MIU Blogs
At the Lean Accounting Summit on August 25-26, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Andrew Bargerstock, head of the MIU Accounting department, will facilitate a 60-minute breakout session on the topic “Are We Leaning Away from Standard Costing?”
Dr. Bargerstock reflects on speaking at this event by referring to recent conversations with the CEO of, consulting firm, Lean Frontiers. “Jim Huntzinger [the Founder of the Lean Summit] has been intrigued by MIU’s research in lean accounting practices for manufacturing companies,” says Bargerstock. “We conducted the first empirical study that...
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Nahshon Yisrael grew up in the South Side of Chicago. He and his twin sister Naamee heard about MIU from a cousin, and the siblings came to a Visitors Weekend in 2012. Naamee wanted to enroll at MIU, and Nahshon, who is very close to his sister, followed.
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Seven MBA Accounting students from MIU recently passed the XBRL Certification exam offered by XBRL International. In March 2016, this credential was enhanced by a course in SEC Reporting with XBRL, where students got hands-on experience with conversion software that transforms financial statements and reports to XBRL, which is now required by the US Security and Exchange Commission. Business faculty member Naveed Abbasi guided the class in the SEC Reporting course.
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Over the past two years Dr. Andrew Bargerstock, Director of Maharishi International University’s MBA Program, has been working with Phil Town, a recognized hedge fund manager and author of the NY Times best seller Rule #1 Investing. Town’s company, Rule 1 Investing (ruleoneinvesting.com), is based south of Atlanta in Moreland, GA. The Rule 1 model portfolio was ranked #1 in 2014 by the American Association for Individual Investors (aaii.com) when it produced a 50% rate of return. In 2013, it produced a 47% rate of return.
Dr. Bargerstock has known...
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This article will inform you about the organizing power contained in the financial metrics that I teach in my accounting and decision-making courses at Maharishi International University (Fairfield, Iowa, USA) and in the Student Investment Club where I act as the faculty adviser.
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Although she was attending college in Southern California, Andrea Zapata was looking for a school with a commitment to sustainability and a focus on personal growth.
One night, her mother had a dream which led them to discover MIU. Two weeks later, Andrea was attending a Visitors Weekend.
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The Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association held its annual awards reception on January 28th. This year’s event was especially significant, as 2016 marked the non profit’s 50th anniversary. While the FEA support all types of entrepreneurship, this year they decided to pay a special tribute to the intersection between art and entrepreneurship in Fairfield.
Tim Hawthorne, the founder of Hawthorne Direct, was inducted into the Fairfield Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Tim is a long-term meditator and teacher of Transcendental Meditation. Over its 30 year span, his company has served many businesses...
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MIU students are well known for thinking outside of the box. Want to see this thinking in action? Watch College of Business top student (2015) Eva Saint Denis’ speech on her hemp paper company, “Bright Future: Sustainable Essentials.”
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As part one of our November-December capstone project for Organizational Change For Sustainability, students were put into teams and assigned projects to work on for the month. Our team worked with city council change agent Michael Halley to find out how to improve sidewalks in dangerous areas in Fairfield.
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Organizational Change for Sustainability class is the part of Sustainable MBA capstone project classes, and is followed by Sustainable Community Development class. Both classes are grounded in the notion of planned experiences that are related to work situations. This supports the goal of Sustainable MBA program to create authentic learning opportunities through a curriculum that matters.
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