School of Accountancy

Student Spotlight: Madison Monroe

Madison Monroe grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and was attracted to Clemson by its “welcoming and familial atmosphere.” Although she started out as a math major, Monroe was curious about accounting and enrolled in an accounting class. She immediately “felt that accounting was the thing [her] brain was designed to do” and has since […]

Student Spotlight: Tia Streiffert

Tia Streiffert grew up in Wasilla, Alaska and joined the Air Force where she worked as a news/radio broadcaster. After completing her enlistment, Streiffert attended Horry-Georgetown Technical College where she immediately fell in love with accounting. She subsequently transferred to Clemson as an accounting major, in part, because her future spouse was a Clemson alumnus, […]

Students Study Abroad in Rome

Senior lecturer Scott Toussaint and assistant clinical professor John Ledbetter guided 31 Clemson students on this summer’s study abroad to Rome. Three courses were offered including legal environment of business, financial accounting concepts and international business law. Students completed the initial part of the courses online and finished the courses at the Pantheon Institute in […]

Remembering Brian Carver

Family, friends, and the Clemson University community mourned the loss of Brian Carver on September 19, 2022. It is impossible to truly honor a life well lived in a single article, but it is possible to highlight a few of the things that so many people loved about our dear friend Brian Carver. In attempting […]

Clemson Team Competes in Deloitte’s “Audit Innovation” Challenge

  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 […]

Accounting Classes Go Virtual!

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 […]

A hike through history on the Camino de Santiago

Sally Widener and Frances Kennedy were anything but sedentary on their summer vacation. Widener, Trevillian Distinguished Professor and director of the School of Accountancy and Kennedy, professor and special assistant to the provost for academic quality improvement, walked 250 miles (400 kilometers) of the historic Camino Frances route of the Camino de Santiago, over 19 […]