accountants and finance scholarships

Scholarships
IMA sponsors a variety of scholarship programs to help students offset the high cost of education. These include the IMA Memorial Education Fund and Stuart Cameron and Margaret McLeod Memorial Scholarships, and the Rolf S. Jaehnigen Family Scholarship. In addition, IMAҀs Foundation for Applied Research offers a research grant program for doctoral students who are pursuing research in the area of management accounting.

Student Chapter Awards and Competitions
Student chapters are a vital part of the IMA community. Each year the students and their chapters vie for various awards including the National Student Case Competition, Awards of Excellence, Outstanding Student Chapter, Student Manuscript Award and the Clark Johnson Achievement Award.For information on starting a IMA Student Chapter on your campus, click here for the latest version of the Student Chapter Manual.

National Student Case Competition
Teams of students respond to a published case by preparing and submitting a videotaped presentation to judges selected from IMA members. The 2010 finals competition will be held at IMA's Annual Conference and Exposition in Baltimore, MD on June 5-9, 2010. This very exciting competition presents students with real life challenges and the opportunity to:

analyze a case
develop a solution
present it to an audience
receive recognition for their efforts
The case study is published in the August 2009 issue of Strategic Finance.
Competition Rules and Regulations
Case Study
2009 Winning Entry

Award of Excellence and Outstanding Student Chapter
These programs aim to engage all student chapters to promote the IMAҀs mission and vision statements as well as to provide a broad spectrum of activities/services to its student members. Click here for complete rules and an application. Click here for a summary of the requirements.

Student Manuscript Award
This program provides any student member with an opportunity to share his/her IMA student membership experiences via articles considered for publication in Strategic Finance. Submissions must be postmarked by March 15 for credit in current yearҀs competition. Click here for complete rules and an application. Please click here to view the winning article from the 2009 Student Manuscript Competition.

Clark Johnson Achievement Award
This award is presented each year at IMA's Annual Conference and Exposition to an active IMA student chapter that demonstrates innovative achievement in meeting the needs of IMA regular and student members. Click here for complete rules and an application. Click here to see a video clip of the 2009 winning schoolҀs entry.
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