{"id":7361,"date":"2018-05-08T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news-new\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2018-05-16T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:02:22","slug":"exploring-the-unfamiliar-territory-of-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/exploring-the-unfamiliar-territory-of-accounting\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Unfamiliar Territory of Accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"

By all accounts, Patrick Rose is adept at making changes and taking things in stride. After graduating from the University of Connecticut, Rose followed employment and study opportunities that took him in just three years to Colorado and New Mexico before he moved to Charlotte, NC. Once there, he decided it was time to develop his career and find his way to graduate school. Rose considered himself good with numbers and \u2013 through his diverse work experiences \u2013 ready and willing to explore unfamiliar territory. Initially encouraged by the value of in-state tuition, Rose looked at NC State\u2019s Jenkins Master of Accounting (MAC) Program<\/a> in the Poole College of Management.<\/p>\n

With additional scrutiny, Rose was drawn to the NC State MAC Program\u2019s condensed timeline of only one year to completion. But since he has an undergraduate degree in natural sciences, the MAC Program\u2019s Accelerated Summer Accounting Prerequisite (ASAP) Program sealed the deal for Rose.<\/p>\n

ASAP is\u00a0a 5-week summer bridge program designed for non-accounting majors. Rose was unfazed by the promise of an intensive curriculum: \u201cI knew it was going to be a bit of a challenge, \u2026 I will say that they did a very good job\u201d adding that ASAP was \u201cset up in a reasonable way so that in the end of it we could demonstrate that we had the knowledge under our belts. We had a separate professor each week for each of the subjects. It was very much a crash course in exactly what that subject was.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Rose, the ASAP program provided not just prerequisite knowledge, but context. Both he and the professors under whom he and his peers studied during the ASAP Program got to know one another. Together, he feels that they established that in the coming year they would be prepared to work hard to bridge the inevitable gaps that arise not just for non-traditional students, like Rose, but for any student in a rigorous time-intensive program.<\/p>\n

Even with Rose\u2019s capacity to self-motivate and \u201ctake on new routines and run with it,\u201d what then was the hook that connected Rose to the MAC Program for the year that followed ASAP?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe faculty,\u201d Rose answered. \u201cI know that as an undergrad I showed up to class, I did the work that I needed to do\u2026 I did not really need to meet professors.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Rose found in the MAC Program a different student-faculty tone: \u201cHere \u2013 probably due to a) the rigor of the program and b) due to the nature of grad school, the faculty is much more involved, I know them better here.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the year drew to a close, Rose took full advantage of the career management services he found in the Jenkins MAC Program. Still thinking at the outset that he\u2019d pursue a traditional public accounting role, he attended every evening of the \u201cMeet the Firms\u201d events arranged by Sara Concini and her team. Concini, assistant director of Career Services for the Jenkins MAC Program, remembers well working with Rose.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe recalled vividly that he had spent his career up to that point doing jobs for which he\u2019d had little prior experience and that he was always willing to explore and would end up succeeding. He\u2019s talented, creative and truly open to the possibilities,\u201dsaid Concini.<\/p>\n

With Rose\u2019s own openness to new experience, and Concini\u2019s encouragement, Rose redirected his job hunt away from traditional public accounting firms.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point I sat down with [Sara] and mentioned a Bank of America position that intrigued me and she said \u2018you know what \u2013 based on your history and me interacting with you so far \u2013 you may be more well-suited to go the business\/finance route because you aren\u2019t focused exclusively on accounting.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Patrick Rose got that job at Bank of America, and on July 9 he will begin his next professional chapter as he settles into the Boston-based role as an internal auditor in Bank of America\u2019s Corporate Analyst Program. When he reflects on his experience in the Jenkins MAC Program, he comes again to a thread that runs through his graduate experience \u2013 personalization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire time I didn\u2019t feel I was in a cookie cutter program.\u201d Rose looks back on his intensive year not just as a student that passed through a high-quality program with the metrics to illustrate its value, but also as a process in which he had \u201csomeone to look at [my] unique situation and try to guide me the best way they can.\u201d Rose and his Jenkins MAC Program colleagues will be hooded on May 10 and graduate several days later, May 12. See full Commencement Details<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

