ASCPA's 9th Annual Educator Conference
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9:50 – 10:00 Welcome – Dena Mitchell, CPA, Education Committee Chair
10:00 – 11:15 Flip Your Accounting Classroom
Chris Edmonds & Mark Edmonds – UAB
11:15 – 12:05 Practitioner Panel – Insight from local, regional, and national firms on how educators can best prepare students for the transition from classroom to career
Representatives from: Jackson Thornton, Hartmann, Blackmon Kilgore, Warren Averett, PwC, Barfield Murphy, Shank & Smith
12:05 – 12:50 Lunch
12:50 – 1:10 An Update from the Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy, and the State Board Education Task Force
Boyd Busby, Executive Director, Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy
1:10 – 2:00 Hiring Trends from a Big Four Perspective
Deloitte
2:00 – 2:10 Break
2:10 – 3:00 Educator Panel – Discussion of best practices for teaching
Lisa McKinney, Lowell Broom, Greg Prescott, Scott Lane