The fourth Community College Accounting Teacher Symposium is scheduled for Friday, September 26, 2008.
Brenda Canard with the Internal Revenue Service will discuss the use of your students to offer the VITA tax service. Many college accounting students perform this service for community and campus tax payers. The service introduces accounting students to the real world of client service. And it puts accounting front and center as a service to the community.
Barbara Scoefield PHD CPA University of Dallas will present Winning Classroom Techniques. Barbara has taught at the University of Florida, University of Kentucky, Southeastern Louisiana, and at the University of Texas Permian Basin. She is active with the Dallas Management Accountants and has taken students to their national conference. We look forward to her insight on engaging students in the classroom.
Stephanie Carpenter, President Dallas Institute of Management Accountants, will lead a Roundtable of Certified Management Accountants CMAs. One size no longer fits all in Accounting. Actually only a minority of accountants work for external CPA firms. The CMA is designed to be the right Certification for the Industry Accountant. This group will bring us up to speed on what the CMA designation has meant for their career.
As usual, we will feature ninety minutes for our catered lunch.This leaves plenty of time for networking and visiting with sponsors. The schedule shapes up like this.
8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast and Networking
9:30-11:30 Program for CPE hours
11:30-1:00 PM Catered Lunch and Networking with Sponsors
1:00-3:00 PM Program for CPE Hours
3:00 Beat the DFW traffic Home!
This schedule has proved to be a winning combination. The later start allows attendees to attend from longer distances without the cost and hassle of an overnight stay. The 3:00 PM End Time means that participants are not thrown into 5:00 PM DFW traffic allowing a more relaxed trip back home.
Once again we will meet in our first floor auditorium with theater seating and state of the art audio visual technology. So make plans now to join your Community College Colleagues. Recent forums have attracted Accounting Educators from as far as Midland and Lubbock. We cast a wide net in the DFW metro area attracting educators from Waco to Sherman and Tyler to Fort Worth. And as always admission is free to those interested in furthering Community College Accounting Education.
E mail Dennis Elam, CcATS Director, at delam@unt.edu or call 972 780 3007.
