{"id":9207,"date":"2010-08-20T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:08:45","slug":"accounting-major-wins-national-student-of-the-year-award-from-alpfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/08\/accounting-major-wins-national-student-of-the-year-award-from-alpfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Accounting major wins \u201cNational Student of the Year\u201d award from ALPFA."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the fourth time, and for the second consecutive year, ALPFA named a Florida International University (FIU) student \u201cNational Student of the Year.\u201d Christopher Houseman<\/strong> (BACC \u201910) joins Daniel Zamora<\/strong>, Krystel Ramos<\/strong> (MACC \u201908, BACC \u201907) and Zameer Upadhya<\/strong> (BACC \u201902) as the winner of the highest student award given by the organization. In addition, a team of five students competed in the KPMG case competition, advancing to the final six from a field of 25.<\/p>\n

\"Christopher
Christopher Houseman receives his award as ALPFA National Student of the Year from Manny Espinoza, ALPFA CEO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 40 students from ALPFA at FIU<\/a>—the largest student chapter in the country—attended the ALPFA National Convention, held July 31-August 4, 2010 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.<\/p>\n

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The ALPFA at FIU contingent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Winner focused on helping ALPFA at FIU members prepare for their careers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Houseman began the Master of Accounting (MACC) program in the School of Accounting immediately after graduating, completed an internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and is working as a graduate advisor for the MACC and Executive Master of Science in Taxation while he completes his masters. He has accepted a full-time job at PwC in their assurance practice.<\/p>\n

Among his many achievements as president of ALPFA at FIU, he organized programs to \u201cshow the members the range of opportunities in the field\u201d and networking events with the Miami chapter of ALPFA.<\/p>\n

KPMG case competition tests students\u2019 research and presentation skills.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a shy person and wanted to step out of my comfort zone,\u201d said Teresa Hernandez<\/strong>, captain of the case competition team, who also participated in the Johnson & Johnson and the PwC xTax competitions.<\/p>\n

\"KMPG
KMPG case competitors from ALPFA at FIU from left to right: Daniel Lopera, Bryan Quadros, Teresa Hernandez, Michelle Merz and Yasnay Montalvo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Describing the preparation for the KPMG competition as \u201cvery challenging,\u201d Hernandez and her four teammates, \u201call very self-motivated,\u201d researched the case for four months.<\/p>\n

\u201cMembers of ALPFA at FIU have once again made us very proud,\u201d said Ruth Ann McEwen<\/strong>, the school\u2019s director. \u201cThey continue to demonstrate their knowledge and initiative, both in their ongoing work for the organization on campus and at each year\u2019s national convention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the fourth time, and for the second consecutive year, ALPFA named a Florida International University (FIU) student \u201cNational Student of the Year.\u201d Christopher Houseman (BACC \u201910) joins Daniel Zamora, Krystel Ramos (MACC \u201908, BACC \u201907) and Zameer Upadhya (BACC \u201902) as the winner of the highest student award given by the organization. In addition, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":9226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2507],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207"}],"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=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29535,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/29535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}