This article was written for the NC State Poole College of Management by Fran Wescott.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"By all accounts, Patrick Rose is adept at making changes and taking things in stride. After graduating from the University of Connecticut, Rose followed employment and study opportunities that took him in just three years to Colorado and New Mexico before he moved to Charlotte, NC. Once there, he decided it was time to develop his career and find his way to graduate school. Rose considered himself good with numbers and \u2013 through his diverse work experiences \u2013 ready and willing to explore unfamiliar territory. Initially encouraged by the value of in-state tuition, Rose looked at NC State\u2019s Jenkins Master of Accounting (MAC) Program<\/a> in the Poole College of Management.\r\n\r\nWith additional scrutiny, Rose was drawn to the NC State MAC Program\u2019s condensed timeline of only one year to completion. But since he has an undergraduate degree in natural sciences, the MAC Program\u2019s Accelerated Summer Accounting Prerequisite (ASAP) Program sealed the deal for Rose.\r\n\r\nASAP is\u00a0a 5-week summer bridge program designed for non-accounting majors. Rose was unfazed by the promise of an intensive curriculum: \u201cI knew it was going to be a bit of a challenge, \u2026 I will say that they did a very good job\u201d adding that ASAP was \u201cset up in a reasonable way so that in the end of it we could demonstrate that we had the knowledge under our belts. We had a separate professor each week for each of the subjects. It was very much a crash course in exactly what that subject was.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor Rose, the ASAP program provided not just prerequisite knowledge, but context. Both he and the professors under whom he and his peers studied during the ASAP Program got to know one another. Together, he feels that they established that in the coming year they would be prepared to work hard to bridge the inevitable gaps that arise not just for non-traditional students, like Rose, but for any student in a rigorous time-intensive program.\r\n\r\nEven with Rose\u2019s capacity to self-motivate and \u201ctake on new routines and run with it,\u201d what then was the hook that connected Rose to the MAC Program for the year that followed ASAP?\r\n\r\n\u201cThe faculty,\u201d Rose answered. \u201cI know that as an undergrad I showed up to class, I did the work that I needed to do\u2026 I did not really need to meet professors.\u201d\r\n\r\nBut Rose found in the MAC Program a different student-faculty tone: \u201cHere \u2013 probably due to a) the rigor of the program and b) due to the nature of grad school, the faculty is much more involved, I know them better here.\u201d\r\n\r\nAs the year drew to a close, Rose took full advantage of the career management services he found in the Jenkins MAC Program. Still thinking at the outset that he\u2019d pursue a traditional public accounting role, he attended every evening of the \u201cMeet the Firms\u201d events arranged by Sara Concini and her team. Concini, assistant director of Career Services for the Jenkins MAC Program, remembers well working with Rose.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe recalled vividly that he had spent his career up to that point doing jobs for which he\u2019d had little prior experience and that he was always willing to explore and would end up succeeding. He\u2019s talented, creative and truly open to the possibilities,\u201dsaid Concini.\r\n\r\nWith Rose\u2019s own openness to new experience, and Concini\u2019s encouragement, Rose redirected his job hunt away from traditional public accounting firms.\r\n\r\n\u201cAt one point I sat down with [Sara] and mentioned a Bank of America position that intrigued me and she said \u2018you know what \u2013 based on your history and me interacting with you so far \u2013 you may be more well-suited to go the business\/finance route because you aren\u2019t focused exclusively on accounting.\u2019 \u201d\r\n\r\nIn fact, Patrick Rose got that job at Bank of America, and on July 9 he will begin his next professional chapter as he settles into the Boston-based role as an internal auditor in Bank of America\u2019s Corporate Analyst Program. When he reflects on his experience in the Jenkins MAC Program, he comes again to a thread that runs through his graduate experience \u2013 personalization.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe entire time I didn\u2019t feel I was in a cookie cutter program.\u201d Rose looks back on his intensive year not just as a student that passed through a high-quality program with the metrics to illustrate its value, but also as a process in which he had \u201csomeone to look at [my] unique situation and try to guide me the best way they can.\u201d Rose and his Jenkins MAC Program colleagues will be hooded on May 10 and graduate several days later, May 12. See full Commencement Details<\/a> here.\r\n\r\nThis article was written for the NC State Poole College of Management by Fran Wescott.<\/em>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Rose began in the NC State Jenkins MAC Program\u2019s Accelerated Summer Accounting Prerequisite (ASAP) Program for non-accounting majors. He graduates May 2018 and enters Bank of America’s Corporate Analyst Program in Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,323,398,286,9],"tags":[252,159,250,732],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting","category-departments","category-graduate","category-mac-program","category-newswire","category-students","tag-asap-program","tag-graduation","tag-jenkins-mac-program","tag-master-of-accounting"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}