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A&T Grads Excel As Accounti
ngManage
By Richard Moore
GREENSBORO In
the - recent , ; North
Carolina CPA examina-;
tion, three 1982
graduates from A&T
State University's ac
counting program passed
all parts of the exam on
the first attempt.
At ' the recent
homecoming obser
vance; three other A&T,
graduates returned to
campus, all of them cur
! rently serving in accoun
ting management posi
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These are the kinds of
developments which
have' brought - smiles to
the face of Dr, Quiester
Craig, dean of the na
tionally accredited
School of Business and
Economics.
. When Craig arrived at
A&T in 1972, records in
dicated only a few
graduates had ever pass
ed the rugged CPA ex
amination. He said "things began
to happen" around
1975, after he had beefed
up his faculty (now 75
Eer cent doctorates) and
ad infused the students
with some much needed
confidence about taking
the CPA examination.
Those measures paid
off and during the past
seven years, more than
50 A&T graduates have
passed the CPA exam.
Craig said when he
came to A&T, he im
mediately ; V recognized
some of the problems.
"One problem was that
many of our students
were not even familiar'
with the CPA environ
ment and the re
quirements and expecta
tions of that field. Many
of the students actually
met their first CPA when
they came to the univer
sity," said the dean.
Craig also noted a
need to .upgrade his
faculty, There were no
doctorates teaching ac
counting in the school
; when he arrived. Today, !
, five out nine teachers '"
hold the doctoral degree.
1 In fact, A&T employs
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North Carolina A&T graduates that are now managers are from left: Mit
chell Martin, Daniel Moore and Faye Moore.
five of the approximately
30 blacks with a Ph.D.
degree in accounting.
One of those "role
models" lured to A&T is
34-year-old Dr. Joseph
Boyd, a CPA and the
holder of a Ph.D. in ac
counting from the
University of South
Carolina.
Boyd, who has also
operated his own ac
counting firm, is chair
man of A&T's account
ting department.
, ,"We do try to
motivate our accounting
Students to pass the CPA
exam and to pursue
management positions,''
saidyi Boyd.v ."We tell
k them thai;.-, there are
unlimited opportunities
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after they get basic CPA
experience. It also helps
now that they know peo
ple who have gotten
through the CPA
exams."
Boyd said the much im
proved performance of
A&T's accounting
graduates has helped the
university's recruiting of
good students. "We in
dicate that we teach our
students to pass the .ex
amination and that
makes an impression on
people," he said.
The A&T faculty
helped by inspiring their
graduates to pursue
management positions
and it's paid off, i ,
' It was . with .obvious
pride ithat one of,, the
former acounting ma
jors, Daniel Moore, talk
ed about his recent pro
motion to audit manager
with the Arthur
Andersen & Company in
Philadelphia.
"I'm the first black
manager for Arthur
Andersen in
Philadelphia," said
Moore, "It looks like it
will be another, three or
four years before there
could be another black in
such a position."
His wife, Faye, also an
firm, no other black ap
pears to be dose to
reaching the manage
ment level. Another ac
counting manager is Mit
chell Martin, vice presi
dent and chief financial
officer of CABLE Atlan
ta, Inc. He said there are
a couple of managers of
smaller firms . in ' the
Atlanta area, but only a
very few with a multi
million dollar, corpora
tion. "You can count
them on one hand,' he
added. , .. '
As chief financial of
ficer for his company,
Martin is involved with
investing the company's
funds and with controll
ing the audit. He func
tions in a firm which in
just three years has
generated assets of over
$53 million and has
become the 49th largest
Cable operation in the
United States.
Martin said a spinoff
from his promotion to
management is the fact
that he has been able to
hire three other recent
A&T graduates, one of
whom is also a CPA.
The young managers
each said that hard work
was the key to theil
reaching the manage
ment level.
"You work hard. You
take some punches and
you endure," is the way
Mrs. Moore put it.
The key thing," said
Martin, "is preparing
yourself and being will
ing to pay the price, and
learning how the cor
porate structure works."
"I found out that peo
ple are looking at you
and they are looking for
you to blunder," said
Moor.
