It has been an eventful year for the Department of Accounting & Taxation. Our faculty and students continue to make significant contributions to LeBow College of Business. We are able to attract high quality students to both undergraduate and graduate accounting programs, supporting them with high-energy, tenure track faculty, motivated clinical and adjunct faculty, and our excellent committed departmental manager. Everyone is committed to improvements in accounting education for our students.
The Accounting Department is pleased to welcome four new faculty members and a new staff member to our department and congratulate four professors on their promotions.
PhD candidate Tom Zylkin recently accepted a visiting assistant researcher position in the fall at Yale University. Zylkin will conduct research under the supervision of Professor Costas Arkolakis.
On December 13, 2013, the Accounting Department and Beta Alpha Psi will host a two-hour breakfast CPE for our alumni and friends. Join us for coffee, catch-up with fellow alumni, meet our faculty and mingle with our Beta Alpha Psi students. The event will be held in the new Gerri C. LeBow Business Building. Join us and check out the new space!
Throughout the year, the Accounting Department welcomes scholars from around the country to present relevant accounting research and topics to our faculty and students.
One of the most challenging events for a board is the departure of a company’s CEO. A study by Booz & Company found that 14.2 percent of CEOs at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies were replaced in 2011. This rate of turnover implies that a typical CEO is on the job for about seven years.
Not long after being sworn in as the new Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White presided over her first open SEC meeting on April 10, 2013. At that meeting, the SEC adopted rules requiring certain businesses regulated by the SEC to adopt and implement programs to detect and respond to indicators of possible identity theft.
Not long after being sworn in as the new Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White presided over her first open SEC meeting on April 10, 2013. At that meeting, the SEC adopted rules requiring certain businesses regulated by the SEC to adopt and implement programs to detect and respond to indicators of possible identity theft.
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) recently teamed up with Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business to develop a Business Analytics Certificate program as a new way to further develop its informatics staff and prepare them for the many opportunities to improve health care coming with health care reform. The first class of IBC associates completed the program in May and a new class of students will begin this fall.
The professional chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) of Philadelphia hosted a scholarship awards banquet on April 19, 2013 to recognize three Drexel University accounting students who were awarded scholarships.
For the graduating seniors who will walk down the aisle this Saturday, Commencement is the culmination and celebration of four to five years of hard work and dedication and the beginning of the next chapter of their lives. They’ve worked hard and earned the accolades they will receive from friends and family. To mark the occasion, the Class of 2013 will present the first ever class gift to the College as a big thank you and a remembrance of this year’s graduating class.
There will be no more head scratching or wondering if LeBow’s concentrations are the same as majors found in other institutions. Effective immediately, LeBow College of Business has transitioned from using the term "concentrations” to “majors.”
