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Florida State University Accounting Department Footnote, Spring 1996-Spring 1997

 

Summary

Creator:
Florida State University. College of Business. Accounting Department
Extent:
1.00 folders
2 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Florida State University Accounting Department Footnote, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2007-042

Background

Scope and content:

The Florida State University (FSU) Accounting Department Footnote is a newsletter published by the FSU Accounting Department. First published in Spring 1996, its primary purpose is to inform the department's alumni and other supporters of its accounting programs. In addition, Footnote includes notices of awards and recognitions; messages from the College of Business Dean; comparative salary information for accounting majors and employers; announcements of curriculum changes, faculty research and publications; and faculty, staff, and student news.

Biographical / historical:

In 1916, the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) established a two-year program in business education within the College of Arts and Sciences. At that time, the curriculum comprised bookkeeping, introductory commerce subjects, and secretarial science. According to A Golden Moment: Our Fiftieth Anniversary, published by the FSU College of Business (2001), in 1927, Mary Luella Richey, Florida's first female certified public accountant, established FSCW's four-year program in accounting. It was the only such program in a women's college in the United States. Richey, who came to FSCW in 1916 to teach a two-year program in commerce-related subjects, was fascinated with accounting and became a pioneer in business education. The initial program in accounting, which she developed in the 1920s, was the precursor to the accounting curriculum in the FSU School of Business in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2007, according to the Public Accounting Report, an independent newsletter of the accounting profession, FSU's accounting program was ranked within the top 25 in the nation.

Acquisition information:
Cannot be determined
Processing information:

Processed by Burt Altman in November 2007.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

To request permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from the archives, please contact Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Researchers must obtain separate permission from the copyright holders of material held within University Archives collections for which the institution does not hold copyright.

Preferred citation:

Florida State University Accounting Department Footnote, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2007-042

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA