Earned the third highest CPA exam score in Oregon during 2022. Marina is currently an audit staff at Perkins & Co.

A little good fortune and a lot of hard work has made Rick Hawkins a familiar figure in the City of Roses accounting community. A lifelong Portlander and PSU graduate (B.S. Accounting ’69 ), Hawkins has worked 52 years as a CPA at some of the city’s most successful accounting firms. Along the way, Hawkins has made it a mission to share a lifetime of knowledge and prosperity with PSU.

Senior VP and portfolio manager at Ferguson Wellman Capital Management; named a 2023 Portland Business Journal Women of Influence.

Promoted to Partner at Talbot, Korvola & Warwick

Accounting professionals often work in an ambiguous and complex decision-making environment, requiring critical thinking skills and professional judgment.   Employers are seeking out new hires who possess these abilities particularly as lower-level accounting tasks increasingly are outsourced or automated. But despite efforts of faculty, Accounting students may not be learning the critical thinking skills they need to be successful in their profession.  

To address the need to more effectively develop students’ critical thinking skills, PSU Finance Professor Janet Hamilton, Accounting Professor Emeritus Ray Johnson and Senior Accounting Instructor John Eckroth recently published the paper “Critical Thinking Skills in the Accounting Curriculum” in the Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research.  

PSU Accounting faculty members, Elizabeth Almer, Joleen Kremin, Mary Marshall, and Kathy Rupley were published in Issues in Accounting Education with research on ChatGPT, a large language-learning model that utilizes machine learning to generate natural language text.

Matt Kaufman was a plenary speaker on “Removing Barriers to Student Success” at the American Accounting Association Audit Mid-Year Meeting in Austin TX. He spoke about his research co-authored with Joleen Kremin titled “Opening Doors: (In)Equity Audits in Accounting Education.”

Dr. Yuthas has been elected to the Fellowship of The British Blockchain Association. She was officially inducted as a BBA Fellow at the 5th Blockchain International Scientific Conference #ISC2023 in Manchester on March 18, 2023. 

John Eckroth joined the board of Oregon Community Foundation and is serving on its audit committee. 

Mary Marshall joined the board of Portland Tax Forum.

In May, the Accounting faculty hosted visiting scholar, Professor Kris Hoang from the University of Alabama who presented her research “Middle Power and the Audit Senior Associate” in a faculty workshop.

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