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BAP hosted 18 professional meetings, inviting local accounting firms or organizations to present virtually on topics that help the members grow and develop professionally and prepare for their careers after college. A select group of 10 members also attended the BAP Mid-year virtual meeting and heard presentations on a range of topics from setting career […]

Jimmy ten Pas graduated from Clemson University in 2002 and has a master’s degree of professional accountancy from Clemson University as well.  Based in Greenville, SC, Jimmy is a Certified Public Accountant and was promoted to tax partner with Dixon Hughes Goodman in 2018.  He provides services to private equity funds, manufacturing and distribution companies, […]

  Clemson’s Accounting Advisory Board plays an essential role in the School of Accountancy, helping us better prepare our accounting majors for the profession they will enter upon graduation.  Our members provide practical insights on a range of issues, including how to best incorporate curriculum changes that will ensure students acquire the skills needed in […]

Our highly productive research faculty published nineteen academic, peer-reviewed articles during the 2019-2020 academic year.  The School of Accountancy is ranked #1 in research worldwide for public universities without a PhD program. Burney, L. and F. Kennedy. 2020. The purpose of a corporation and lean principles: Do the two overlap? Cost Management, forthcoming. Chamberlain, D., […]

Sally Widener published her paper “The Role of Diagnostic and Interactive Control Uses in Innovation” in Accounting Organizations and Society, a leading accounting research journal. Diagnostic control use is when control information is used to track and monitor performance while interactive control use is information that is shared vertically through the organization to align behaviors […]

  For the last three years, teams of highly motivated and talented accounting majors have participated in Deloitte’s Audit Innovation Campus Challenge.  This year’s team included Tyler Boyd, Anna Heintz, Alex Kilinski, Erin Lavelle, and Charlotte Ruhlin, with Terry Knause, a retired Deloitte partner, as faculty advisor. Clemson’s team was pitted against seven other colleges […]

Maggie King came from a family of educators but her decision to pursue an accounting degree occurred early in her college career; she was hooked after her first accounting class and “never looked back.” After graduating with her undergraduate degree from Appalachian State, Maggie began researching graduate programs. She wanted to achieve the requirements necessary […]

Clemson’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), an accounting and finance honor society, has had a busy year! Due to their active involvement in serving the community, as well as activities focused on professional development, Clemson’s Zeta Rho chapter was able to achieve Superior status at the national level. This achievement is accompanied by a […]

To protect the safety and health of students and faculty, Clemson University moved all classes online following Spring Break through the end of the 2019 – 2020 academic year.  Our School of Accountancy faculty rose to the challenge, quickly learning how to use new tools to deliver a high-quality Clemson experience online.  Many of our […]

The Clemson School of Accountancy is excited to welcome Marc Cussatt, Ph.D., to the faculty as a new assistant professor. Dr. Cussatt started his academic career at Washington State University in 2014 after getting his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before entering academia, Dr. Cussatt worked for PwC based out of the […]