All 19 of the Latest Watt Sells Award Winners Prepared with Becker
All 19 of the latest Watt Sells Award winners prepared with Becker Professional Education! The awards, named after CPA pioneer Elijah Watt Sells, are presented to the ten CPA candidates who passed each of the four sections of the CPA Exam on the first attempt and who achieved the highest cumulative scores for all four sections of the exam within a calendar year. In 2010 the number of award winners was unique because multiple candidates received identical cumulative scores, resulting in a tie, and therefore increasing the total number of winners to 19.
Becker Professional Education congratulates these outstanding students on their accomplishment and their universities and professors for their leadership and guidance.
| Award Winner | University | Employer |
| Seth D. Albin |
Fort Hays State University | Exacta Aerospace, Inc. |
| Bryan T. Avery | Grand Valley State University | Bader Martin |
| Michael Berryman |
University of Maryland | Ernst & Young |
| Kristen Adele Brands | Dordt College | Ernst & Young |
| Michael Robert Dean | University of Washington | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Jeffrey D. Downs |
University of Connecticut | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Shane C. Drake | Florida Gulf Coast University | Wiltshire, Whitley, Richardson and English |
| Jaymie A. Farr |
Brigham Young University | Deloitte |
| Trevor Steven Goss | University of Arizona | Ernst & Young |
| Eric Emil Hartel |
Liberty University / Lakeland College | CCH Small Firm Services |
| William Thomas Jachym | University of Connecticut | McGladrey and Pullen |
| David E. Johnson |
University of Richmond / Loyola University / DePaul University | KPMG |
| Emily Kiser | University of Texas at Austin | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Zhi P. Liu |
Michigan State University | Plante Moran |
| Jenna K. Mehalic | University of Illinois | State Farm Insurance |
| Heather Brilyn Saleeby |
University of Georgia | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Christopher Joseph Schoell | Lehigh University | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Christopher David Tkach |
Saint Louis University | RubinBrown |
| Paul Zimbardo | Lehigh University | Grant Thornton |
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