Zarb’s Beta Alpha Psi Wins Gold Challenge

The Zarb School of Business announced that the Delta Pi Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi won the KPMG Gold Challenge Competition at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Zarb Beta Alpha Psi chapter is a student organization of the Department of Accounting, Taxation and Legal Studies.

Beta Alpha Psi is an honorary organization for Financial Information students and professionals. The primary objective of Beta Alpha Psi is to encourage and give recognition to scholastic and professional excellence in the business information field.

Beta Alpha Psi was founded in 1919. Today, there are 300 chapters on college and university campuses nationwide with over 300,000 initiated members since its inception.Only 15 chapters are selected to win this prestigious award from more than 300 Beta Alpha Psi international chapters.

Six years ago, KPMG and Beta Alpha Psi created the “Gold Chapter” designation.  Chapters must complete a very rigorous application, which is the culmination of two years’ worth of outstanding programming and activities.

This past May, under the leadership of the group’s President Abdulla Tokhie, the following Beta Alpha members and officers completed this rigorous application: Brandon Amon, Daniela Bodden, Richard Jannotti, Robert Rubenfeld, and Xiaorui Zhang.

Zarb’s Beta Alfa Psi has recognized the contributions of the most recent executive board and faculty advisor, whose imaginative and innovative programming and activities made it possible to win the award. Those contributors are President Tracy Robertson, Vice Presidents Matthew Barry and Robert Serikstad, Executive Secretary Kerry Murphy, reporting Secretary Daniel Lewitt, Treasurer Robert Rubenfeld and Dr. Daniel Tinkelman who served as the faculty advisor.

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