STUDENT NEWS
FINANCIAL REPORTING ROUNDTABLE
The School of Accountancy proudly continued its sponsorship of the Financial Reporting Roundtable (FRR), a premier forum for financial reporting leaders from Georgia’s 20 largest publicly traded companies. In 2025, SOA hosted one of the seven meetings and facilitated the remaining six, each offering a confidential space for candid dialogue, experience-sharing, and insights on emerging accounting issues. A hallmark of the FRR is its connection to standard-setting bodies. In August 2025, the group welcomed Kyle Moffatt, former Chief Accountant of Corporate Finance of the SEC, for an in-person session hosted at KSU. This was an event that underscored the Roundtable’s influence and relevance. SOA ACCOUNTING CAREER FAIRS Held at the start of the fall 2025 semester, the School of Accountancy Fall Career Fair provided over 300 undergraduate and graduate students access to 44 SOA Partners. The spring semester career fair – Meet the Firms – is open to all Coles students. 45 employers connected with over 250 students at the Spring 2026 event. Employer Partners use these events to build brand recognition and to act as a recruitment driver for summer leadership programs, internships, and full-time employment.
ACCOUNTING ACHIEVERS’ BANQUET
WHAT IS ACCOUNTING PANEL With such success of this panel in the 2024-2025 academic year, the SOA continued the What is Accounting? Panel . The panel comprised of high-level professionals in the accounting profession to highlight the many opportunities accounting can offer to graduates. Students from our first two Principles courses, students interested in learning more about accounting, and others interested in the subject itself, joined to hear the professionals’ stories. We now plan to add this event as a staple of accounting industry promotion. Over 250 students attended one of the panels this year.
CURRICULUM UPDATES This year, undergraduate and graduate curricula were strengthened through expanded use of applied learning technologies. These included revised StudentsExcel modules aligned with a new textbook, embedded Microsoft Excel certification, and analytics assignments. At the graduate level, the Master of Accounting (MAcc) program continued innovating in the core required Data Analytics course, taught by Dr. Sunay Mutlu. All 35 MAcc students completed a four-exam series and earned their Alteryx certification through this course. In addition, students in the Audit/Advisory track now have the potential to graduate with three professional certifications (CPA, CIA, and Alteryx) along with the Internal Audit Academic Alliance certificate from the Institute of Internal Auditors.
This event exposes top-performing undecided KSU undergraduates to the accounting profession. Students who performed well in the first two Accounting Principles courses are invited. Faculty also nominated the top ten students from their classes to attend. In 2025, 42 students from across 13 majors attended the Accounting Achievers’ Banquet and learned more about career opportunities and majoring in accounting. After attending this event 43% of the attendees decided to switch their major to accounting. Of our 2026 MAcc graduates, six attended this event during their early undergraduate program.
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