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They came, they collaborated, they crunched the numbers and were rewarded for their efforts in a grueling regional business competition sponsored by Goodman & Company, a major Virginia accounting business.<\/p>\nThey came, they collaborated, they crunched the numbers and were rewarded for their efforts in a grueling regional business competition sponsored by Goodman & Company, a major Virginia accounting business.<\/p>\n
A team of Eastern Mennonite University senior accounting majors tied for fourth place in the final round of competition with a team from the University of Virginia in the ninth annual Goodman & Company Accounting Challenge in the fall of 2010.<\/p>\n
The team \u2013 consisting of Brittany S. Snyder<\/strong>, Raphine, Va.; Heidi A. Boese<\/strong>, Hesston, Kan.; Eric B. Yoder<\/strong>, Narvon, Pa.; and Jason D. Ropp<\/strong>, Iowa City, Iowa \u2013 was one of 33 teams from colleges and universities from Virginia and Maryland who took a six-hour business exam the second week of October.<\/p>\n The EMU team was one of only five to advance to the final round of the competition held Nov. 5 in Richmond, Va. Here, the EMU students took another intensive, six-hour exam of practical business questions.<\/p>\n For finishing tied for fourth place, the team was awarded $750 for the EMU business and economics department, and each student received $250 from Goodman & Company. Another team from U.Va. finished first in the contest, followed by teams from William & Mary and James Madison University.<\/p>\n