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June 1, 2016
Here is a wrap up of significant events for the
Spring, Summer, and Fall thus far for 2016
We were invited to the Annual Blue Santa Christmas Luncheon. This event is co-sponsored by the San Antonio CPA Society and the San Antonio Police Department.
Participants donate toys for those kids who would otherwise go without during the season.
We were guests of the newly opened PwC group,thanks to Susan Hough for the invitation.
San Antonio Institute of Internal Auditors held its annual day long CPE conference on February 24 at the La Cantera Conference Center.
TAMUSA students Brianna Casillas, Yarisa Ramon, and Demetrius Williams helped with registration and other duties. They attended some of the conference events. Read the whole story at this link.
Nelson Thomas was our FEI Student of the Year. He is now serving as our Accounting Tutor.
Mandy Student was our TAMUSA Accounting Student of the Year. Mandy tutored in accounting, finance, quantitative methods, and statistics. She became a full time internal auditor with Frost Bank this semester, Congratulations Mandy!
We will be welcoming a new member to the Accounting Advisory Committee. At the SA CPA luncheon honoring area students like Mandy, above, we sat with Laborde and Associates. Frank Laborde told me he looked at the map of where San Antonio CPAs were located. He felt there was an opportunity on the South Side. So he relocated from north San Pedro to 1518 South Flores. He moved both his office, and bought the structure next door, and converted that to his home. I gather he has a large contingent of small businesses on our growing south side. I invited him to join our group and he readily agred. Frank served for several years in a similar capacity at UTSA where he graduated in accounting. I look forward to drawing on his expertise in this area. Learn more at the Laborde website.
Here is a photo of Frank at left shot during one of the firm's annual get togethers known as El Grito.
Professor Elam had over 20 students present at the second annual Student Research Symposium held the last week in April at Main Campus.
Cecilia Tankersly, Secretary of San Antonio Institute of Internal Auditors, visited with our students during the presentations on that Saturday. Cecilia is an Internal Auditor with the San Antonio Water System. Thanks for sharing your experiences with our students Cecilia!
Learn more about the SA Chapter here!
Other students presented during multiple time slots that morning.
Greg Martinez, Jason Foster, and James Lewis are featured in a video clip displayed on the website of the Socionomics Institute. Click here to learn what they discovered.
Prof Elam interviewed Keriann McSweeney the new Manager of RGP.
She transferred from the Los Angeles office and plans to double the business RGP is doing in this market.
Thursday Sept 22, 2016
Three TAMUSA students officially joined the IIA and attended Wednesday Sept 21 CPE presentation of Words Don't Lie bu People Do, Interview Essentials Through Linguistic Lie Detection.
National expert Nejolla Korris made a day long presentation on how to detect lies using analytic techniques. Did the person refer to
my Wife Maria
My Wife
that woman I am married to
see the difference of degree?
As you can see Nejolla easily engaged the SA II A group.
Here Renita visits with an HEB internal auditor.
Jennifer Dirks and were likewise engaged with auditors from the NE ISD.
It was a packed house with some 190 internal auditors in attendance.
TAMUSA students attended the SA CPA Fall Accounting Careers Workshop Friday Sept 30.
Professor Dennis Elam accompanied Matt Lampert, Executive Director of the Socionomics Institute and Alan Hall, Senior Researcher at the Institute to the Mood Conference at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. The event was held the first weekend in May. Alan Hall reviewed his findings on how negative mood often results in epidemics. Matt Lampert related findings on mood and elections. Professor Elam participated in the final wrap up panel discussion along with the Keynote Speakers at the Conference.
At right Warwick Professor Tom Docherty, Organizer Birgit Birdenbach, Alan Hall, and Matt Lampert ready the computer for Alan's presentation.
Professor Elam was placed on the wrap up panel of the keynote speakers at the end of the conference.
View his remarks on socionomic casualty here.
Dennis Elam was one of the first to be interviewed on Mark Goldman's podcast. Mark, Past President SA CPA Society, is an accounting recruiter. His podcasts will feature individuals reflecting on their careers in accounting.
Listen to the conversation here!
Publications
Professors Dennis Elam and Richard Green paper, The Price is Right: A Socionomic Inquiry into Traditional Valuation Models appears in Issue 15, Volume 2 2015 for the Southwestern Business Administration Journal.
Associate Professor Dennis Elam was featured on Pop Trends Price Culture, an Elliott Wave International podcast. Professor Elam uses socionomics to describe how social mood has shaped the careers of black comedians from 1966 - 1984. Socionomics is the predictive social science which postulates that endogenously generated mood determines societal events.
Professor Elam's research interest contemplates how social mood shapes events. Examples include the repeal of financial legislation , the adoption of regulation, how mood affects mergers and acquisitions, and how the IFRS GAAP convergence failed over negative social mood
Professor Elam spoke at the Social Mood Conference in April in Atlanta.
On Sunday he hosted and spoke at a breakfast seminar on Getting the Word Out on Socionomics.
And here is an article featured on the Socionomist Site.
Professor Elam is completing a Massive Online Open Course on Socionomics. Coordinating with the Socionomics Institute, the launch date will be prior to the fall semester.
Professor Gilbert Barrera is near completion on a paper regarding Internal Revenue Code 351. The paper examines the taxability of a corporation under IRC 351 and GAAP. Professor Barrera spoke to the SanAntonio Institute of Management Accountants October 16 and 17.
Human Resources
Associate Professor Judy Lewis retired this Spring.
New hires include newly graduating PhD student Bue Lee.
Blue Lee completed her PhD at the University of Houston. Previous degrees include a Master in Finance at the University of Rochester and a BBA at Korea University.
She is a Chartered Financial Analyst CFA since 2009. Blue is also a CPA in the Republic of Korea as well as a Certified Tax Accountant. She workked for PwC in Seoul Korea from 2001-2007 in both tax and audit.
Texas A & M University San Antonio
Michael O'Brien has been named as the new Provost.
Freshmen Students will be admitted for the first time in Fall, 2017. Some sophomores are also anticipated to join the campus. Our own Nancy Batch
will be teaching the sophomore level accounting classes.
Construction should soon begin on a privately owned dormitory. Slated for completion by Fall, 2018, it will have space for 350 students.