Recent M.Acc. Graduate Earns Elijah Watt Sells Award for Top Scores on CPA Exam

William Martens, a 2019 U of A Master of Accounting graduate, has recently been awarded the Elijah Watt Sells Award, which requires the candidate to receive a cumulative average score above 95.5 across all four sections of the CPA exam and pass each one on their first try. Of the nearly 75,000 candidates in the United States in 2020, only 89 have earned this distinction. 

Martens is currently a second-year associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the Northwest Arkansas office.

Contacts

JaLynn Thomas, MPACC director, assistant chair
William T. Dillard Department of Accounting
479-575-4051, jthomas@walton.uark.edu

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