School of Accounting

The School of Accounting Collaborative for Excellence (ACE) is designed to help all Spears students in their accounting courses succeed by providing them with peer tutoring, mentoring, and career advice.

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Student organizations

The School of Accounting Sponsors two student organizations. These organizations provide students with opportunities to network with the business community, develop professional leadership skills, and engage with other students

Beta Alpha Psi

Student Center for Public Trust

Professional certifications

Accounting certifications enhance your career opportunities, grow your skill sets, and increase your earning potentials. Students in our program are encouraged to get certified.

In recent years, the School of Accounting annually awards nearly $500,000 in scholarships to over 100 accounting students. We are grateful to our many donors who make this commitment possible.

Accounting scholarships

Research

Recent faculty publications have covered many relevant topics including whether severance pay affects the timeliness of bad news disclosures by companies, auditor responses to FCPA risk, the Asian financial crisis, the accuracy of going concern opinions, experiential education in accounting, and internal auditors’ internal control evaluations.

Faculty research

Outreach

The School of Accounting faculty serves businesses, governments and non-profit organizations through education and outreach, including the Annual Oil and Gas Accounting Conference, the Accounting and Financial Reporting Conference and the Ph.D. Alumni Research Conference (PARC).

Conferences and workshops

Engage and connect

Being a Cowboy lasts a lifetime. With the support of our engaged alumni, the accounting program continues to prepare accounting students to make a difference in the world.

Wilton T. Anderson Hall of Fame Advisory board

Best of the best

The School of Accounting is honored to be an accredited school through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) and the Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA).

Sarah Johnson receives Career Champion Award

January 26, 2021

Oklahoma State University Career Services recently awarded Spears Business professor Sarah Johnson with the Career Champion Award for 2020. Johnson is the assistant department head and an instructor of professional practice in the School of Accounting.

Alum Carlos Johnson receives award for contributions to accounting profession

November 5, 2020

OSU alumnus Carlos Johnson was presented the William H. Van Rensselaer Public Service Award for his leadership and efforts to advance the accounting profession.

Spears alumni to address accounting ethics class

October 30, 2020

Oklahoma State University School of Accounting graduate Katie McKnight will talk to an OSU accounting class Monday, Nov. 16, at 4 p.m. as part of the business ethics speaker series, “Three Stories and Some Q&A” sponsored by the Center for Legal Studies and Business Ethics in the Spears School of Business and the OSU Student Center for the Public Trust.

Spears School’s Sarah Johnson honored with 2021 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award Jun 1

OSU accounting student Francesca Spillman receives $10,000 PCAOB scholarship May 24

Programs

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