CMA and CSCA Awards
CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) and CSCA® (Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis) award winners have attained excellence in their exam scores.
CMA MEDAL
January/February 2019 Testing Window (English)
Gold Medal: Reynald Espiritu Tomas, CMA
Silver Medal: Xingyuan Li, CMA, ACCA, CFA
Bronze Medal: Rongrong Liang, CMA
April 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Gold Medal: Ting Fang, CMA, CPA
Silver Medal: Zhiyang Yu, CMA
Bronze Medal: Songqing Yuan, CMA
May/June 2019 Testing Window (English)
Gold Medal: Parthasarathy S U, CMA
Silver Medal: Vianca Pearl Inot Amores, CMA, CPA
Bronze Medal: Lester Cortez
July 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Gold Medal: Fang Di, CMA
Silver Medal: Yang Wang, CMA, CPA
Silver Medal: Xinlong Wang, CMA
September/October 2019 Testing Window (English)
Gold Medal: Lorraine Grace Bumakil Calica, CMA
Gold Medal: Michael John Ma-Alat Cortez, CMA, CPA
Silver Medal: David A. Crisp, CMA
Bronze Medal: Jo-Anne Reinante Etin, CMA, CPA
November 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Gold Medal: Yun Shi, CMA
Silver Medal: Jing Jin, CMA
Bronze Medal: Fengmin Guo, CMA
Bronze Medal: Jianchao Yang, CMA
Bronze Medal: Qiufang Zhang, CMA
CMA CERTIFICATES OF DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE
January/February 2019 Testing Window (English)
Tatyana Lozovatskaya, CMA
Jedalyn Sab-It Macwes
April 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Lijuan Zhao, CMA, CPA
Liran Chen, CMA
May/June 2019 Testing Window (English)
Dongjing Yao
Yvette Kristel Aliwalas Jasa
July 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Yandong Zhen, ACCA
Chenxi Yang, CMA
Lingyun Wang, CMA
Yanjie Cao, CMA
September/October 2019 Testing Window (English)
Cianne Manahan Cruz
Arlette Daphne Horst
Chetan Agarwal
November 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Wen Qin, CMA
PRISCILLA S. PAYNE OUTSTANDING STUDENT PERFORMANCE AWARD
January/February 2019 Testing Window (English)
Ssu-Yu Chen
Zhilin Liu
April 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Yawei Song
May/June 2019 Testing Window (English)
Joshua Mortensen
July 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Yu Cao
Meng Wang
September/October 2019 Testing Window (English)
Sven De Been
November 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Zhaohui Li
STUDENT CERTIFICATE OF DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE
January/February 2019 Testing Window (English)
Jack Roman
Qi Chen
Kangjun Qiu
Zhijie Hu
April 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Ran Lei
Yanyan Feng
Jiaqi Lin
Rui Lin
May/June 2019 Testing Window (English)
Cleo Ariana Tangpuz Ventura, CPA
Shubham Singhal
Nikita Anil Jain
Miaolin Feng
July 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Gaixia Sun
Fang Wu, CPA
Fan Wu
Xiao Sun
September/October 2019 Testing Window (English)
Bill Julius Lagman Ocampo
Em Smith Cantago Balaba
Justine Louie Bautista Santiago
Cherica Joy Arellano Angeles
Neil Velez Ilagan
November 2019 Testing Window (Chinese)
Ting Wan
Yuan Yuan Cheng
Jinghui Li
Jie Wang
CSCA AWARDS
March 2019 Testing Window
Gold Award: Jonathan C. Baker, CMA, CSCA, CPA, CIA
Silver Award: Heinrich Dietmar Viktor Blumenthal, CMA, CSCA
Bronze Award: Andrei Iorgulescu, CMA, CSCA
September 2019 Testing Window
Gold Award: Michael Kraios, CMA, CSCA
Silver Award: Jonathan Fina, CMA, CSCA
Bronze Award: Aye Khine Mon, CMA, CSCA
Bronze Award: Craig James Oppenheim, CMA, CSCA
Global Award Winners
Global award winners have shown a strong commitment to IMA as well as the accounting and finance profession.
IMA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
James “Jimmie” C. Smith (awarded posthumously)
EXEMPLARY GLOBAL BOARD MEMBER AWARD
Derek Alan Fuzzell, CMA, CSCA, CPA
IMA CHAMPION AWARD
LeRoy E. Pennock, CMA
Roopa Venkatesh, CMA
David “Dave” L. Eichelberger, CPA
Sunil S. Deshmukh, CMA, CBM
EXEMPLARY YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD
Tanya Nicole Thirlwall
Gaby A. Lahoud, CMA, CSCA, PMP, CFA
Lybrand Awards
These awards recognize individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the profession through articles published in Strategic Finance and Management Accounting Quarterly from May 2019 through April 2020. Judging is based on the original submitted manuscript. Lybrand Medals and Certificates of Merit are awarded to IMA members, while Certificates of Appreciation are awarded to their nonmember coauthors.
