and faculty director of the MACC program, as most challenging professor.<\/p>\n

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Andres Suarez<\/strong> (BA \u201999) received an award as the student with the highest grade point average (GPA).<\/p>\n

\u201cI always liked accounting,\u201d said Suarez, who majored in finance in the College as an undergraduate and in 1997 began working at Regions Bank, where he currently is a senior credit analyst in its international division. \u201cGetting this degree was always at the back of my mind.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

He needed to complete a number of pre-requisites to get into the program and many friends tried to talk him out of the effort. But he has no regrets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very glad I did it,\u201d he said while acknowledging that it was very challenging. \u201cBecause of the group orientation of the program, we had lots of meetings, so it was quite time consuming.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Not only was he already working, but also he is married and he and his wife were preparing to welcome their first child, who arrived less than a month after the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n

He has no regrets about selecting the College\u2019s School of Accounting for the advanced degree work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at other schools, but I had heard so many good things about the School of Accounting,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd besides, the University already had my heart.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll the students in the cohort\u2014with the exception of the two international ones\u2014have jobs,\u201d said Michael Pischner<\/strong>, program manager of the Master of Accounting, a Friday evening\/all-day Saturday offering that enables participants to complete the degree in ten months.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Members of the sixth cohort of the College\u2019s Master of Accounting (MACC) program graduated on October 21, 2005. The approach of Hurricane Wilma did not damage the good spirits of the 28 graduates and guests\u2014totaling seventy people\u2014who attended the event at the Rusty Pelican Restaurant. Students made awards to fellow cohort members and to faculty. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,559,710,1037,1237,1577,1643,1801],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24494,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions\/24494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}