Should there be a cap on oil spill payouts?
A group of accountancy professors, including U of I Professor Emeritus Andrew Bailey, is backing BP’s fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts. more  (5/2013)

University of Illinois Selects Yaeger CPA Review as Sole Provider of CPA Study
Starting in Fall 2013, students at University of Illinois will be able to enroll in a for-credit online course as they prepare to take the CPA exam  (5/2013)

Innocence lost: Class of 2013 comes of age in a weak economy
Accounting and Business Administration graduate Steve Heiss '13 enters the shaky job market with solid footing.  (5/2013)

Technology Entrepreneur Center's Cozad New Venture Competition
Jenni Salisbury, MAS student, was a member of the third place team at the Technology Entrepreneur Center's Cozad New Venture Competition. Her team, CELLular Diagnostics, received $5,000 for their venture to develop a smartphone biosensor for on-site diagnosis of disease and malnutrition. More ...  (5/2013)

2012 Illinois CPA Society Excel Award Winners
Katherine Davidson (BS 2012), Zhao Wang (MSA 2012) and Ruixue Yao (MSA 2012) were recipients of the Illinois CPA Society Excel Award. The Excel Award is granted to Illinois CPAs who achieved a total average score of 90 or more and completed all four parts of the exam within two consecutive testing windows and were in the top five percent of the scores of those who completed all the requirements in 2012 in Illinois.  (5/2013)