Accounting & Business Administration Articles

The seventh annual "Money in Your Pocket" campaign, through which Pennsylvania College of Technology students collaborate with the Internal Revenue Service and Salvation Army volunteers to help hundreds of area residents prepare and file their returns, will begin Feb. 1.

Current job opportunities and issues in the accounting field will be among the topics addressed in a discussion sponsored by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Accounting Society and faculty from the college's School of Business and Computer Technologies. The roundtable will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.

A graduate of Pennsylvania College of Technology's four-year accounting major has been included among the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants' "Outstanding Seniors" for the year. Gina M.

Penn College has been honored by the Internal Revenue Service for its participation in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which uses agency-certified business students to provide free tax help to qualified area residents. The college again collaborated this past tax season with the Salvation Army, where a brief ceremony was held Monday in recognition of that longtime involvement.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students helped hundreds of taxpayers file 2008 federal returns during two months of free tax assistance at area sites, resulting in refunds of more than twice the amount disbursed during the previous season. According to statistics provided by Phillip D.

Chelsey L. Wayman, an accounting major from Rome, was chosen as April's Student of the Month by the Student Government Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology. "Chelsey has been indispensible to TRiO Student Support Services, where she is a peer tutor and coach," her nominator wrote of the Spring 2009 semester's final honoree.

A 1973 graduate of Pennsylvania College of Technology's immediate predecessor institution was honored by the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce at its eighth annual Education Celebration on Thursday. Thomas P.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, in which Pennsylvania College of Technology students and community volunteers from The Salvation Army annually help hundreds of low-income local residents prepare their returns, soon will resume for the 2008 tax season. The Internal Revenue Service's free program will be offered in Room 102 of Penn College's Madigan Library from 4-6 p.m.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, in which Pennsylvania College of Technology students prepare income-tax returns at no cost, will offer three Fridays of by-appointment-only help to Northern Tier residents this season. The program will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 20, March 20 and April 3 at Penn College's North Campus, along Route 6 between Wellsboro and Mansfield.

A professor of business administration/management and head of the business administration department at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently attended the 2008 Biannual International Conference of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education in Barcelona, Spain. At the Sept. 23-25 conference, Terry A.