Oct 19, 2009
 

Dan Meyer named Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by USD Beacom School of Business

VERMILLION, S.D. -- The University of South Dakota Beacom School of Business honored Dan Meyer as its Outstanding Alumnus of the Year during its Board of Governors annual awards luncheon recently.
 
Meyer, a certified public accountant and a certified management accountant, received his B.S. from USD in 1983 and an M.S. in accounting from the University of Kansas in 1988. A tax partner at Ernst & Young for a decade, Meyer has operated from several different offices while working for Ernst & Young, including Detroit, Mich., Cleveland, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo., and Minneapolis, Minn.  His current responsibilities at E&Y are as the markets leader for the Federal Tax Consulting and Compliance group in the North Central Sub-Area.  Additionally, he leads the tax accounting methods group for the region. 

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Meyer worked at a number of different public accounting firms, including McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, and Arthur Andersen.  Additionally, he spent close to four years in the financial services industry in northwest Iowa and Kansas City, Mo. A strong advocate of the Beacom School of Business and the accounting department at USD, Meyer is a past board member of the Ronald McDonald house and is currently active with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  He presently resides in Northville, Mich. with his wife and two daughters.

About the Beacom School of Business

The University of South Dakota School of Business, established in 1927, offers the only fully accredited business program in South Dakota. The U has been continuously accredited by the AACSB International–The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) since 1949.AACSB International accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in management education. Only eight percent of business schools worldwide have earned this prestigious designation. Visit www.aacsb.edu to learn more about this prestigious designation. To learn more about the Beacom School of Business, visit www.usd.edu/business.
 
About The University of South Dakota
 
Founded in 1862, The University of South Dakota is designated as the only public liberal arts university in the state and is home to a comprehensive College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, the state's only School of Law, School of Medicine, the accredited Beacom School of Business and the College of Fine Arts. It has an enrollment of more than 9,600 students taught by 400 faculty members. More information is available at www.usd.edu/press/news.

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The University of South Dakota
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