Isaiah Rosario, Senior Writer
The Manhattan University Accounting Society announced its new executive board for the year. Senior Sebastiano Paccione is the society’s new president, and senior Kathy Vu alongside senior Roen Crameri are the co-vice presidents.
The club stated that their mission, “is to inform and assist our members to become active participants in the accounting community,” according to @omalleybusiness_mu on Instagram.
Each semester, the club hosts networking and informational events on important topics about accounting, such as the CPA exam, which tests a person’s knowledge of financial reporting.
Melody Flores, social media chair, wrote to The Quadrangle in an email about her excitement for the upcoming year in this new role.
“As the social media coordinator for the Accounting Society, I’m excited about this role because I get to make accounting more engaging by creating posts and designing flyers for our events,” Flores said. “I also love that I get to attend these events and learn new things from alumni and professionals in the field. Plus, the people I work with make this experience even better—they’re a great community that makes the society even more enjoyable to be a part of!”
The club recently hosted a Volunteer Income Tax Assistant (VITA) event and will be hosting a Becker event in the future. The Becker event will help those who are planning to take the CPA exam become better prepared.
Feedback from members of this club has been quite positive thus far. During the VITA event, students were able to volunteer to file people’s tax returns as a way to build up their personal experience. Several people showed interest by coming to the event and volunteering.
Paccione spoke about how he believes individuals who are a part of the club or even have an interest in it could benefit both on an academic and professional level from membership.
“[The club] is not going to tell you if you’re passionate about [accounting], but it’s going to give you the resources,” Paccione said. “It’s going to give you alumni, and it’s going to offer you a chance to take a step out of your comfort zone … Academically, if you have any questions, most accounting students [at MU] are going to be a part of the Accounting Society. It’s a nice, close-knit community if you do have questions. It is a very nice resource to have.”
The Accounting Society emphasizes the importance of alumni relations when it comes to job and internship searches, and hopes to use these connections to benefit individuals who join the society. The club makes it one of their key focuses when organizing events.
“We are working on getting speakers to our events, especially alumni who may have been working at the big four firms,” Berg said. “We have a big alumni network with them. From a personal experience, it was because of that network that I was able to land on an internship with them coming up in the future … we’re going to continue to expand our alumni network, getting professional speakers from the big four firms, other tax firms and audit firms, to expand those alumni connections with our members so that they have a better chance of landing an internship.”
One of the main goals of Accounting Society is to orient itself towards more accounting students. The society is hoping to ensure that students have an idea of the types of career paths they could go down within the accounting field. For more information on the society, students can stay up to date on the organization’s social media accounts.