History of Accounting
This U.S. law, passed in 2002 after major corporate scandals, strengthened audit requirements and corporate accountability.
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
This tool in Excel combines multiple visual elements like pivot charts, slicers, and KPIs to present data trends in an interactive format.
What is a Dashboard?
This JSU graduate left college football behind to pursue country music, later becoming known for storytelling songs rooted in rural Alabama life.
Who is Riley Green?
This real-life city serves as the setting for the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company branch featured in The Office (U.S.).
What is Scranton, Pennsylvania?
This JSU faculty member was instrumental in establishing the Nu Phi Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi in 2016.
Who is Dr. Collum?
This company’s accounting fraud led to one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history and was a major catalyst for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
What is Enron?
This Excel tool allows users to quickly analyze and reorganize large amounts of data by dragging fields into different areas to create dynamic summaries
What is a Pivot Table?
This JSU graduate helped form one of the most successful country bands of all time and became the frontman of a group that defined 1980s country music.
Who is Randy Owen?
This is the official job title held by Michael Scott at Dunder Mifflin’s branch in The Office (U.S.).
What is Regional Manager?
In 2016, this chapter of Beta Alpha Psi was installed as an official chapter of the international honor organization at Jacksonville State University.
What is the Nu Phi Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi?
This accounting firm was once one of the “Big Five” but collapsed after its involvement in auditing the Enron scandal.
What is Arthur Andersen?
This analysis method estimates how changes in explanatory variables impact a response variable and is commonly used for forecasting and trend analysis.
What is a Regression?
This JSU graduate built one of the most successful small-college baseball programs in the country, coaching Jacksonville State to multiple national titles and later having the stadium field named in his honor.
Who is Rudy Abbott?
This Dunder Mifflin position is held by Jim Halpert, who works under Michael Scott in the branch.
What is Sales Representative?
This individual currently serves as the International President of Beta Alpha Psi, leading the organization’s Board of Directors and overseeing all chapters worldwide.
Who is Dr. Raymond Elson?
This telecommunications company falsely inflated earnings by billions through improper accounting of line costs and capital expenditures.
What is WorldCom?
This statistical test is used to determine whether there is a significant association between two categorical variables.
What is a Chi-Square test?
This Jacksonville State alumnus is a professional golfer from England who won one of golf’s most prestigious major championships in 2016 after a dramatic final round.
Who is Danny Willett?
This television writer, known for work on Saturday Night Live and King of the Hill, adapted the British series The Office into its U.S. version for NBC.
Who is Greg Daniels?
This Midwestern university, known for its strong business and accounting programs, is where Beta Alpha Psi was first established in 1919?
What is the University of Illinois?
This Alabama-based healthcare company was involved in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history after falsely inflating earnings by billions through fake accounting entries.
What is HealthSouth?
This visualization tool applies conditional formatting or color scaling to data tables to help analysts quickly identify high and low values across large datasets.
What is a Heat Map?
This radio personality duo built a large Southern following with a long-running syndicated morning show blending humor, sports talk, and cultural commentary, co-hosted by two JSU graduates.
Who is Rick & Bubba?
This American rock musician, formerly of the bands Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, created the memorable opening theme for The Office (U.S.)
Who is Jay Ferguson?
This accreditation standard, held by the JSU College of Business, is considered the “gold standard” for business schools and is required for Beta Alpha Psi chapters to exist at many universities.
What is AACSB Accreditation?