Associate Professor in the Practice of Accounting; Associate Dean and Academic Director for Master in Management Emory University, Goizueta Business School
Emory University, Goizueta Business School
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Master's JD
2015-11-29
Public accounting firms emphasize the importance of accounting graduates being proficient in Excel. Since many accounting graduates often aspire to work in public accounting, a question arises as to whether there should be an emphasis on Excel in accounting education. The purpose of this paper is to specifically look at this issue by examining accounting faculty's perceptions of Excel in public accounting and accounting education. We survey 245 faculty members at over 100 accounting programs. We find that a majority of faculty incorporate Excel in their accounting classes consistent with their perception of Excel importance. However, we find that students are not fully proficient in Excel based on faculty's perceptions. This study contributes to the accounting education literature by identifying possible disconnections between Excel skills faculty include in the accounting curriculum and specific Excel skills faculty believe new hires (i.e. recent accounting graduates) most often use in public accounting.
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has spoken about her debt, owing the IRS, and loaning money to the campaign. Usha Rackliffe said it's not uncommon to go on a payment plan with the IRS and other options available to Abrams. Source:
MSNBC Newsweek online
2025-07-15
President Donald Trump has voiced his support for doing away with the capital gains tax on primary home sales, a move that could benefit homeowners and boost turnover in the housing market, but critics say it will disproportionately benefit wealthier households while further reducing federal government revenue.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday after attending the FIFA Club World Cup final, Trump was asked about a bill recently introduced by Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, which would eliminate federal capital gains tax on the sale of primary residences.
Poets & Quants online
2023-08-17
The Master in Management continues to gain traction in the United States. A second leading U.
Yahoo! News online
2022-08-05
Aug. 5—Lockheed Martin's $1.
WABE-FM radio
2021-07-13
Accounting Professor Usha Rackliffe of Emory Goizueta Business School says that most people would do well to take the monthly checks. Anytime you're getting any money it's always better to get it sooner...
WXIA online
2021-03-16
The answer in the State of Georgia is yes, but only in some situations - and not in all of them.
ATLANTA — Washington continues to send stimulus checks to nearly 160 million Americans - delivering the checks either electronically into people’s bank accounts, or delivering them by snail-mail.
AJC.com online
2021-02-26
After watching businesses decimated by the pandemic, Erin Freer kept her two Atlanta hair salons alive with federal aid from the Paycheck Protection Program.
That money kept her 26 employees working, but she estimates it will run out months before the full recovery of the economy — and her business.
11Alive tv
2019-04-15
Usha Rackliffe, an accounting professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, says Amazon is not the first big company to legally whittle their federal corporate tax bill down to nothing.
Center for State and Local Finance online
2017-02-07
Public finance careers can start any number of ways. For Usha Rackliffe, she also wanted to be a journalist.
