Archives: Accounting, Business Administration, and Economics

A major in accounting gave Greg Sisco ’13 more than just training in standard accounting practices.“Accounting is a broad field, and at Franciscan I also got the tools and knowledge to understand business and economic principles,” he notes. Greg says his professors, “the cream of the crop,” were confident, caring, and willing to go the extra mile to make sure students understood the coursework.As a student, Greg gained practical experience by volunteering six hours a week during a tax season to help local lower-income residents complete their tax returns. This gave him confidence in explaining accounting principles in layman’s terms, a skill that he relies on today.

“The business world is no longer local,” says David Kirk ’11. He should know: he’s a financial analyst for Cisco, a company that designs networking systems to connect the global world.

United States Air Force Captain Anne Delmare ’08 didn’t arrive as a student on Franciscan’s campus until her sophomore year. That’s because she spent her freshman year taking classes 4,000 miles away.“I knew I wanted to travel and learn a new language,” says Anne, so after high school, she headed to the University of Navarra in northern Spain. There, she studied Spanish language and culture, and earned credits toward the undergraduate Spanish major she would later complete at Franciscan University.Anne also majored in business, following in the footsteps of her enterprising father and other relatives, owners of a successful family winery in Huntly, Virginia.

Joe Norton ’13 belongs to a family of Franciscan University alums. He’s one of eight to attend, and one of six who have already graduated. He’s one of four who have graduated with a computer information science major. Joe minored in business management. It’s a combination that he describes as essential given his career as a software engineer with the social jukebox and music service Radio in San Francisco.“I use cutting-edge technologies on a small backend team to serve data for millions of customers, primarily through writing code for our distributed backend. Duties include payments processing, new feature development, user notifications, data storage retrieval, security, and more,” says Joe.