{"id":45704,"date":"2016-10-20T19:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=45704"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:17:10","slug":"vi-society-cpas-present-accounting-scholarships-uvi-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=45704","title":{"rendered":"VI Society Of CPAs To Present Accounting Scholarships To UVI Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><b class=\"\"><\/b><span class=\"\">ST. CROIX &#8212; The Virgin Islands Society of Certified Public Accountants (VISCPA) will present two minority accounting scholarships for $2,000 each to University of the Virgin Islands accounting majors at its 2016 annual membership meeting on Friday, Nov. 4, UVI announced today. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. and will be teleconferenced between the St. Thomas Campus and the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u201cPresenting these scholarships to students at UVI is a very special part of our annual meeting,\u201d said Dr. Sherri L. Levin, CPA and vice president of VISCPA on St. Thomas.\u00a0 \u201cWe invite not only the students, but also their parents, friends, classmates and professors.\u201d Levin continued, \u201cIn addition to rewarding the students for their hard work and achievement, the scholarships are a great way to bring attention to the accounting major, and to encourage other UVI students to enter the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">In addition to presenting the scholarships, the Society will vote on new board members and will approve changes to the by-laws for membership vote that will accommodate retired Certified Public Accountants (CPA), non-resident CPA\u2019s licensed outside the Virgin Islands, and non-CPA accounting professionals.\u00a0 There will also be a guest speaker \u2013 Theresa Grafenstine, inspector general of the U.S. House of Representatives \u2013 who will discuss making a difference as a CPA in federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Dr. Sherri Levin is a professor and program chair for the Graduate School of Accounting at University of Maryland University College, where she teaches financial accounting online from her home in the Virgin Islands. As an educator committed to increasing diversity in the accounting industry, it was important to Levin to bring to fruition the scholarship project initiated by another VISCPA member years earlier.\u00a0 She reached out to the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which embraced VISCPA\u2019s initiative. AICPA incorporated VISCPA into its Minority Scholarship program, which for more than four decades has encouraged outstanding minority students to select accounting as a major, and to enter the profession.\u00a0 VISCPA members voted to raise scholarship money by increasing their annual dues.\u00a0 AICPA matches those funds and together with the VISCPA collaboratively selects the winners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">According to Levin, enrollment in accounting degree programs is on the rise nationally. \u201cThe demand for accounting services has expanded as the need to protect information assets, conduct sophisticated data analytics, and assist in strategic decision making have become an integral service CPAs are expected to perform.\u201d\u00a0 In addition, large numbers of baby boomer CPAs are retiring thus, intensifying demand for accounting professionals. VISCPA members are committed to encouraging and supporting UVI accounting majors to prepare for and become VI licensed CPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u201cAs older CPA\u2019s retire or leave the territory, it is important to have a younger generation of trained and certified professionals to fill the void,\u201d said Levin.\u00a0 \u201cOur hope is the scholarship recipients and other UVI accounting graduates decide to work in the Virgin Islands to serve the public need for professional accountants in the territory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">This is the third year <\/span><span class=\"\">that the VISCPA\/AICPA Minority Scholarship will be available to accounting majors at the University of the Virgin Islands. Last year\u2019s recipients were Eula Cyrille and Shanna Isaac. To apply, you must be a junior or senior accounting major attending UVI.\u00a0 The application deadline is April 1, 2017, and the scholarship will be awarded in the summer of 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">To apply for the scholarship <\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/viscpa.org\/scholarship.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"\">see this link<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\"> and click <\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thiswaytocpa.com\/education\/aicpa-legacy-scholarships\/scholarship-minority-accounting-students\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"\">\u201cApply Online HERE\u201d<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\"> on the VISCPA website.\u00a0 To learn more about the scholarship, visit: <\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thiswaytocpa.com\/education\/aicpa-legacy-scholarships\/scholarship-minority-accounting-students\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"\">https:\/\/www.thiswaytocpa.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; The Virgin Islands Society of Certified Public Accountants (VISCPA) will present two minority accounting scholarships for $2,000 each to University of the Virgin Islands accounting majors at its 2016 annual membership meeting on Friday, Nov. 4, UVI announced today. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. and will be teleconferenced between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1078,191,147],"tags":[1014,613],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VI Society Of CPAs To Present Accounting Scholarships To UVI Students - V.I. 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