EAST LANSING, Mich. – Six accounting students from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University brought home top honors from the 14th annual Deloitte National Student Case Study Seminar.
The Deloitte Foundation, the not-for-profit arm of Deloitte LLP, presented each MSU team member with a $2,000 scholarship to use toward completing their accounting degree, and the school received a $10,000 award to support its accounting program.
Members of the winning team are:
• Bardeleon Jaddou, a senior accounting major from Bloomfield Hills
• Woon Huay Gwendolyn Lee, a senior accounting major from Singapore
• Michael Mehl, a senior accounting major from Novi
• Nicholas Schall, a junior accounting major from Williamston
• Joseph Thomas, a master’s student from Livonia
• Andrea Silva, a senior accounting major from Lansing, captain of the team
“Participation in the Deloitte seminar provided us with the opportunity to work with professionals who invested a great deal of time in advising us,” Silva said. “The process of researching and presenting a case study with the help of professors and practitioners truly enables students to understand the more complex issues within auditing and to hone the skills that are necessary to succeed in public accounting.”
Faculty advisers, and managers from Deloitte & Touche LLP, worked with the student teams to provide solutions to complex case studies involving real-world financial accounting issues. Each student team presented its case solution to a panel of active and retired Deloitte partners, who assumed the roles of a client company’s senior management or audit committee members. The panel selected the student teams that best identified relevant accounting issues and most effectively present their case.
Second place was awarded to students from the University of Southern California. Other schools participating were Florida A&M University, the University of Houston, the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The seminar was held in April in Scottsdale, Ariz.
For more information about the winning team from the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at MSU, visit http://www.bus.msu.edu/acc/
The Deloitte Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that supports teaching, research, and curriculum innovation in accounting, business and related fields within the U.S. The foundation, founded in 1928, supports an array of national programs relevant to a variety of professional services, and which benefit middle/high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and faculty.
For more information visit www.deloitte.com/us/df
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