"But once they find
out that a debit here at
A&T is the same as a
debit at Duke University,
they begin looking at us
just as CPAs," he said.
rs ExperimentalTraining Program
Gets High Marks At A&T
An experimental train of the. program in the chfldrm pe kent biwy
ing program which em- morning, the teacher awl thin king, ft' really fun
phasizes letting the child,"; children, in ' ' small to see children come np
have a part in his own groups, sit at a taoie ana wnn a reai gooa wea
ue cnuaren oeaae m tne tap. : y v . ,
what area of the room There are currently 27
thejr want to work on. children, ages 3-5, hv
that particular day. ' volved in the program.
After spending time at , which is carried out from
one of the interest 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 aTm.
education, ; is receiving
high marks by the
children, teachers and
parents involved.
The High Scope pro
gram being tried by the
Child Development
laboratory at A&T State
University, is the replica
tion of a program
developed by a private
research foundation in
Michigan.
Dr. Romona Clark,
director of the A&T
laboratory, said High
Scope is a program in
which the children
"learn by a planned way
of doing and par
ticipating. The child
must have a part in his
own education"
The program, accor
ding to Dr. Clark, is an
approach to helping
children develop
language skills and the
ability to reason.
In the opening phase
centers located in the
large room, the children
are reconvened for
"recall time."
"In this period, the
teacher asks how they
carried out the plan,
what materials they used
and what else could have
been done."
"This involves cons
tant' questioning by the
The remainder of the
diildren's day is spent in
activities more teacher
lirected. ?
High Scope is based
on the teachings of Jean
Piaget, the father of
:hild development, ac
;ording to Dr. Clark.
She is assisted in the
program by three profes
sional teachers and stn-
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teacher," said Dr. Clark, dent interns from the
"There are a lot of ques- departments of home
tions which require more economics, early
than a yes or no answer, childhood education,
This is how the children social work, recreation
learn." and speech.
The A&T professor Dr. Clark, who holds
said there has been a the Ph.D. degree in
definite improvement of family relations and
language skills for child development, from
children in the program. Oklahoma State Univer
"Thc teachers love the sity, said A&T is seeking
program. They say that to become a training site
discipline is easy to for teachers in the High
maintain oecause Scope method,
NIA National Service
Weeks in Progress
PERRY
Perry Named
Personnel
Director
A&T eraduate. is the
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her son of Charles and Mrs.
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LAWRENCEVILLE,
VA. Paul Perry has
been named Personnel
Director at Saint Paul's
College. An accountant
at Saint Paul's for four
years, Perry assumed his
duties " in the newly
created position Nov; 1 .
He received Jus B.S
and M.Arrite'grei!s'vfront-sultation,i'
"Every day is a new
opportunity," says
James Hawkins, chair
man, National Services
Weeks, sponsored by the
National Insurance
Association (NIA).
"Every day" refers to
the seven-week campaign
that is being carried out,
November 1 through
December 17, by the 33'
black-owned insurance
compaines that comprise
the National Insurance
Association.
The "opportunity"
relates to a goal of Na
tional Service Weeks,
special service rendered
to each policyholder by
representatives of the in
, surance companies. In
addition to personal con-
agents : will
has 4 satkfactoriW mm- ionn caroima central - nave special literature
pieted : the 7esc
course of study at the
Airman Apprentice
School, Department of
v the Navy, Orlando, Fla.
He is now aboard the
USS Independence in
Italy.
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Perry is married to the
former Ms. Patricia Har
ris and they have three
children, Jerrold, Paul
and Mia. Perry and his
wife are both natives of
Durham, N.C.
A brochure, "Protection
what life insurance can
do and how the NIA
companies can help; a
special checklist provides
a "Security Inventory" .
for the policyholder.
Chairman Hawkins,
vice president, director
of agencies, Universal
Life, Memphis, states,
"Our policyholders are
becoming ' more
sophisticated, more ser
vice concious. They have
a desire for the kinds of
security that life in
surance provides.
Escellent service, which
we as insurance
counselors must provide,
will help to create a
climate of confidence
and trust." ;
; North . Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance
Co. is a member of the
Association.
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