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UP Accounting Team Takes Second Place In National Competition

lippman copyA team of University of Portland students finished second in the 2015 AICPA Accounting Competition, held recently in Durham, North Carolina. The UP students’ finish earned a $3,000 award for the University, and the team received a $10,000 award to be split among team members.

The team consisted of students Isaac Mansuetti, Lance Chee, and Connor Ward, all juniors, and UP accounting professor Ellen Lippman, who served as faculty advisor. UP accounting teams have entered the competition twice, taking first with a team of four seniors and this year’s second place finish with three juniors.

Fifty-seven student teams entered the competition and were whittled down to 15 semi-final teams. Those teams received an additional challenge and submitted a video plan, which was reviewed by a panel of judges and voted on by the public (which included votes by UP faculty, staff, and students). The three teams with the best proposals and highest grades made it to the finals to present in person in Durham.

The competition was hosted on the AICPA’s ThisWayToCPA website, which provides tools, articles, and resources to accounting students and CPA Exam candidates.

For more information contact the Pamplin School of Business at 7224 or bus-up@up.edu.

UP Accounting Team Advances to National Finals

franzhallFour University of Portland accounting students won the regional round of the KPMG Case Competition in Chicago this past weekend. The team, made up of Erika Schlotfeldt, Jessie Robinson, Emily Glaser, and Courtney Lemon, beat teams from University of Missouri, University of Illinois, University of Washington, DePaul, Colorado State, and Wisconsin. The UP accounting team will now travel to New York at the end of February for the U.S. finals, where it will compete against other regional teams, including Howard University, Boston College, and University of Michigan.

The UP accounting team took first place in a KPMG accounting competition leading up to its Chicago appearance, beating three teams from University of Oregon and Oregon State University.

For more information on the University of Portland accounting program and competitive accounting teams, contact Ellen Lippman, business administration, at 7268 or lippman@up.edu.