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Talk:How I increased my GMAT score 180 points in 8 days

2008-07-16T14:27:23Z

Spierce: New page: I don't think it is a good idea to compare the actual GMAT scores to practice GMAT scores. All of the practice tests that are put out seem to give really low scores so you will get scared...

I don't think it is a good idea to compare the actual GMAT scores to practice GMAT scores. All of the practice tests that are put out seem to give really low scores so you will get scared and pay a lot of money for their classes. The MBA.com tests are really good gauges but besides that the other practice tests are a lot harder than the actual GMAT. My average on Kaplan practice tests was on average 100 points lower than I got on the MBA.com tests and the real GMAT.

Talk:Winners of the NCAA basketball picking contest

2008-04-11T04:22:04Z

Spierce:

I think we should also somehow weight the results for interest and knowledge of basketball. This may yeild a more interesting winner.

I don't think so Jeff.

What classes should I take?

2008-04-10T02:12:55Z

Spierce: /* Archival Skill Sets */

What is most important for a Ph.D. student to know before entering a Ph.D. program depends to a degree on the [[Research Interests|type of research]] that the student wants to conduct. The three "tracts" of research can be separated based on whether the student is interested in conducting [[analytical]], [[archival]], or [[experimental]] research.

===[[Analytical]] Skill Sets===
Students that are successfull in analytical fields often have engineering, math, or physics undergraduate degrees. If one is to master analytical accounting research, advanced mathematical skills are necessary. Good classes to take would be Econ 382 (Price Theory) and Econ 478 (Game Theory). Any of the 500 level Econ classes would also help. Get at least an Econ Minor and consider spending some extra time to get a double major in Economics.

===[[Archival]] Skill Sets===
Take Econ 588 rather than Stat 512. If you have time it would be beneficial to take Stat 441 and 442 which are similar to 588 but more in depth. More math is better. Linear Algebra is probably more important than Multivariable Calculus if you have to choose.

===[[Experimental]] Skill Sets===
One of the most important skills to develop as an experimentalist is research design. The strength of experimental methodology is internal validity. Experimentalists should rarely if ever sacrifice internal validity to achieve other types of validity; thus, being able to design high quality experiments is very important. To develop this skill, a Ph.D. prep student would benefit from a detailed study of Cook and Campbell, an experimental design class (if they offer one at BYU), and attempting to design an experiment and then seeking feedback from an experimentalist.
Experimental research is not as popular in accounting as archival research. Experimentalists must therefore be conversant in archival research methodologies and so developing the skills used by an archivalist will make your life a lot easier in your Ph.D. program.

What classes should I take?

2008-04-10T02:11:51Z

Spierce: /* Analytical Skill Sets */

What is most important for a Ph.D. student to know before entering a Ph.D. program depends to a degree on the [[Research Interests|type of research]] that the student wants to conduct. The three "tracts" of research can be separated based on whether the student is interested in conducting [[analytical]], [[archival]], or [[experimental]] research.

===[[Analytical]] Skill Sets===
Students that are successfull in analytical fields often have engineering, math, or physics undergraduate degrees. If one is to master analytical accounting research, advanced mathematical skills are necessary. Good classes to take would be Econ 382 (Price Theory) and Econ 478 (Game Theory). Any of the 500 level Econ classes would also help. Get at least an Econ Minor and consider spending some extra time to get a double major in Economics.

===[[Archival]] Skill Sets===
Take Econ 588 rather than Stat 512. If you have time it would be beneficial to take Stat 441 and 442 which are similar to 588 but more in depth.

===[[Experimental]] Skill Sets===
One of the most important skills to develop as an experimentalist is research design. The strength of experimental methodology is internal validity. Experimentalists should rarely if ever sacrifice internal validity to achieve other types of validity; thus, being able to design high quality experiments is very important. To develop this skill, a Ph.D. prep student would benefit from a detailed study of Cook and Campbell, an experimental design class (if they offer one at BYU), and attempting to design an experiment and then seeking feedback from an experimentalist.
Experimental research is not as popular in accounting as archival research. Experimentalists must therefore be conversant in archival research methodologies and so developing the skills used by an archivalist will make your life a lot easier in your Ph.D. program.

What classes should I take?

2008-04-10T02:07:18Z

Spierce: /* Archival Skill Sets */

What is most important for a Ph.D. student to know before entering a Ph.D. program depends to a degree on the [[Research Interests|type of research]] that the student wants to conduct. The three "tracts" of research can be separated based on whether the student is interested in conducting [[analytical]], [[archival]], or [[experimental]] research.

===[[Analytical]] Skill Sets===
Students that are successfull in analytical fields often have engineering, math, or physics undergraduate degrees. If one is to master analytical accounting research, advanced mathematical skills are necessary. Good classes to take would be Econ 382 (Price Theory) and Econ 478 (Game Theory). Any of the 500 level Econ classes would also help.

