NFJPIA National Officers

Janine Nicole Orcena President

Adrianne B. Harve VP Acad
Rezerind Prado VP Non-Acad
Silver Kim B. Ibale VP Membership
Paul Angelo G. Gonzaga VP Finance
Christine Abigail G. Piaoan VP ComMindanao
Gizelle C. Almeda VP Media and
Documentation
Jensie Ardith D. Esponilla VP Audit
Rushnell B. De Vera Secretary General
Aireeza Tandih Region 9 President
Ms. Yvethe Santiago, Bb. Pilipinas
Supranational 2014
Guest judge for AOG 2014 (National)
TOP 10 FAMOUS ACCOUNTANTS
1. John Grisham. While this red-hot novelist is well
known for being a lawyer prior to his writing career, what is less
well known is the fact that his first degree was in Accounting
from Mississippi State University. It wasnt until later that he
went to law school and watched a 12-year-old rape victim
testify and inspire his first novel.
2. Kenny G. The famous soprano saxophone player
graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of
Washington with a degree in accounting. Although hed already
been playing semi-professionally since high school, he wasnt
sure hed make in the music world so accounting seemed like
a much safer bet.
3. Bob Newhart. This funny man got his first job out
of the army working as an accountant in downtown Chicago.
He claims to have invented his own system for balancing the
petty cashwhen the drawer was short, he replaced any
missing money from his own pocket. When his boss accused
him of not using sound accounting practices, he decided to try
something else. Ironically, it was while he was working as an
accountant that he began doing his famous telephone routines.
4. Gibby Haynes. It might be hard to believe, but this
outrageous lead singer of the hot punk band The Butthole
Surfers went to Trinity University and earned his degree in
accounting. In fact, he was captain of the basketball team,
president of his fraternity, and was voted Accounting Student of

the Year. After graduating, he worked for over a year at an

accounting firm before starting the band.
5. Tim DuBois. You might not know this name right
off the bat, but hes known as The Singing Accountant. Hes
written many a hit country song, including Love In The First
Degree, She Got the Goldmine, I Got The Shaft and the
Vince Gill hit When I Call Your Name. While currently the
head of Arista Records, he taught accounting at Owen
University for many years.
6. Walter Diemer. Another name you might not
recognize, he worked as an accountant for the Fleer
Corporation in the 1920s. But in his spare time he tinkered
with recipes until he invented a little something we know today
as Bubble Gum.
7. J. P. Morgan. This famous financier and banker
began his early career as an accountant on Wall Street. But
after his father died and left him the family business, J.P.
Morgan went on to become a banking and corporate pioneer.
He began buying distressed businesses, in particular railroads,
and merging thema common business practice still today.
8. Walter L. Morgan. A name well known in the
business world, Walter L. Morgan was a CPAand is
considered the father of the mutual fund industry. His fund
The Wellington Fundbecame the flagship fund of the
Vanguard Group, the second largest mutual fund company in
the world. When he died in 2000 at the age of 102, he was the
oldest living accountant and CPA.
9. Arthur Blank. Today best known for owning the
Atlanta Falcons football team, he started his early career as an
accountant. But he worked part-time in a hardware store and
along with another employee went on to found Home Depot,
the famous chain of hardware stores. This little company made
him a billionaireand his accounting know-how taught him
how to spend it.
10. Josiah Wedgewood. Yes, that Wedgewood, the
famous potterhe invented what we now call Cost Accounting.
Thanks to a lucky combination of an embezzling clerk and a
depression, Josiah was forced to come up with a system of
tracking bottom line costs and profit. He used this system to

determine the costs of his product, and was only one of

hundreds of potters to survive the depression.