Three accounting majors won the AIS Educator Association’s 2018 Student Project Competition.
Rebecca Herring ’18, J. Ames Murray ’18 and Anderson O’Brien ’18 won first place in the AIS Educator Association’s (AISEA) 2018 Student Project Competition.
Funded by AISEA founders Jack and Maye Stewart, the competition recognizes outstanding work completed by students on accounting information systems class projects and cases.
As part of the Accounting Information Systems course taught by Associate Professor of Accounting Catherine Chiang, the group of students designed an accounting information system for a small business. The students were tasked to apply what they learned in other business core courses, such as marketing and finance, to justify the creation of their business and to explore existing accounting technological tools for small businesses.
“The project involved creating a business from scratch and mapping out accounting policies, an internal control framework, and information security procedures for the company,” O’Brien said.
“Our final project allowed us to accumulate all that we had learned throughout the semester and include our own personal creativity and entrepreneurial mindset in creating our own business plan for our company,” Herring added.
Chiang will present the course project at the AIS Educator conference in June.