===[[Archival]] Skill Sets===
Take Econ 588 rather than Stat 512. If you have time it would be beneficial to take Stat 441 and 442 which are similar to 588 but more in depth.

===[[Experimental]] Skill Sets===
One of the most important skills to develop as an experimentalist is research design. The strength of experimental methodology is internal validity. Experimentalists should rarely if ever sacrifice internal validity to achieve other types of validity; thus, being able to design high quality experiments is very important. To develop this skill, a Ph.D. prep student would benefit from a detailed study of Cook and Campbell, an experimental design class (if they offer one at BYU), and attempting to design an experiment and then seeking feedback from an experimentalist.
Experimental research is not as popular in accounting as archival research. Experimentalists must therefore be conversant in archival research methodologies and so developing the skills used by an archivalist will make your life a lot easier in your Ph.D. program.

What classes should I take?

2008-04-10T02:04:16Z

Spierce: /* Archival Skill Sets */

What is most important for a Ph.D. student to know before entering a Ph.D. program depends to a degree on the [[Research Interests|type of research]] that the student wants to conduct. The three "tracts" of research can be separated based on whether the student is interested in conducting [[analytical]], [[archival]], or [[experimental]] research.

===[[Analytical]] Skill Sets===
Students that are successfull in analytical fields often have engineering, math, or physics undergraduate degrees. If one is to master analytical accounting research, advanced mathematical skills are necessary. Good classes to take would be Econ 382 (Price Theory) and Econ 478 (Game Theory). Any of the 500 level Econ classes would also help.

===[[Archival]] Skill Sets===
Take Econ 588 rather than Stat 512.

===[[Experimental]] Skill Sets===
One of the most important skills to develop as an experimentalist is research design. The strength of experimental methodology is internal validity. Experimentalists should rarely if ever sacrifice internal validity to achieve other types of validity; thus, being able to design high quality experiments is very important. To develop this skill, a Ph.D. prep student would benefit from a detailed study of Cook and Campbell, an experimental design class (if they offer one at BYU), and attempting to design an experiment and then seeking feedback from an experimentalist.
Experimental research is not as popular in accounting as archival research. Experimentalists must therefore be conversant in archival research methodologies and so developing the skills used by an archivalist will make your life a lot easier in your Ph.D. program.

What classes should I take?

2008-04-10T02:02:55Z

Spierce: /* Analytical Skill Sets */

What is most important for a Ph.D. student to know before entering a Ph.D. program depends to a degree on the [[Research Interests|type of research]] that the student wants to conduct. The three "tracts" of research can be separated based on whether the student is interested in conducting [[analytical]], [[archival]], or [[experimental]] research.

===[[Analytical]] Skill Sets===
Students that are successfull in analytical fields often have engineering, math, or physics undergraduate degrees. If one is to master analytical accounting research, advanced mathematical skills are necessary. Good classes to take would be Econ 382 (Price Theory) and Econ 478 (Game Theory). Any of the 500 level Econ classes would also help.

===[[Archival]] Skill Sets===

===[[Experimental]] Skill Sets===
One of the most important skills to develop as an experimentalist is research design. The strength of experimental methodology is internal validity. Experimentalists should rarely if ever sacrifice internal validity to achieve other types of validity; thus, being able to design high quality experiments is very important. To develop this skill, a Ph.D. prep student would benefit from a detailed study of Cook and Campbell, an experimental design class (if they offer one at BYU), and attempting to design an experiment and then seeking feedback from an experimentalist.
Experimental research is not as popular in accounting as archival research. Experimentalists must therefore be conversant in archival research methodologies and so developing the skills used by an archivalist will make your life a lot easier in your Ph.D. program.

Talk:Northwestern University

2008-04-04T06:12:41Z

Spierce:

Bob Magee was The Managing Editor, and Thomas Lys is one of the 5 editors for JAE (none of the 5 is distinguished as Senior or Associate Editor).

Were the people listed as "Editor of TAR" THE editor of TAR, or AN editor of TAR? Is there some name for the difference? -Jeff Hoopes

I updated it to show they were associate editors.

Also, according to the dictionary empirical means "derived from experiment and observation rather than theory." It is incorrect to refer to archival research as empirical and experimental research as not empirical research. Both methodologies are empirical in nature, one using archives of data and one using experiments. Not a huge deal, but to some experimentalists it can be.

Talk:Northwestern University

2008-04-04T06:11:32Z

Spierce:

Bob Magee was The Managing Editor, and Thomas Lys is one of the 5 editors for JAE.

Were the people listed as "Editor of TAR" THE editor of TAR, or AN editor of TAR? Is there some name for the difference? -Jeff Hoopes

I updated it to show they were associate editors.

