The AICPA announced the winners of the 2007 Elijah Watt Sells Awards, presented annually to the 10 candidates earning the highest cumulative scores on the four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination. In 2007 more than 76,000 candidates took the exam. The winners, in alphabetical order followed by their state board affiliation, and the school from which they graduated, are:
Steven J. Alden (Mass.), University of Massachusetts-Amherst
John G. Berger Jr. (Ill.), University of Notre Dame
Jason J. Brancazio (Calif.), Princeton University
Bryan E. Dean (Wash.), University of Washington
John Briscoe Escosa III (Ky.), Bellarmine University
Rapheal Joseph Hamilton (Kan.), Emporia State University and Syracuse University
Wenxin Li (N.H.), Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China
Barri Alexandra Litt (S.C.), University of Florida-Gainesville
Walker Fleming Saik (N.C.), Davidson College
Bryce A. Schonberger (Colo.), University of Colorado-Boulder
The award honors Elijah Watt Sells, one of the country’s first CPAs and a leader in advancing professional education.