Accounting & Information Systems eNews Happy summer, alumni and friends! In this eNewsletter, we want to share with you some of the department’s news, as well as student and faculty accomplishments. Please share any feedback you have with us at acct@broad.msu.edu. |
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Celebrating our Graduates
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This May, approximately 93 students graduated with their B.A. in Accounting and 86 graduated with their M.S. in Accounting. |
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Board of Trustees Award Five Broad accounting majors were recognized with the Board of Trustees Award for having a 4.0 GPA, the highest scholastic average, at the close of their last semester at MSU. Congratulations to Devin J. Brust, Xinjia (Jocelyn) Chen, Laura A. Hall, Justin J. Keppler, Michael L. McCarthy, and Dana E. Scheuer on this outstanding accomplishment! |
Accounting Students Receive MAF Scholarships Each year, the Michigan Accountancy Foundation awards scholarships to deserving accounting students at Michigan's colleges and universities. The MAF scholarship program seeks to build diversity within the profession and to assist current accounting majors in funding their fifth/graduate year. Through generous support from members of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, professional firms and other CPA leaders, each student receives $5,000 toward their final year of education. Congratulations to Prisca Mbuyu and Jackson Morse on receiving these highly competitive awards! |
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Celebrating Scholarship Recipients and Donors |
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Each spring, we celebrate our scholarship recipients and recognize our scholarship donors in an electronic publication. If you missed it, please take a moment to view it. With the support of our generous donors, the department was able to award $467,000 to 132 deserving students and $331,000 to support 10 graduate teaching assistants. |
Broad Spartans Place Second at National Diversity Case Competition |
Broad accounting major, Walter Kearney II, was part of the team that placed second at the 12th annual National Diversity Case Competition hosted by Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Other team members included finance major Vineeth Kallumkal, marketing major Morgan Persell, and supply chain management major Dakarai Young. They were mentored by Associate Dean and Professor Matt Anderson and Scot Wright, the Broad College’s DEI program manager. This year, the case was centered on designing a solution to clean up and mitigate future pollution caused by 3M’s manufacturing plants across the United States. The Broad team’s recommendation was to create committees of 3M representatives and members of the community affected by the pollution. The committees would work in tandem to bring to light the unique challenges each stakeholder faced and work together to come up with solutions to clean up these problems. Their inspiration came from the idea of restorative justice; they believe it is imperative to include aggrieved parties in solutions that would further impact their communities. |
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Research in the News Throughout the year, faculty research and expertise are picked up in various news outlets. Here are just a few: Wayne Nesbitt, assistant professor of accounting and information systems, spoke to WOOD TV News 8 on April 20 to discuss the Michigan Senate’s recent repeal of a state law banning the cohabitation of unmarried couples and how the repeal would affect taxes. An article was also published at UPmatters.com. Severin Grabski, professor of accounting and information systems, was quoted in a TechwireAsia article on MonsoonSIM and the digital transformation of business education. Anjana Susarla, Omura-Saxena Professor in Responsible AI, was a guest on a Behind the Headlines podcast to discuss what would happen if Twitter failed. It was republished at 48 TownNews.com outlets. Also, her Conversation article on what the world would lose with the demise of Twitter was published at Salon.com. |
Faculty Contributions to the Profession Ken Bills has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, where he will join several of the top auditing scholars in the world in shaping the subfield's scholarship. John Jiang has been named President-elect of the American Accounting Association's Financial Accounting & Reporting Section! FARS is the largest of the AAA sections, and John's election reflects the esteem with which he is held as one of our profession's senior and most distinguished scholars. Shannon Mulally has been named Vise President-elect for Leadership Development of the AAA's Leadership Section. Under Shannon's direction, our M.S. Accounting program is known for its quality and innovation. |
What We're Working on... The Power of First Impressions John Jiang, Eli Broad Endowed Professor in Accounting, Isabel Wang, Deloitte/Michael Licata Professor in Accounting, along with coauthors Xing Huang and Zoran Ivkovic, examined the role of first impressions in angel investor decision-making. Video stills of entrepreneurs pitching on the Shark Tank show and in Startup Battlefield competitions yielded six measures of first impressions of entrepreneurs’ facial traits (competence, confidence, trustworthiness, the ability to handle pressure, physical attractiveness, and likability) and two principal components: one that captures general ability and the other that contrasts charm and managerial ability. The authors found positive associations between both components and the likelihood of entrepreneurs receiving an investment offer or winning a competition round. Post-event business outcome analyses reveal that investors internalize entrepreneurs’ general ability rationally but exhibit irrational tendencies when internalizing entrepreneurs’ charm and managerial ability. Investment experience mitigates investors’ irrational use of charm and managerial ability cues. The research is published in the Journal of Financial Economics. |
Have a great summer! This news is brought to you by the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Michigan State University. Contact us at (517) 355-7486 or acct@broad.msu.edu |
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Accounting and Information Systems
Eli Broad College of Business, 632 Bogue St. Rm N270
East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
(517) 355-7486 | broad.msu.edu |
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