In class, he sets up a Jeopardy board to help us prepare for tests. If you give the right answer, he flings you a candy bar. Elder is pleased to be in a position where he can promote auditing as a profession. In today's economy, graduates can go right into consulting, which generates more revenues for big firms. Yet auditing is still an excellent career path.
Students sometimes think it's a lot of detail and checking things over.
Auditing is really about evaluating information, which is a skill everyone needs in business. Elder personally demonstrates the auditor's versatility in Problems of Closely Held Business, a course he offers in the Program in Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. It's very interdisciplinary and takes a lot of preparation. But these are the issues I encountered firsthand in my years in the business world. Elder also stretches the students' sense of business reality in his role as faculty advisor to the SU Business Club, which launched the School of Management food cart venture two years ago.