Professor Elam

SA CPA Leaderwship Class

Wed Dec 19, 2018

Will Holisky just ocmppleted SA CPA Leadership Class of  2018.

Will is a TAMUSA graduate, a CPA, and works in audit at Ridout Barrett.

William and Mary wins Socionomics Scholarship

Tuesday Dec18, 2018

Dear Dennis and Peter,

 

Thank you to you and your students for participating in the 2018 Socionomics Foundation Scholarship! We thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your students’ innovative papers. It is wonderful to see students learn about the socionomic perspective, incorporate it into their thinking and apply it in their studies.

 

Dennis -- Your students’ papers were well-researched and professionally written. We were especially impressed with their command of the academic prose. They made great use of SI’s research materials.

 

Peter --  Your students’ papers were engaging reads, and maintained a strong focus on mood / confidence throughout. Thoughtful incorporation of class materials as well.

 

We were impressed by the caliber of submissions from each class. You and your students sure made it tough to select a winner! With that said, we are happy to announce Michael Fairbanks, from the College of William & Mary, as this year’s recipient of the Socionomics Foundation’s $1k scholarship.

 

We’d plan to highlight several papers from each university in an upcoming article in The Socionomist. If you both could provide a quote on what it’s like teaching socionomics to your students, and how the students took to the assignment, we would really appreciate it.

 

And Peter, if you could connect us with Michael, that’d be great. We’d like to interview him briefly with the aim of including a quote or two from him in our Socionomist article.

 

Thank you again. We’re excited that you’re sharing socionomics with your students and hope that you’ll consider participating should our budget allow for another contest next year!

 

All the best for the holidays and the start of the next semester.

 

Warmly,

Alyssa

 

Another Wells Fargo Screw Up

Tuesday Dec 4, 2018

As we say in the ethics class, the CEO sets the tone at the top.

And WFC just cannot seem to shake the never ending run of bad news and mismanagement.

Now WFC is blaming a computer glitch for paper work that resulted in hundreds of home foreclosures.

Read the link as one fellow describes how he and his  son ended up living in a friend's basement for three months.

Enough!  Someone at the FDIC or SEC should simply shut Wells Fargo down and distribute their branches to other banks. That might serve as a decent lesson. Warren Buffet is a big WFC investor, where is he in all this?

Meet Professor Farhat, 34,000 Followers and Growing

Weekend Dec 1 2018

Mark Goldman interviews Professor Farhat on his podcast.

Professor Farhat has some 34,000 followers on his Youtube page.

Blue Santa SA CPA Society Event

Weekend Dec 1 2018

SA CPA Society partners with the SA Police Dept for their annual Blue Santa toy drive. Some  1,800 toys were donated.  The event capped the drive and was held at the

Omni Colonade Hotel.

Fred Timmons, Past President of TSCPA state wide with Renee Foshee. Renee has taught tax classes for us. Padgett Strateman has been acquired by RMS. She and Josh Wagner both left RMS. She is now teaching at Angelo State while maintaining her home here in SA.

 

Susan Hough center right with two ladies that assist her in marketing PwC.  Susan is a long time friend of our campus and

has visited on multiple occasions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is Blue Santa himself with Exec Director Aman da Talaat with SA CPA Society.

I sat with Kim Ford, right, at the KFord table.  Kim has fashioned her firm to be a forensic valuation and wealth management company.

She is a CPA and has certifications in valuation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TAMUSA student Daniel Crain sat with the MGR group. MGR is headed by Mark Goldman, former SA CPA Society President.  MGR is recruits high end accounting professionals for firms in Central Texas.

Mark Goldman center with  the eyeglasses and Bryan Edwards to his left with the beard. Mark and Bryan have one of the best folodexes in town, they know everybody. Mark hosts the podcast Where Accountants Go. I was the second person he interviewed. Click on the link to see the cover of 49 tips for a Successful Accounting Career. I placed a copy on reserve in  the TAMUSA library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The keynote speaker was Anne Krause, Executive Director of HemisFair Conservancy..  After 50 years of near ndglect, Hemisfair is breathing new life

thanks to the efforts of Anne and her Group.  I invited her to speak at our campus.

 

PS Yours Truly with Blue Santa