{"id":578,"date":"2011-10-25T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T01:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=578"},"modified":"2016-03-13T21:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:23:56","slug":"accounting-alumni-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/10\/25\/accounting-alumni-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Accounting alumni blaze their trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_579\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/accounting201110.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-579\" title=\"Accounting Alumni Panel\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/accounting201110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cody Giese, &#8217;08, Andrew Andrich, &#8217;11, Roy Alexander, &#8217;09, and Lisa Marx, &#8217;09.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four recent accounting alumni were welcomed back to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 25 for a panel discussion as a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/busecon\/Pages\/Resources\/SBEevents.aspx\">UWSP School of Business events program<\/a>. The alumni addressed current SBE students about their careers and the paths that got them to this point.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>Cody Giese, &#8217;08<\/strong>, an accountant at Sentry Insurance, his career stemmed from receiving a Sentry Insurance scholarship, followed by an internship which led to his full-time position. <strong>Andrew Andrich, &#8217;11<\/strong>, impressed his current employer, ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, Inc., by completing part of the\u00a0certified management accountant (CMA) exam. He is now a financial analyst there.<\/p>\n<p>A recommendation from a professor led <strong>Roy Alexander, &#8217;09<\/strong>, to write a letter to Clifton Gunderson, accept an internship, and come away with a tax position. First day on the job, Alexander was asked to switch to an assurance associate and he has never looked back. <strong>Lisa Marz, &#8217;09<\/strong>, emphasized applying early and often to the current students. She landed her job as an accountant with Ministry Health Care in April 2009, a month before she graduated.<\/p>\n<p>Every Pointer has their own story and blazes their own trail. What&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Four recent accounting alumni were welcomed back to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 25 for a panel discussion as a part of the UWSP School of Business events program. The alumni addressed current SBE students about their careers and the paths that got them to this point. For Cody Giese, &#8217;08, an accountant at Sentry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,450],"tags":[57,72,85,96,222,280,329,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}