Article Archive for January 2010
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, January 25–29, 2010
Economic Update
This week was ripe with political and economic events. The president delivered the State of The Union address to congress, GDP expanded by 5.7%, Ben Bernanke was reappointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve, …
Kaufman, Rossin & Co. hosts Alumni Day.
Inasmuch as about one-third of the employees at Kaufman, Rossin & Co.—one of Florida’s largest independent accounting firms—graduated from Florida International University (FIU), it’s no surprise that a gathering sponsored by the FIU Alumni Association …
Faculty Notes
School of Accounting
Stephen Lin, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research professor; and assistant professors Abijit Barua and John (Changjiang) Wang, won a highly competitive “IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) Ready” award from the PricewaterhouseCoopers …
Alumni Notes
Jocelyn R. Flynt (BACC ’82) was promoted to principal at Coral Gables-based accounting firm Berenfeld Spritzer Shechter & Sheer.
Cherry, Bekaert & Holland has hired Consuelo I. Salcedo (BACC ’96) as a manager in the tax …
MBA from Italy savors work and educational experiences in Miami.
As the technical leader of group of engineers in the R&D department of a telecommunications company in Italy, Piero Vitale (MIB ’09) didn’t expect to find himself in Miami promoting Miami-Dade County as a place …
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, January 18–22, 2010
Currencies – EUR/USD
This week the global currency market had heavy activity, specifically with the Euro and USD. The overall trade was Dollar strength and Euro weakness, which could be observed in the EUR/USD pair. Since …
Entertainment is serious business for alumnus.
Herb Payan (PMBA ’09), vice president, IS&T, Sony Music Entertainment, reflects on the global complexities in the music industry caused by the digital revolution: from understanding intellectual property rights, to integrating technology into business objectives, …
Students learn selling skills . . . by selling.
“Close to 70% of students with marketing degrees end up in sales.”—College recruiters
“I don’t consider myself a selling-type person.”—Diane Edwards, marketing major, College of Business Administration, Florida International University (FIU)
Given that such a high percentage …
PMBA-Panama group reaches out to needy children for first, but not last, time.
Students in the first offering of Florida International University’s (FIU) Professional MBA-Panama (PMBA-Panama) periodically discussed a project to demonstrate their sense of social responsibility. However, bringing that idea to fruition always seemed to run into …
BizBits
On November 17, 2009, Antoinette Lynch, assistant professor, School of Accounting, and her family volunteered for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami. The pinnacle of her experience came when she realized that she was helping …
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, January 11–15, 2010
Google to Potentially Exit Chinese Markets
Google users in China gathered outside the Google Beijing office to place flowers and candles after the company stated it may leave the world’s biggest Internet market.
In what Google calls …
Think outside the spreadsheet: Accounting majors investigate career options.
Many accounting students have their sights set on positions with big accounting firms. That’s certainly an optimal career path. But here’s another: becoming an accountant with a badge, solving financial crimes as a federal …
Multi-tasking skills honed at FIU prove essential for business success.
For Bruce Welch (IMBA-MSF ’07, BBA ’05), multi-tasking is a way of life. Currently a financial analyst at Cargill Latin America—whose parent company has sales exceeding $120 billion—he faces tasks that span the daily calculation …
Top-notch Hispanic students get professional development boost at high-powered institute.
In four intense days, thanks to the Karen Marquez Institute (formerly the Hispanic College Fund), Daniel Zamora, an accounting major in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) and 34 other college …
