ÐÓ°Épro Native corporations seminar offered

January 26, 2016

Andrea Miller

GAAP President Chris Piech speaks at the first ÐÓ°Épro Native corporations seminar in 2013.
GAAP President Chris Piech speaks at the first ÐÓ°Épro Native corporations seminar in 2013.


The Great ÐÓ°Épron Accounting People will host a seminar about ÐÓ°Épro Native corporations at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the Murie Building auditorium. A social hour with light refreshments will start at 5 p.m.

Four panelists will speak and then take questions.

GAAP is a ÐÓ°Épro student club. This is GAAP's fourth annual seminar, which features distinguished speakers from a variety of backgrounds involving ÐÓ°Épro Native corporations.

This year’s speakers include:


  • Jim Hasle, Anchorage assurance office managing partner with BDO, a national accounting and consulting firm.

  • Garry Hutchison, partner with Kohler, Schmitt and Hutchison, a Fairbanks accounting firm.

  • Lia Patton, an assurance office partner with BDO's Anchorage office.

  • Miranda Wright, treasurer for the board of directors of Doyon Limited, the Fairbanks-based regional Native corporation.


Julie Stricker, a Fairbanks journalist who has written extensively about ÐÓ°Épro Native corporations, will serve as master of ceremonies for the seminar.

For more information, contact Hayden Nilson, GAAP events officer, at hmnilson@alaska.edu.