LYBRAND GOLD MEDAL
Thomas G. Canace, Ph.D., CPA, and Paul Juras, Ph.D., CMA, CPA, “The CFO as Asset Manager: Moving Your Line of Sight with Data Analytics” (Strategic Finance, December 2019)
LYBRAND SILVER MEDAL
Jeremiah Bentley, Ph.D.; Margaret Shackell, Ph.D., CPA; and Pamela Trafford, CPA, CGMA; “Talk May be Cheap, but It Works: Supplement Quantitative Performance Measures with Narrative Reporting” (Strategic Finance, March 2020)
Douglas M. Boyle, DBA, CMA, CPA, “SEC Whistleblower Program Continues to Expand” (Strategic Finance, November 2019)
LYBRAND BRONZE MEDAL
Marcus J. Burke; Douglas M. Boyle, DBA, CMA, CPA; and Daniel P. Mahoney, Ph.D., CPA, CFE; “Goodwill Accounting: The Matter of Serial Non-Impairment” (Management Accounting Quarterly, Spring 2019)
CERTIFICATES OF MERIT
Shivam Arora, “Financial Reporting Implications of ASC 606 on Airline Financial Statements” (Management Accounting Quarterly, Fall 2019)
Douglas M. Boyle, DBA, CMA, CPA, “Developing Interpersonal Skills for Sustainable Career Success” (Strategic Finance, June 2019)
Mark Nickerson, CMA, CPA, and Linda Hall, Ph.D., CMA, CPA, CGMA, “Baby Boomers in Back Office Accounting: How Will Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMES) Replace Their Aging Bookkeepers?” (Strategic Finance, December 2019)
Margaret Shackell, Ph.D., CPA, “Using Lean Accounting to Support Lean Manufacturing Increases in Performance” (Strategic Finance, January 2020)
Charles E. Davis, Ph.D., CMA, CPA, “Ten Tips to Improve Your Presentation Slide Deck” (Strategic Finance, May 2019)
Frans Roozen, Ph.D., and Bert Steens, Ph.D., “Technology-Driven Developments that will Transform the Finance Function and the Competencies Management Accountants Need to Develop” (Management Accounting Quarterly, Fall 2019)
Dennis Applegate, CMA, CPA, CIA, CFE, “Assessing and Controlling Nonprofit Fraud Risk” (Strategic Finance, May 2019)
Sean Stein Smith, DBA, CMA, CPA, CGMA, CFE, “Cryptoasset Accounting and Reporting: Options and Implications for Practitioners” (Strategic Finance, November 2019)
Thomas D’Angelo, “Non-GAAP Reporting: Improvement but Selective Disclosure Persists” (Strategic Finance, April 2020)
CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION
Patrick E. O’Brien, CPA, “Developing Interpersonal Skills for Sustainable Career Success” (Strategic Finance, June 2019)
Conner Blake, “Talk May be Cheap, but It Works: Supplement Quantitative Performance Measures with Narrative Reporting” (Strategic Finance, March 2020)
Phebian Davis, Ph.D.; Lydia Schleifer, Ph.D.; and Sally K. Widener, Ph.D.; “Using Lean Accounting to Support Lean Manufacturing Increases in Performance” (Strategic Finance, January 2020)
Louis Spoor, “Technology-Driven Developments that will Transform the Finance Function and the Competencies Management Accountants Need to Develop” (Management Accounting Quarterly, Fall 2019)
John “Jack” Castonguay, Ph.D., CPA, “Cryptoasset Accounting and Reporting: Options and Implications for Practitioners” (Strategic Finance, November 2019)
Daniel J. Gaydon, “SEC Whistleblower Program Continues to Expand” (Strategic Finance, November 2019)
Ayaz Jaffer, CPA, “The CFO as Asset Manager: Moving Your Line of Sight with Data Analytics” (Strategic Finance, December 2019)
Student and Educator Awards
2020 STUDENT CASE COMPETITION WINNER
Texas State University
Amanda Craig
Caitlynn Grimes
Addison LePerre
Hannah Torres
Faculty Advisor:
Carolyn Conn, CPA
STUDENT CASE COMPETITION FINALISTS
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Marie Lingat
Dominic Ronca
Jackeline Villasenor
Jamie Wong
Faculty Advisor:
Daniel R. Siciliano, CMA, CFM, CPA
University of Rhode Island
Ethan Calandra
Bryan Ready
Joseph Staley
Faculty Advisor:
Ann Marie Sacco
Valdosta State University
Xavier Pineda Botey
Marjorie Dezorma
Taylor Grantham
Kyeong Hwan Lee
Theodore Worms
Faculty Advisors:
Sanjay Gupta
Ron Stunda
IMA MEMORIAL EDUCATION FUND SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Caleb Adams, Utah State University
Grace Gallagher, University of Scranton
Laura Harper, University of Findlay
Huy Hoang, University of Texas at Arlington
Abigail Huber, Culver-Stockton College
Jaslyn Masina, Utah State University
Katherine Medcalf, Missouri State University
Ryan Miggin, Dixie State University
Nathan Morgan, King’s College
James Sanchez, California State University, Fresno
Paul Wolf, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
STUART CAMERON AND MARGARET MCLEOD MEMORIAL FUND SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Ingrid Zarate Albarran, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE: OUTSTANDING STUDENT CHAPTERS
Athens State University
Culver-Stockton College
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
University of Scranton
Utah State University
IMA CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE
GOLD
California State University, Fresno
Grand Canyon University
Stark State College
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Jordan
SILVER
Ashland University
Missouri State University
Valdosta State University
STUDENT MANUSCRIPT WINNER
Kiara Sims, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Diversifying Career Preparation”
CENTURY STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
Ryan Miggin, Dixie State University
CLARK JOHNSON ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Stark State College
URSEL K. ALBERS ACADEMIC MENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD
Hadeel Nassar, CMA, CPA, CIA,
University of Sharjah
IMA FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Kimberly Swanson Church, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
LEE BRUMMET AWARDRoopa Venkatesh, Ph.D., CMA, University of Nebraska Omaha
August 2020
