Professor Elam

SA CPA Society Visits TAMUSA Campus

Friday Sept 14,2018

In our continuing series or Professional Experience in BUAD 3191, we had a presentation about the importance of CPA certification as well as the details of how that is accomplished.

 

Career Services Director Karen Ivy greets  ATKG HR Manager

Annette Goodson and Bryant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above left to right Amanda Talaat from SA CPA Society, Bryant and Annette Goodson with ATKG.

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of good questions from students after wards.

Tutor Hours

Thursday Sept 12 2018

Sylvia is locate in the Tutoring Center on the 2nd floor of CAB at the East end of the building.

 Here's my schedule to provide to your faculty/students as requested:

M-W: 12 - 5

TR: 12 - 4

Just in case, here are all the classes I tutor for:

ACCT 2301 2302 3301 3302 3303 3304 3305 3314

ECON 2301 2302

BUAD 3301

FINC 3337

BLAW 3341

Best Regards,

Sylvia Bolles

Social Media Meeting

Tuesday Sept 11 2018

 

 

 LaunchSA will be on campus tomorrow at 6pm for an information session on their social innovation lab that starts later this month. Our school is participating in this, and Drs. Voges and Black will be participating as guest speakers during the program. We would like to identify up to 5 university affiliated individuals (students, alumni, faculty, staff) to participate in this program. Students can participate either for credit as a business experiential learning class, or not for credit.

 

If you can share this info with interested students either by forwarding this email, posting it as a blackboard announcement, or posting the attached PDF slife to blackboard I would appreciate it

 

Musk Erratic Behavior Brings TSLA Downgrade

Tuesday Sept 11, 2018

More analysts are issuing downgrades on TSLA given the behavior of the CEO.

TSLA has lost 25% of its value since August.

Musk looks a lot less like Henry Ford but a lot more like John DeLorean.

 

Tesla Bond Price Drops, Chief Accountant Leaves after One Month

Weekend  Sept 8, 2018

Wall Street reacts negatively to Musk appearing to smoke marijuana during an interview.

The Chief Accountant resigned after one month on the job citing more pressure than he had anticipated.

Ridout Barrett Presents Sept 6

Friday Sept 7, 2018

Tony Ridout and Will Holisky visited our class this past Thursday.

Tony Ricout, Karen Ivy our Career Service Director, and Will Holisky

 

Centro Embezzlement Detailed

Weekend Sept  2 , 2018

Alicia Padilla admitted embezzling $291,000 from Centro SA last Janiuary.

Amazingly she has yet to be arrested and charged. Centro is a city created entity to improve specific parts of down town. A former deputy city manager was in charge.

Please read the article. We study fraud cases in ACCT 5308 Ethics.  There were numerous red flags such as continual late billings to the city as well as numerous errors and failures to include

adequate documentation.  Finally Centro was unable to pay contractors. And City Manager Sculley and Don Frost were both on the Board.

Where was the oversight?  Oversight was so lax that Padilla  had her ex husband pretending to be a outside auditor assuring the board things were okay. There was no actual audit.

And Paidlla had a history of embezzlement and personal bankruptcy. This is a major internal control failure.

It seems to me that once again volunteer Board Members were not as involved as they should have been. And there should have been hard questions asked when the city reported so many errors by Padilla.

Ridout Barrett Presents Sept 6

Saturday Sept 1 2018

ANTHONY s. (tONY) RIDOUT, CPA, FOUNDING Shareholder of Ridout Barrett & Co., p.c.

Tony received his BBA in Accounting from Southwest Texas State University in 1979. He was an auditor for the State of Texas (University Division) and later worked for a local CPA firm. After obtaining his CPA certificate in 1985, Tony opened his own firm, Ridout Barrett & Co., P.C. in 1986.

Tony has over 35 years of experience working within the construction industry.  He works with subcontractors and general contractors to assist them with their tax and accounting needs.  Tony serves on the Board for the South Texas Surety Assn and Texas Air Conditioning Contractors Assn (San Antonio).  Tony is also an active member in Associated Builders Assn, Hispanic Contractors Assn, Associated General Contractors Assn, American Subcontractors Assn and CFMA- Central Texas.

WILLIAM (WILL) J. HOLISKY III, CPA

ASSISTANT AUDIT MANAGER

 

Will worked for a local CPA firm from 2008 to 2010 while studying Accounting at Texas A&M San Antonio. He received his BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M San Antonio in 2010. He interned at Ridout, Barrett & Co., P.C. during the 2011 tax season and was hired full time in May of 2011. After obtaining his CPA certificate in 2017, Will became an assistant audit manager at Ridout, Barrett & Co., P.C.

Will has over ten years’ experience working in the accounting industry with seven years in the construction industry. He works with subcontractors and general contractors to assist them with their tax and accounting needs. Will serves on the Future Leaders Task Force with the Associated Builders & Contractors Association. Will is also an active member in the Construction Financial Management Association – Central Texas, Associated General Contractors Association, American Subcontractors Association and the San Antonio Chapter CPA Society.

 Learn more about the firm at their Firm Website