Professor's Work to be Published

Four professors in the Department have recently had journal articles published or accepted or publication:

1. “Do Mutual Funds with Few Holdings Outperform the Market?” by Dr. Abhay Kaushik, Assistant Professor of Finance, accepted for publication in the Journal of Asset Management.

2.  "Government-wide Information and Operational Accountability” by Dr. Bruce Chase, Professor of Accounting, published in the Journal of Government Financial Management.

3.“An Economic Analysis of Bonus Certificates – Second Generation of Structured Products” by Dr. Rodrigo Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Finance, accepted for publication in the Review of Future Markets

4 Dr. Helen Roybark (2008). “Section 404 Reporting and Attestation Reports: A Descriptive Analysis of Attestation Reports Issued for ICFR During the First Two Years of Section 404 Reporting.” The Icfai Journal of Audit Practice, Volume V, No. 3 (July): 7-34.

Dr. Helen Roybark (2008). “Educational interventions for teaching the new auditor independence rules.” Journal of Accounting Education, Volume 26 (January): 1-29.
 

Student Awards & Honors

A number of the students in our programs were recognized for their outstanding achievements this past year:
• Ms. Cassandra Price received the Wall Street Journal Award for academic excellence at the College graduation ceremony in May; she was given an Outstanding Student Award by the University President at the University graduation ceremony; she was also recognized as an ESPN the Magazine and CoSIDA second team Academic All-District winner; she received the George A. Christenberry Award for Academic Excellence from the Big South Conference.
• Ms. Annemijn Van der Bijl received the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants (VSCPA) award and was recognized as the Outstanding Senior in Accounting at our College graduation ceremony in May; she was given an Outstanding Student Award by the University President at the University graduation ceremony.
• Mr. Joseph Wildt, a graduate of the Honors Program, was recognized as the Outstanding Senior in Finance at our College graduation ceremony; he was also given an Outstanding Student Award by the University President at the University graduation ceremony.
• Mr. Chris Pertl, a Kirk’s Scholar and President of SMIPO, was the recipient of the Dean’s Award as the Outstanding Senior in the College of Business and Economics at our Graduation ceremony in May.
• Mr. Mehdi Benhammou was named to the Big South All-Academic team; he was the top-ranked male student-athlete at Radford University (based on GPA); Named All-Conference in both singles and doubles.
• Jeffrey Rash was designated as an outstanding governmental accounting student and received a scholarship from the VGFOA.
• Amanda Murphy was designated as an outstanding governmental accounting student and received a scholarship from the VGFOA.
She was also designated as the outstanding rising senior in accounting and was awarded the Lanigan, Ryan, Malcolm and Doyle scholarship.
• Derek Bayless was designated as the outstanding rising junior in accounting and was awarded the Lanigan, Ryan, Malcolm and Doyle scholarship.