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Retirement Accounting Professor Bill Taylor Retires If you were ever in Bill Taylor’s accounting or auditing class, you probably know what it’s like to be put on the spot. It might have been momentarily uncomfortable. But, in the end, you would probably say that you were challenged. “Bill Taylor has high expectations of his students,” said Dean V. Kanti Prasad. “And those expectations have earned him the respect of thousands of UWM alumni and Wisconsin CPAs.” Dr. Taylor — or simply Taylor, as he prefers — retired in December after 32 years of service to the school. 20 OUTLOOK Bill Taylor Michael Irwin (BBA-Accounting ‘92), Chief Operating Offi cer of Webroot Software Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, describes the fi rst few weeks of Taylor’s courses as “shock and awe” for students. “But then it evolved into a highly engaged dialogue between a professor and his students, from which we all walked away better,” Irwin said. “When you have a professor like Bill Taylor, he expects you to go into a question deeply, to explain yourself, to defend yourself, just as you would with a client or in presenting expert witness testimony,” said Eve Romersi (MS-Tax ’98), a Partner with Scribner Cohen & Co. “That preparation is crucial. If you can’t do that, you won’t be successful in accounting.” The recipient of the Business Advisory Council Teaching Award and the university-wide AMOCO Outstanding Professor Award, Bill Taylor is the coauthor (currently with Professors Paul Fischer and Rita Cheng) of all nine editions of Advanced Accounting, the leading advanced text in accounting since it was fi rst published in 1978. He was also the president of the CPA Review of Wisconsin, which prepared thousands of students for the CPA exam. Past President of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs, Taylor has served the community as chairman of the board or director of numerous nonprofi t organizations, including The Riveredge Nature Center, The Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, and The Cedarburg Landmark Preservation Society. “Every semester, I’ve met 75 to 100 people, many of whom I continue to hear from or have developed relationships with,” Taylor told an alumni gathering in November. “It’s been a tremendous amount of fun and I’ll miss it.” We’ll miss you, too, Taylor!
CPA-in-Residence Program CPA-in-Residence Program Established Executive to Serve as Career Advisor for Accounting Profession College students preparing for a professional career in accounting face a host of important decisions that will have a signifi cant impact on their future careers. These critical decisions are driven by a number of factors, including the 150 credit requirement to sit for the CPA exam, the growing importance of internships, and increased professional opportunities for accounting graduates. In response to these developments, the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee has established a new program that helps accounting students connect current decisions to their future careers. The Lubar School’s CPA-in-Residence Program pairs a seasoned accounting executive with undergraduate and graduate accounting students at critical junctures in their accounting studies. “We want our students to maximize their potential in the accounting fi eld,” said Professor Paul Fischer, chairman of the accounting area, “This program is key to ensuring that they become highly qualifi ed CPAs who can contribute to Wisconsin business.” By providing one-on-one career mentoring at key decision points, Fischer said, the CPA-in-Residence Program strives to achieve a unique balance between a major university’s academic power and individual student professional planning. The primary mission of the program is to guide qualifi ed undergraduate accounting students into the MS in Professional Accounting Program, and then through to the timely completion of the CPA exam. Based on each students’ goals, preferences, and strengths, the CPA-in-Residence is able to share individualized information about the various career options in accounting, as well as where their choices might lead them 10 or 15 years after graduating. The program also sponsors workshops for students on a variety of topics related to the accounting profession. Ellis Jordan, a retired partner at Deloitte with over 32 years of experience in professional accounting — and 1970 graduate of UWM’s accounting program — is serving as the Lubar School’s fi rst CPA-in-Residence. “The process to become a CPA has become more complicated and time-consuming,” said Ellis. “I’m delighted to provide a context for our next generation of accounting professionals that will help steer them in their career decisions and their progression to becoming a CPA.” CPA-in-Residence Ellis Jordan SPRING 2007 21
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