Accounting Update: Summer 2022

Volume 16, Issue 1

A Message from the Chair
6/21/22
Celebrating our accomplishments—and thanking those who helped make those successes possible.
Paying it forward
6/17/22
Accounting students connect with industry mentors for career insights.

Alumni and Student Success

Olfano recognized as Accountant of the Year
6/17/22
Accounting and Law Department also honors exceptional students at annual awards banquet.
Accounting Advisory Council adds to its distinguished ranks
2/15/23
Stephen Turner, BS ’08, was recently named chair of the School of Management's Accounting Advisory Council, and four new members joined the council.
UB School of Management undergrads rise to the Challenge
6/17/22
The ‘Pencil Pushers’ win the school’s annual PwC Challenge.

Faculty and Department News

Changing lives, leading by example
6/24/22
Alumni reflect on the vast impact made by three retiring accounting professors: Alex Ampadu, Muriel Anderson and Kathy Nesper.
Going the extra mile
8/4/22
Alumni from KPMG and the Accounting Advisory Council fund scholarships for UB accounting students.
The inside scoop on sustainability standards
6/17/22
Jeffrey Hales, chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, delivered a free lecture to the School of Management community.

Newsletter Team

Feng Gu
Department Chair

Ian Tarrant
Editor

Matthew Biddle
Contributing Editor

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Research Spotlight

Investors lose out when investing in ‘blank-check’ SPACs
6/17/22
A new study—led by Michael Dambra, associate professor of accounting and law—sheds light on a hot Wall Street trend.

Kudos!

Congratulations to Brian McCallion, BS ’01, CPA, CFA, who was inducted into the Dr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Gicewicz Family UB Athletics Hall of Fame earlier this year. McCallion, who played soccer at UB, serves as vice president and managing director of the Controllers Division at Goldman Sachs in Salt Lake City.