Election 2012 — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Election 2012

Name: Samantha Chavez
Major: Accounting/Finance
Hometown: Rhinelander, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Independent research

Name: Maxwell Grothman
Major: Accounting
Hometown: Green Bay, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Independent research

Name: Justin Kirkpatrick
Major: International Political Economy
Hometown: Elkhorn, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Independent research

Name: Adam Marshall
Major: International Political Economy
Hometown: Oshkosh, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Independent research

Abstract

The assignment: Run an election campaign for the next President of the United States of America. Our organization had seen its clients struggling with the financial issues faced by many Americans and we believe that our years of experience in management accounting gave us the big picture perspective needed to provide practical solutions to these issues. Like in every election, our team had to develop our candidate’s proposed solutions to address current issues as part of the candidate selection process.

As part of the nationwide competition sponsored by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), we took this assignment and submitted an executive summary of our plan to solve social security and the national deficit. In only Carthage’s second year taking part in the competition, we made our way to the semifinals where we stood with the Top 16 teams out of almost 140. At this level, we submitted a video that was up for public votes. While we did not make the top 3 teams, we did receive over 1000 votes on our video from the Carthage Community.

Poster file