Accountancy faculty members Jon Pyzoha, Matt Wieland, and Brian Ballou were busy in the month of June as they worked on restructuring the financial statement audit (ACC 453/553) and graduate assurance (ACC 653) courses to reflect the industry’s shift to a digital, platform-based audit approach and expansion of the service from financial reporting to financial/ESG reporting and, likely, to integrated reporting (which includes additional, nonfinancial information).
Professors Pyzoha and Wieland attended a symposium in Chicago organized by the EY Academic Resource Center (EYARC) to learn about cutting-edge, innovative cases and curriculum materials from EY as well as from professors from across the country. In addition to audit and assurance, the symposium also included resources for the financial accounting and reporting (ACC 321 and 448/548) courses taught by Professor Wieland.
In addition, Professors Pyzoha and Ballou spent a day at the EY Chicago office to learn from a number of EY professionals in financial and ESG assurance and advisory, including Marty Schneider ’00 (assurance partner) and David Shade ’00 (advisory partner), who are the company’s Miami relationship partners, as well as Anne Munaretto (ESG advisory/assurance partner), Ashley Freiberg (assurance senior manager), Eileen Walsh (assurance senior manager), Cara Samz (ESG senior manager), Gloria Liu (ESG staff), Katherine McGinn (ESG staff), and Blake Smith (assurance staff).
