{"id":39898,"date":"2015-10-28T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=39898"},"modified":"2021-06-29T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:32:46","slug":"cpa-firm-establishes-endowed-scholarship-at-the-shidler-college-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/28\/cpa-firm-establishes-endowed-scholarship-at-the-shidler-college-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"CPA<\/abbr> firm establishes endowed scholarship at the Shidler College of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Left to right: Vance Roley, dean, Shidler College of Business; Lawrence M. Chew; Wesley B. Hiyane; Alton Miyashiro; Brian Isobe; Blake S. Isobe; Michael I. Tanaka; Hamid Pourjalali; director, School of Accountancy; and Unyong Nakata, senior director of development, UH<\/abbr> Foundation \u2013 Shidler College of Business. Missing from photo: Dwayne S. Takeno and Chad Funasaki.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Shidler College of Business<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa has received a gift to create an endowed scholarship from N&K CPA<\/abbr>s, Inc.<\/a> The endowed scholarship will provide tuition assistance to the best and brightest accounting students at the college in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

N&K has selected the Shidler College of Business’ accounting program<\/a> as the recipient of its endowment to assist deserving accounting students in preparing for a career in public accounting. Many of the leaders and team members of N&K are proud graduates of UH<\/abbr> Mānoa’s accounting program and the firm continues to recruit from the university.<\/p>\n

“We believe this gift is a good way to give back to the university and assist young students who aspire to become a CPA<\/abbr> someday,” said Alton K. Miyashiro, N&K managing principal.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful to N&K for investing in the best and brightest accounting students,” said Vance Roley<\/strong>, dean of the Shidler College of Business. “N&K has been a longstanding partner of the college via internships, hiring our graduates, and student mentoring. It is wonderful to now have them as part of our scholarship program in perpetuity.”<\/p>\n

The N&K CPA<\/abbr>s Endowed Scholarship joins a scholarship program that is the largest in the entire UH<\/abbr> System. It provides, on average, $1 million in tuition assistance to deserving Shidler College of Business students each academic year. This enables students to graduate on time, without debt and with internship and study abroad experiences.<\/p>\n

In 1973, Sadao Nishihama and Glenn Kishida formed a partnership and, with a staff of nine, opened their office at 1001 Bishop Street to provide accounting and tax services.<\/p>\n

Since its humble beginnings, N&K has grown to a firm of eight principals and over 60 personnel to become one of the largest local CPA<\/abbr> firms in the state. Today N&K is a full-service CPA<\/abbr> firm providing attest, tax and consulting services to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>-based businesses with a local approach to service delivery along with global connections and resources.<\/p>\n

—A Shidler College of Business story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Shidler College of Business receives gift to create an endowed scholarship from N&K CPA<\/abbr>s, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[753,146,319,9],"class_list":["post-39898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-accounting","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t