2006 Watt Sells Award winners achieve success with Becker CPA Review
For the second year in a row, 7 of the 10 Elijah Watt Sells Award recipients, the highest scoring students for the multi-part CPA Exam administered by The AICPA, prepared for the test with classes and materials from Becker CPA Review.
The Elijah Watt Sells Award, created in 1923 to honor CPA pioneer Elijah Watt Sells, is presented to the ten CPA candidates who passed each of the four sections of the Uniform CPA Exam on the first attempt and who achieved the highest cumulative scores on each of the four sections of the test within a calendar year.
We congratulate the following Becker students, their former universities, and their current employers.
| Award Winner | University | Employer |
| Irene Altman | UC-Santa Barbara | KPMG |
| Jeffrey P. Barrows | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Jonathan Patrick Booth | Louisiana State University | KPMG |
| Robert W. Hybiak | University of Denver | Deloitte |
| Keith A. Piwko | Michigan State University | Plante & Moran |
| Kurt B. Piwko | Michigan State University | Plante & Moran |
| Wendee Mariko Shinsato | Hawaii Pacific University | Defense Contract Audit Agency |
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