North Carolina CPAs Set up Campbell Scholarship

     The Sandhills Chapter of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (NCACPA) has established a direct aid scholarship to benefit accounting majors at Campbell University. NCACPA board member Denise R. Smith, chief finance officer at Good Hope Hospital, Inc., was on campus Tuesday to present a check in the amount of $1,000 to Campbell University’s Lundy-Fetterman School of Business.
     “We want to promote and encourage students in the field of accounting to complete their education and practice in the Sandhills region of North Carolina,” Smith said. “This is about CPAs and the state association getting involved with our students and helping to bring them along to professional life.”
     The scholarship is to be distributed for the 2005-2006 academic year with stipulations that the funds be distributed as either one $1,000 scholarship or two $500 scholarships, that the scholarship be granted on the basis of financial need to eligible students in their last two years of study as accounting majors, and that students receiving the scholarship certify in writing they intend to remain in the Sandhills and practice accounting after graduation.
     Those receiving the scholarship will also be provided a free,one-year student membership in the NCACPA and free admission to one education session sponsored by the chapter. The Sandhills Chapter of NCACPA has a membership of over 400 people and includes the counties of Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson and Scotland.

 

Bulletin 0088-4/06/05