The annual Maynooth University Accountancy Showcase took place on Tuesday October 4th 2016 in the Iontas Building, Maynooth University. All the leading professional accounting firms including PWC, E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Mazars, BDO, RBK, Crowe Horwath, RSM Ireland and Smith & Williamson attended as well as Hedgeserv, Kerry, Pfizer 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 13 prizes presented each year to acccounting students :
In first year, the KPMG 1st year Accounting & Finance prize was presented to Cara Neary. In addition there were three new prizes awarded for the first time this year:
The Leinster Society, Chartered Accountants Ireland, 1st year Law & Accounting prize was presented to Sarah Comiskey.The RBK 1st year Accounting through ARTS prize was presented to Ailbhe Travers while the BDO 1st year Business & Accounting prize was presented to Sarah Comiskey.
In 2nd year there were also four prizes awarded: The CIMA prize for top management accounting student was presented to YuYing Li, Calum Coffey was awarded both the EY prize for top accounting student on the BA A&F and the inaugural Grant Thornton Prize for taxation while the Mazars prize for financial accounting was presented to David Moylan.
There were two prizes in 3rd year. Seán Brady won both the PWC prize for the top accounting student on the BA A&F and the Leinster Society, Chartered Accountant's prize for Ethics.
In addition a number of prizes were presented at postgraduate level:
Michelle Dunne was presented with the KPMG prize for 1st place on the MA in Accounting. Bokan Yang won the IFS prize for best thesis on the MA in Accounting while Clare Droney was presented with the Deloitte prize for the top student on the Higher Diploma in Professional Accounting .
Well done to all our students who received prizes on the day.