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The month of January is closing for all financial reporting activity at noon on Thursday, Feb. 9. Journals not posted at that time will go into February business. Final January reports are scheduled to be available Friday, Feb. 10. February reports are scheduled to be available Monday, Feb. 13. These dates and other important dates...

The month of November is closing for all financial reporting activity at noon on Thursday, Dec. 8. Journals not posted at that time will go into December business. Final November reports are scheduled to be available on Friday, Dec. 9. December reports are scheduled to be available Monday, Dec. 12. These dates and other important...

Aleksandra (“Ally”) B. Zimmerman, who this fall joins the nationally ranked NIU Department of Accountancy as an assistant professor, received the 2016 Doctoral Dissertation Award for Innovation in Accounting Education from the American Accounting Association. Her study examined the impact of audit partner Big 4 experience on audit pricing in the non-Big 4 firm audit...

The NIU College of Business has announced that Natalie T. Churyk, professor of accountancy, has been appointed the William Doyle Endowed Professor in Accountancy. Churyk completed her Ph.D. at University South Carolina in 2001 and joined the NIU faculty shortly thereafter. She teaches in the Masters of Accounting Science (Leadership) program, specifically graduate accounting research. She...

A first-generation college student from Mendota, Timothy Dimond realized at a young age that taking up the family business wasn’t for him. “I grew up on a farm,” Dimond said. “Aside from dreaming about being an astronaut or cowboy, realistically I could have been a farmer. But the industry was getting tougher, so I decided...

Back in the days when the CPA exam was a grueling pencil-and-paper event, students enrolled in the NIU CPA Review always knew that in the wee hours between the first and second day of testing, help was only a phone call away. “Debra would give them her phone number at the hotel and tell them...

NIU junior Linnea Scherer hopes to change the way women are portrayed in video games, and she already has developed an impressive game concept thanks to the McKearn Summer Fellows program she participated in last year. “The McKearn Fellows Program was amazing. It was what got me to this point,” says Scherer of Elburn, a...

Campus Recreation will launch a new internship program during the Spring 2014 semester. The program is designed to offer students a practical application experience, thus bridging the gap between the academic setting and career goals and aspirations. Campus Recreation interns will be given the opportunity to learn about the foundation of the department and program...

NIU’s accountancy program continues to stake its claim as one of the best programs in the country, checking in at No. 16 on the Public Accounting Report’s annual ranking of best accounting programs. The program has been a mainstay on the list since the publication began ranking programs 32 years ago. The annual asks accountancy...

Ordinarily, the topic of accounting wouldn’t stimulate an exciting discussion for most. However, the way that professor Tim West teaches his Accounting 679 class makes it a topic worthy of debate. In an effort to “better help students develop an ability to think on their feet,” West created a learning experience that simulates the climate...

You don’t have to tell the people at Northern Illinois University that Nabal Jefferson is special. Already the winner of a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award worth $15,000 and a $7,500 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, the second team Capital One Academic All-American noseguard for the Huskies has drawn admiration from his teammates, coaches and professors throughout...

Few students studying in Northern Illinois University’s nationally acclaimed Department of Accountancy ever considered that their jobs might include arresting drug dealers, conducting undercover interviews with bookies or raiding crooked tax preparers. However, they learned that those things are all in a day’s work for accountants who work as criminal investigators for the Internal Revenue...