BKR Awards Scholarships to Accounting Students

The global accounting association BKR International, recently presented its annual scholarship awards to honor accounting students around the world for their exemplary academic achievements in the accounting profession.

This distinctive program, unique among global accounting associations, awards $3,000 per student toward the cost of obtaining a professional accounting credential in their country. Since its inception in 2012, the scholarship program has awarded close to $70,000 to 25 students in 13 countries.

Scholarship recipients are nominated by BKR member firms in each of three designated regions and are then approved by the Worldwide Board.

This year’s scholarship winners are:

BKR Asia/Pacific Winner: Liew Jia Min Jasmine, nominated by RT LLP (Singapore)

BKR Europe/Middle East/Africa Winner: Amanda Couzi, nominated by Abou Nasr & Associates (Beirut, Lebanon & Erbil, Iraq)

BKR Americas Winner: Carly Scholl, nominated by DMLO (Louisville, Kentucky)

“We went through an exhaustive application process, and we found a young lady who we thought exemplified everything we look for in a person we would like to hire eventually,” said Christopher Ward, president with DMLO. Ward presented the scholarship to Carly Scholl at the BKR Americas Regional Meeting held in June in Louisville. A video of the Americas Region scholarship presentation can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl6nF31-4a0

“We are really proud of our ability to give thousands of dollars in scholarships to aspiring accounting students around the world,” said Karen Brenneman, CPA, MT, the new BKR Americas Region chair and the managing partner at member firm Hall, Kistler & Company, LLP in Ohio. “It demonstrates how BKR International gives back in real ways to the industry.”

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