The Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting's annual Maynooth University Accountancy Showcase took place on Monday October 8th 2018 in the Iontas Building, Maynooth University. All the leading professional accounting firms including PWC, E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Mazars, BDO, RBK, Crowe, IFAC , EisnerAmper and Smith & Williamson attended as well as Kerry, The Office of the Auditor & Comptroller General, Revenue, Central Bank, CIMA, Chartered Accountants Ireland and IFS Statestreet.
As usual, the accounting academic prizes were presented by representatives of the awarding firms in a ceremony at the event. There are now 15 prizes presented each year to acccounting students :
In first year, the KPMG 1st year Accounting & Finance prize was presented to Joe Sheerin.
The Leinster Society, Chartered Accountants Ireland, 1st year Law & Accounting prize was presented to Daniel Curley .The RBK 1st year Accounting through ARTS prize was presented to Linda Bolger while the BDO 1st year Business & Accounting prize was presented to Diarmid Brown.
In 2nd year there were five prizes awarded: The IFAC prize for top 2nd year accounting student in Business & Accounting was won by Patrick Robilliard while Megan Diamond was awarded an impressive four prizes in the 2nd year of her degree - the EY prize for top accounting student on the BA A&F, the Grant Thornton Prize for taxation, the CIMA prize for top management accounting student and the Mazars prize for financial accounting.
There were two prizes in 3rd year. Lewis Wood won the PWC prize for the top accounting student on the BA A&F while Joanie Conroy was presented with the Leinster Society, Chartered Accountant's prize for Ethics.
In addition a number of prizes were presented at postgraduate level:
Kerrie Dreelan was presented with both the KPMG prize for 1st place on the MA in Accounting and the IFS prize for best thesis on the MA in Accounting while David Moylan won the PWC prize for first place in financial accounting on the MA in Accounting. Riza Ul Haq Mohammed won the Deloitte prize for the top student in year 1 of the two year MA in Accounting.
More photos from the event are available at Accountancy Showcase 2018