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| For students and emerging professionals. From the Tennessee Society of CPAs. |
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Volume 2008 Issue 3 | ||||||
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Society News and Updates TSCPA Is Now On Facebook! Nominate a Professor for TSCPA's Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award TSCPA Gives $150,000 in Scholarships to Tennessee Students Congratulations Brandon Lanciloti! Career Advice 10 Things I Learned As A New Hire For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé What To Do When The Internship Ends Money Management A Student's First Experience With Credit You Don't Have To Be Rich To Accumulate Wealth Do You Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck, Too?
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TSCPA has created a Facebook group for students and young professionals. This group serves as a forum for student and young professional members of the Tennessee Society of CPAs to connect with each other as they explore the CPA profession. To become a member of this group, click here. |
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| Nominate a Professor for TSCPA's Distinguished Achievement In Accounting Education Award | ||||||
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Do you have an accounting professor who really goes “above and beyond” to help you succeed? Maybe he/she is great about offering extra help when it’s needed or has a teaching style that really helps you grasp the material. If you have a professor who fits this mold, consider nominating him/her for TSCPA’s Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. Each year, this prestigious award recognizes one Tennessee accounting professor who truly demonstrates an exemplary commitment to education. Nominations are due by Nov. 1, so click here to download a nomination form, and fax it to us at 615/377-3904 or e-mail it to ldeweese@tscpa.com. |
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| TSCPA Gives $150,000 in Scholarships to Tennessee Students | ||||||
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Interested in how you can be a TSCPA scholarship recipient? Applications will be available next spring, so be sure and stop by your accounting department office or visit TSCPA's Web site. Applicants must have completed introductory courses in accounting and/or be majoring in accounting. You must also be a U.S. citizen, legal resident of Tennessee and attending a college or university in Tennessee. Questions about the TSCPA
scholarship program? Contact
Wendy Garvin
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| Congratulations Brandon Lanciloti! | ||||||
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Congratulations to Brandon Lanciloti , who
won the free ExamMatrix CPA Exam review course given away in our April
issue! We'll be giving away an ExamMatrix exam review package (value: $995) in every issue of Next! Click here to enter this issue's drawing. Note: Only TSCPA members are eligible to win. If you're not a member, you should be! Click here to apply. | ||||||
| 10 Things I Learned As A New Hire | ||||||
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The cap and gown are put away. You've spent the last 17 years or so of your life in a classroom: grammar school, middle school, high school, college. As a new hire in the accounting profession, there is no longer a traditional teacher, a traditional classroom and a traditional way of learning.
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| For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé | ||||||
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When a small
consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this
month, the company's president went online to check on a promising
candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois. |
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| What To Do When The Internship Ends | ||||||
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By ,
Young Money,
www.youngmoney.com For students, life has two seasons: the summer and the school year. When the fall semester kicks into high gear, summer activities are soon forgotten as students focus on the coming academic year's challenges. Like a summer romance, summer internships become ancient history when this annual rite of passage takes place. But looking at your internship as just that thing you did last summer is a big mistake. Click here to read the full article. |
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| A Student's First Experience with Credit | ||||||
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Care One Credit Counseling, www.careonecredit.com It's easy for students to get caught in the credit card trap. Understanding credit will help you become a good credit consumer and set the stage for your future credit health.
Click here to read the full article. |
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| You Don't Have To Be Rich To Accumulate Wealth | ||||||
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Money Management
International,
www.moneymanagement.org Click here to read the full article. |
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| Do You Live Paycheck -To-Paycheck, Too? | ||||||
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Brent Rassmussen, Career Builder, www.careerbuilder.com Counting down the minutes to payday? You're not alone. Four-in-ten workers (41 percent) say they often or always live paycheck to paycheck, according to CareerBuilder.com's latest survey.
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here to read the full article. |
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