University of Notre Dame - Intro

Mendoza College of Business Deans Report 2009-11

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Average GPA 3.62 Notre Dame undergraduates 40% Ranked #4 by Public Accounting Report —2010 Program attracting exceptional students Providing tax help to internationals The Tax Assistance Program staffed by students from the M.S. in Accountancy program is providing tax assistance to international employees and students at Notre Dame. Just as Notre Dame undergraduates aid local people in preparing domestic tax returns, students in the MSA program concentrate on helping nonresidents negotiate the often complicated matter of filing returns. Clients include visiting faculty and scholars, post-doctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as staff members who file nonresident tax returns. A subset of these clients requires further assistance due to their prior residency in countries with which the United States has treaties. The international program has grown from 498 clients in 2001 to 817 served in 2011. MSA ranked among the best The Master of Science in Accountancy program moved up two positions to No. 4 while the undergraduate program maintained its No. 4 ranking in the most recent survey of the nation's top 25 accountancy programs by the newsletter . The newsletter annually surveys accountancy professors to measure their perceptions of the programs that most consistently produce students capable of attaining partner status. The 81 students enrolled in the class of 2012 have an average grade-point average of 3.64 and an average GMAT score of 654. "Those are probably close to the top, if not the top, in the country," says Michael H. Morris, professor and program director. The MSA program also continues to diversify away from its origins as a program that was designed to provide Notre Dame accountancy graduates the extra credit hours necessary to take the CPA exam. The most recent classes have consisted of only about 50 percent Notre Dame accountancy alums. The Class of 2012 includes students from Cornell, Pepperdine, Syracuse, Colorado, Tennessee and Xavier. Putting numbers to sustainability Accountancy Professor Bill Nichols is helping educate students, academia and the business world about the issues involved in trying to measure sustainability. In his new course, "Sustainability Accounting and Reporting," Nichols describes the difficulties of evaluating and reporting sustainability efforts, especially in regard to the environment. The topic is so new, there are no textbooks. Nichols focuses on the objectives of the Global Reporting Initiative, which established performance indicators for sustainability reporting, to guide the course of study. The goal of the course is to educate accountancy stu- dents about the appropriate way to present to decision makers the type of data needed to make a judgment about a business's degree of environmental, economic and social sustainability. 19 Public A ccounting R eport

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