Also, according to the dictionary empirical means "derived from experiment and observation rather than theory." It is incorrect to refer to archival research as empirical and experimental research as not empirical research. Both methodologies are empirical in nature, one using archives of data and one using experiments. Not a huge deal, but to some experimentalists it can be.

Accounting Quotes

2008-03-15T22:03:41Z

Spierce:

*'''From the Autobiography of Ben Franklin:'''

In 1733 I sent one of my journeymen to Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was wanting. I furnish'd him with a press and letters, on an agreement of partnership, by which I was to receive one-third of the profits of the business, paying one-third of the expense. He was a man of learning, and honest but ignorant in matters of account; and, tho' he sometimes made me remittances, I could get no account from him, nor any satisfactory state of our partnership while he lived. On his decease, the business was continued by his widow, who, being born and bred in Holland, where, as I have been inform'd, the knowledge of accounts makes a part of female education, she not only sent me as clear a state as she could find of the transactions past, but continued to account with the greatest regularity and exactness every quarter afterwards, and managed the business with such success, that she not only brought up reputably a family of children, but, at the expiration of the term, was able to purchase of me the printing-house, and establish her son in it.
I mention this affair chiefly for the sake of recommending that branch of education for our young females, as likely to be of more use to them and their children, in case of widowhood, than either music or dancing, by preserving them from losses by imposition of crafty men, and enabling them to continue, perhaps, a profitable mercantile house, with establish'd correspondence, till a son is grown up fit to undertake and go on with it, to the lasting advantage and enriching of the family.

*'''From Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by J.W. von Goethe (If Goethe thinks accounting is cool, it has to be)'''

Away with it, to the fire with it!” cried Werner. “The invention does not deserve the smallest praise: that affair has plagued me enough already, and drawn upon yourself your father’s wrath. The verses may be altogether beautiful; but the meaning of them is fundamentally false. I still recollect your Commerce personified; a shrivelled, wretched-looking sibyl she was. I suppose you picked up the image of her from some miserable huckster’s shop. At that time, you had no true idea at all of trade; whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry! It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.

*'''Also from Ben Franklins Autobiography'''

In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia, respecting some negligence in rendering, and inexactitude of his accounts, took from him the commission and offered it to me. I accepted it readily, and found it of great advantage; for, tho' the salary was small, it facilitated the correspondence that improv'd my newspaper, increas'd the number demanded, as well as the advertisements to be inserted, so that it came to afford me a considerable income. My old competitor's newspaper declin'd proportionably, and I was satisfy'd without retaliating his refusal, while postmaster, to permit my papers being carried by the riders. Thus he suffer'd greatly from his neglect in due accounting; and I mention it as a lesson to those young men who may be employ'd in managing affairs for others, that they should always render accounts, and make remittances, with great clearness and punctuality. The character of observing such a conduct is the most powerful of all recommendations to new employments and increase of business.

*'''From Historian Alfred Crosby's book The Measure of Reality:'''

In the past seven centuries bookkeeping has done more to shape the perceptions of more bright minds than any single innovation in philosophy or science.

How much is a typical PhD School Stipend?

2008-03-08T01:59:24Z

Spierce: /* University of North Carolina */

Feel free to post the amounts of any stipends you know about here.

===[[University of Illinois]]===
* Offer of $30,000 in 2005

===[[Indiana University]]===
* Offers between $18,000 and $24,000 plus one year bonus of $4,000 in 2005 (varied by canidate)

===[[University of North Carolina]]===
* $20,000 for 4 years

===[[Northwestern University]]===
* Offer of $30,000 for full 5 years
* Health Insurance included

===[[University of Texas - Austin]]===
* Offer of $28,000 in 2005

How much is a typical PhD School Stipend?

2008-03-08T01:58:56Z

Spierce:

How much is a typical PhD School Stipend?

2008-03-08T01:57:30Z

Spierce: /* Northwestern University */

Feel free to post the amounts of any stipends you know about here.

===[[University of Illinois]]===
* Offer of $30,000 in 2005

===[[Indiana University]]===
* Offers between $18,000 and $24,000 plus one year bonus of $4,000 in 2005 (varied by canidate)

===[[Northwestern University]]===
* Offer of $30,000 for full 5 years
* Health Insurance included

===[[University of Texas - Austin]]===
* Offer of $28,000 in 2005

How much is a typical PhD School Stipend?

2008-03-08T01:56:57Z

Spierce:

Feel free to post the amounts of any stipends you know about here.

===[[University of Illinois]]===
* Offer of $30,000 in 2005

===[[Indiana University]]===
* Offers between $18,000 and $24,000 plus one year bonus of $4,000 in 2005 (varied by canidate)

===[[Northwestern University]]===
* Offer of $30,000 for full 5 years

===[[University of Texas - Austin]]===
* Offer of $28,000 in 2005