Meeting & Agendas

The minutes from May 4, 2018 were reviewed. Chase Insogna moved that they be approved as is. Chris Noak seconded the motion. The minutes were approved. Everyone introduced themselves and introduced the new full time faculty members to the advisory committee.

• Larry Stephens and Tracie Miller reported on the events that were planned for the Accounting Student Association at ACC. They had a successful September introductory meeting and will be holding more events in the near future. The Meet the Firms event will be held on October 20, 2018 at the Highland Campus with several firms joining the event. The advisor board suggested another etiquette even that was helpful to the students. • Larry Stephens also mentioned that the students were being offered free membership in the TSCPA during the membership drive. Members of the Advisory Committee were in agreement with this offer. They had 94 applications during the Welcome event in September. • Larry Stephens also mentioned that he had his students in the Ethics class do a project with NASBA/CPT. The students worked very hard on this project and placed 2nd in the nation. They were the only Community College in the project. Congratulations to the students and their instructor on a job well done.

• Larry Stephens passed a list of all the members of the committee and asked them to update their information.

• Accounting Technician Program - There were several follow-up topics, representing proposed changes to the certificate and degree options for students. • There was some discussion on whether to add Micro Economics to the Head Bookkeeper Degree Plan. Kate Rhoden moved to accept the changes and seconded by Gary Brown. • There was discussion on any changes to the Enrolled Agent Certificate, whether we needed to add any other courses. Tracie and Jay will investigate to see which software will be better for that program. There was some discussion on whether to keep the ACNT 1393 as an option or use the Internship course. Gary Brown recommended to keep ENGL 2311 as part of the Certificate. For either the Degree or Certificate the course would need to be kept for Financial Aid purposes. Action Taken: Motion by Kate Rhoden to approve all changes discussed and seconded by Gary Brown.

• Dr. Peoples mentioned that Continuing Education is working with our Program and that students that take their beginning accounting course will be given credit for ACNT 1403. • Chase Insogna asked what ACC is doing to offer more tax courses more specific to tax professionals. There was some discussion within the committee. Tracie Miller mentioned that by the time the students have taken the 3 tax courses we offer, a student would know whether that is the route that they would like to take.

• The Advisory Board recommended that perhaps we could have a mock interview for students with employers for the students would gain some experience. • There was a brief discussion on any By-Laws changes and the committee decided to have an email vote that is due before Thanksgiving.

• The next meeting of the Accounting Advisory Committee is set for May 3, 2019 • The meeting was adjourned by Connie Clark.