BROOKFIELD - Joan Miller, accounting teacher at Black Hawk Community Schools in South Wayne, has been awarded a 2008 Accounting Careers Awareness Grant in the amount of $1,404 from the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation, Inc.
Accounting teachers who participated in the fall 2007 WICPA High School Educators Symposium were offered the opportunity to write proposals about why they should receive funding. Miller was one of twenty-one teachers to receive a grant.
Miller plans to use the grant money to take her students to accounting firm Reffue, Pas, Jacobson & Koster LLP in Monroe where they will tour and visit with CPAs to learn about the accounting career. She will also use the funds to purchase automated accounting software for her class, giving her students a real world experience in accounting.
The grant allows schools to partner with CPAs to give students the opportunity to see what it is like to be a CPA. "The WICPA Educational Foundation is pleased with Miller's plan to bring accounting to the lives of her students," said Joan Phillips, president of the Educational Foundation.
Accounting teachers who participated in the fall 2007 WICPA High School Educators Symposium were offered the opportunity to write proposals about why they should receive funding. Miller was one of twenty-one teachers to receive a grant.
Miller plans to use the grant money to take her students to accounting firm Reffue, Pas, Jacobson & Koster LLP in Monroe where they will tour and visit with CPAs to learn about the accounting career. She will also use the funds to purchase automated accounting software for her class, giving her students a real world experience in accounting.
The grant allows schools to partner with CPAs to give students the opportunity to see what it is like to be a CPA. "The WICPA Educational Foundation is pleased with Miller's plan to bring accounting to the lives of her students," said Joan Phillips, president of the Educational Foundation.
