Young CPAs in the Classoom

The Masters of Accounting (MAC) curriculum at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is designed to provide an understanding of accounting and business practices that many graduates face when they enter the professional accounting and business worlds. A large part of that curriculum is learning the importance of financial literacy.   

The Young CPAs have teamed up with NCSU’s MAC program in a financial literacy effort. This alliance includes CPA volunteers from the Triangle area who act as mentors to students during the course of this program. Students participating in the curriculum will be given various projects throughout the semester to increase their community’s financial literacy awareness. The mentors guide them as they identify ways to reach out into their community, including campus. At the end of the program, MAC students will gain a better sense of the importance of financial literacy and how they can help make a lifelong difference in the lives of others.  

The NCSU MAC program is currently looking for mentors for the fall and spring semesters of the 2009–2010 school year. If you are interested in volunteering or obtaining more information, please contact Kenia Caze. 


Financial Literacy on the Gulf Coast

In November 2007, a team of our own young CPAs teamed up with a few young CPAs from Louisiana for the first-ever Gulf Coast service camp in New Orleans. There, they provided free consultations to small business owners throughout the city. Additionally, they hosted group seminars on starting a small business, QuickBooks, and general financial literacy. The trip was an amazing success story of what happens when CPAs apply their “ordinary” skills to achieve extraordinary objectives. Read more about the trip in this Interim Report article.

Now the first team has blazed a trail, and the path is ready for the next wave of pioneers. Responses have poured in from around the country, and multi-state teams formed for the 2008 projects:

Gulfport/Biloxi, Mississippi
May 19 - 24
Read about it in this article from the Alabama Society of CPAs.

New Orleans, Louisiana
July 21 - 25

New Orleans, Louisiana
November 10 - 14