Description of Activities (Professional,
Service, Non-BAP)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
All chapters, regardless of achievement level,
must report at least six professional activities during the
year that meet the following requirements:
Chapters seeking to achieve
The time for a professional activity consists of
the professional part of the presentation—the speaker and questions and answers
related to the presentation. A chapter business meeting (orientation,
officer elections) does not count as a professional meeting unless there is a
professional program, in which case only the professional portion of the
program receives credit.
Examples of Professional Activities
include, but are not limited, to the following:
Credit is not given for candidate meetings,
orientation meetings, organizational meetings, chapter business/planning
meetings, initiation and similar activities that provide no professional
component.
Examples of Professional Meeting
Topics/Activities
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Improving communication skills |
Business practice in (name of country) |
E-commerce |
Developing leadership skills |
Time management |
Ethics |
Stress management |
IFRS |
The paperless audit |
Marketing business services |
Professional liability |
Internet for financial information research |
Comparing different career paths |
Management of accounting / consulting practice |
Analyzing financial statements |
Derivatives and other financial instruments |
Advantages of graduate education |
Use of computer software |
Fraud detection |
Deregulation |
New tax law |
Investments |
Implementing new systems |
Off balance sheet risk |
Going public (IPOs) |
Internships |
Etiquette |
Resumes |
Dress for success |
Corporate finance |
Systems development |
Creating a web page |
Forensic accounting |
Not-for-profit accounting |
Interviewing skills |
Golf tournament with professionals (social
activity) |
Softball game with professionals (social
activity) |
Legislative changes impacting business |
All student presentations, including those made at
annual and regional meetings, as well as at chapter meetings, will earn
professional hours for the length of the session. In addition, credit for
two times the length of the presentation will be granted to the individual
presenter for professional development time.
A chapter may report up to two social activities
with professionals per year as professional activities. The activity time
is limited to 1 hour (50 minutes) per individual per activity. Chapter
socials involving only chapter members/candidates are not eligible for
credit.
All chapters, regardless of achievement level,
must report one service activity during the year that meets
the following requirements:
Chapters seeking
To be reported as a service activity sponsored by
Beta Alpha Psi, the event either (1) must be organized and carried out by the
Beta Alpha Psi chapter or (2) must involve participation by the members of the
Beta Alpha Psi chapter as a group (in which case the chapter has agreed to
participate as a chapter and has promoted participation in the event).
Any money received from a service activity must be donated to a charitable
organization or used for a charitable cause. Activities for which members
receive course credit are not considered service activities.
Since part of the mission of Beta Alpha Psi is to
foster enthusiasm for service, chapters are encouraged to participate in campus
and community service activities. The service category is intended to be
flexible and adaptable to the needs and desires of individual chapters.
Service is the giving of one’s time, energy and
talents to benefit either the campus or local community. Community
service involves making a difference to these entities through the actions of
caring for others by the chapter and/or its members and includes direct service
or indirect service. Direct service means becoming actively involved with
a community group or organization (either on or off campus). Indirect
service means providing help or resources through a “round-about” approach and
includes preparation time for charitable events, raising funds for charity, or
assisting with “back office” functions such as accounting or computer
systems. In evaluating community service, we suggest that the chapter
consider the following questions.
How does this activity benefit the
member/candidate?
How does this activity benefit the organization/individual(s) being assisted?
Why are we (am I) doing this?
Activities that do not constitute
community service include assisting friends or family or volunteering to
participate in events where the underlying purpose is recruitment. Any
money received from a service activity must be donated to a charitable
organization or used for a charitable cause. Activities for which members
receive course credit are not considered service activities.
Examples of Service Activities
Habitat for Humanity |
Recordings for the Blind |
Big Brothers/Big Sisters |
Junior Achievement |
Fund raising projects for charity |
University Telethons |
Food drives |
Adopt-a-highway, Adopt-a-trail, Adopt-a-family |
Service activities sponsored by religious
organization |
Blood drives |
Walk-a-thons, bowl-a-thons, etc |
Coaching youth teams |
Assisting the Career Placement Office with a
Career Fair |
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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance – Training time
should be counted as professional hours. Tax preparation time should be
counted as service hours. At the end of the VITA program, you should download
the VITA Reporting Form and submit per the instructions on
the form. |
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Proctoring exams for department (for example,
proctoring a common final at the end of the semester, not proctoring an exam
for an individual professor) |
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Host Annual Meeting, Community Service Day,
Regional Meeting or Leadership Conference – Hours will be determined by
the Director of Chapter Activities and Meeting Chair, Director-at-Large
and/or sponsoring University |
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Tutoring sessions - group, e-mail, or one on one
- without monetary compensation. Tutoring sessions count if the sessions were
scheduled and are documented, regardless of whether anyone attends.
Please report this activity as a single service activity on the mid-year
and/or end-of-year workbook |
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Consultation with campus or off-campus
organizations about tax matters, bookkeeping, information systems, or other
work of a technical nature |
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Mentoring of other chapters (a chapter must
receive pre-approval of its Director-at-Large) |
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Create/update chapter web page (to a maximum of
10 hours for creating and 3 hours for updating) |
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Officers and committee chairs for a chapter may
receive up to 100 hours for their time providing service to the chapter. A
maximum of 10 hours each may be reported for up to 10 officers and committee
chairs. Please report this at the end of each semester or at the end of the
year on a single report. The limit of 10 is for the year, not by semester or
quarter. |
NON-BETA ALPHA PSI ACTIVITIES
At the individual level, chapters may report a
maximum of five hours per year (per student) of professional activities and a
maximum of five hours per year (per student) of service activities that are not
sponsored by Beta Alpha Psi. These hours should be reported as a single
professional or service activity on the mid-year and/or end-of-year
workbook. Chapters must retain detailed information regarding the non-Beta
Alpha Psi activities until October 1 of the following year.
(formerly known as National/Regional Activities)
Chapters should update the “Report
Activity>Reaching Out Activities” section on the reporting intranet by
December 15 and June 1. Even though more than one chapter member may
attend an event, such as a Regional Meeting, only one credit is received for
the Reaching Out activity.
Reaching Out activities include the following:
Sponsored by Executive Office
Sponsored by Chapter