Arkansas Society of CPAs Student Education Fund Awards Scholarships
Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants Student Education Fund recently awarded a total of $55,500 in scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year. The scholarships were awarded to forty accounting students attending eleven different Arkansas colleges and universities, who intend to sit for the CPA Exam. The annual meeting for scholarship selection was held in February 2019.
The Student Education Fund scholarship program rewards academic excellence and encourages promising accounting students to pursue careers as CPAs. The students’ college or university accounting department chairs submitted the students’ applications for consideration of the scholarships. Selections were made by the Student Education Fund Board.
Since its’ first scholarship program in 2005, the Student Education Fund has awarded approximately $548,800 in scholarships to accounting students. The Student Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, and contributions are tax deductible.