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Ghosh, Viswanathan, Winter: Toyota Should be Upfront with Customers Vice President Avijit Ghosh, Professor Madhu Viswanathan, and Gretchen Winter differ somewhat in their assessments of how well Toyota is handling its problems. (2/2010)
Paper Acceptance Pete Lisowsky's paper entitled “Seeking Shelter: Empirically Modeling Tax Shelters Using Financial Statement Information” has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. The anticipated publication issue is September 2010. (2/2010)
Undeniable Excellence: ILLINOIS Wins National xTreme Accounting Competition Representing ILLINOIS at the national level, Jingjing Li, David Robb, Ben Sanchez, Grant Stoffle and Peter Van Eck win the PwC xTreme Accounting competition for the second consecutive year. (1/2010)
"We won again. Excitement reigns." Dean Hedeman, who is present at the national xTreme Accounting competition in New York, sent the above text message at 2:59 p.m., Friday, January 22nd. (1/2010)
Accounting Author-Superstars Preliminary research looking at 50 years of published work in the top 5 accounting journals shows the Department of Accountancy has had a substantial impact on the accounting literature. (1/2010)
AICPA Awards Accountemps Scholarship to Business Student Adam Keene ('10) is one of five recipients of the AICPA/Accountemps Student Scholarship Award for 2009-2010. The $2,500 award is granted to accounting, finance, or infomration systems majors with a minimum 3.0 g.p.a. and who demonstrate leadership, academic excellence and future career interests in accouting and business. (1/2010)
Teamwork pays off for 1st place team A team of five ILLINOIS students took first place in the xACT case competition hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers on campus. The team now moves to the national case competition in New York this January. (12/2009)

Ghosh, Viswanathan, Winter: Toyota Should be Upfront with Customers
Vice President Avijit Ghosh, Professor Madhu Viswanathan, and Gretchen Winter differ somewhat in their assessments of how well Toyota is handling its problems. (2/2010)

Paper Acceptance
Pete Lisowsky's paper entitled “Seeking Shelter: Empirically Modeling Tax Shelters Using Financial Statement Information” has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. The anticipated publication issue is September 2010. (2/2010)

Undeniable Excellence: ILLINOIS Wins National xTreme Accounting Competition
Representing ILLINOIS at the national level, Jingjing Li, David Robb, Ben Sanchez, Grant Stoffle and Peter Van Eck win the PwC xTreme Accounting competition for the second consecutive year. (1/2010)

"We won again. Excitement reigns."
Dean Hedeman, who is present at the national xTreme Accounting competition in New York, sent the above text message at 2:59 p.m., Friday, January 22nd. (1/2010)

Accounting Author-Superstars
Preliminary research looking at 50 years of published work in the top 5 accounting journals shows the Department of Accountancy has had a substantial impact on the accounting literature. (1/2010)

AICPA Awards Accountemps Scholarship to Business Student
Adam Keene ('10) is one of five recipients of the AICPA/Accountemps Student Scholarship Award for 2009-2010. The $2,500 award is granted to accounting, finance, or infomration systems majors with a minimum 3.0 g.p.a. and who demonstrate leadership, academic excellence and future career interests in accouting and business. (1/2010)

Teamwork pays off for 1st place team
A team of five ILLINOIS students took first place in the xACT case competition hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers on campus. The team now moves to the national case competition in New York this January. (12/2009)

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