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Business , * b Wednesday, September 25, 1985 THE GAMECOCK? ? < tUI.I.ii.I?.-.L... Success c By MARISA PORTO Business editor When Prcssley Ridgill graduated from USC in 1973, he never dreamed he'd be working for one of the top eight accounting firms in the nation. Ridgill, 33, works for the l 1 ~_ r -1- - n * * ? v^uaiiuuc unite 01 inc real iviarwick accounting firm and recently was promoted to senior computer auditing specialist, responsible for computer auditing for North and South Carolina and technical advice on businesses' neeas io r accounting requirements. Ridgill, a business administration graduate, began working foi the National Bank of South Carolina in Sumter after gradua tion and became vice presideni after five years. He decided tc return to graduate school in 1979 Then he began working for Peal Marwick as a staff accountant working one-on-one with client? until auditing is done. "Even if you only go into it foi a few years, just for a short range to bccome certified, the job i< great because it is constant train ing and exposure to different in Prnsnprti I I WWj^WW * By COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If the latest survey figures arc correct, students cosidering higher education teaching careers should become business management professors at schools that bargain collectively with faculty unions. The best-paid collcge teachers in the country are full professors of business manaeement who make up to $71,400 a year, the Unpaid vu By ASSOCIATED PRESS JERSEY CITY, N.J. ? City < ment over more than $940,000 in Liberty say if they don't get sati auction it off. "God, it would be the greate; Cucci said Monday. "We really do not want to sell want is almost a million dollars. SPEED ( 1 Ft "J* V"[ 16 OZ. PEPSI'S I only .25C tax included i $2.1 | 2-ITE GOOD THROUGH 10 18 I 1 ^ omes quic ( dustries," he said. Peat Marwick does accouni t for broadcasting, mining, c ) struction and other major dustries, he said. 1 "It's not like you get into 1 job and get stuck in the posito ' he said. "You have a lot of nosure to neonle in high pU and you get to see how t : operate. I love it." The accounting firm does sc recruiting at USC through ve teachi College and University Person Assocoation (CUPA) reports. The lowest paid full profes surveyed earns $10,000 per y teachinw vmml J?nH nr>rfnrm arts. CUPA's annual study, \vl reports the salaries of more tl 10,000 faculty members at c 700 colleges and universities the only national survey u:n_ cut;i uiiio officials battling the Federal govcr unpaid water bills for the Statue sfaction they'll try to foreclose ai st auction to see," Mayor Antho 1 the Statue of Liberty. What we I'm going after it," Cucci said. Y REEDY formerly Pizza Exp 907 Blossom a.sr free deli 256-1 SI Ff COUPON 00 OFF / M or MOR i kly for USC *ty* ?. "It's not like you get into this job and get stuck in the position. You have a lot of exposure to people in high places and you get to see how they operate. I love it." IPressley Ridgill computer auditor placement office as well as other [ing schools in the South. on- ... "Even if someone isn t interested in working in the South or staying in the Carolinas, we inthis tervicw them and refer them to n," other offices around the nation, ex- The main source of people who ices work here are straight out of ney college. Most people start at Peat Mar>me wick under the Option E prothe gram, which allows new ;rs need bi i tahripc hu Hicrinlinp JinH rank Ill'l ^ J %.wv.p....v explains Carin Luke, CUPA's sor publications managing editor, ear Luke cautions the wide ing discrepancies between salaries within disciplines make combined survey figures and averages diflich ficult to use effectively, han In visual and performing arts, >ver for example, one professor earns , is only $10,000 per year, but oi anotncr run proiessor surveyeu could force George Berklacy, a spokesman f n- which operates the island through of the defense of Lady Liberty, sayin nd property. "We'd like to find the guy who ny sell him the Brooklyn Bridge," sa The city has urged the Interior do covers three years and is mostly debt's a debt and officials must r 'S PIZZA iress) St. VERY D301 its!* qGS!* STORE HOURS: JNTHUR 4:30-1:30 AM II & SAT 4:30-2:30 AM FREE DOUBLE CHEESE ni\i aii pi 77 a a t/f t nkk v if.i.nu l/>K 14" \E PIZZA ONE COUPON PER PIZZA mmmmmmtmmmnwmmmmmmmmmmmmammimtmmmt graduate employees to go into another office for six months to see which office they would prefer to work for. The new employees can go directlv into the tax department if they show an interest, Ridgill said. Most of the consulting is handled from the Atlanta and Charlotte offices, according to Ridgill. "I like the Carolinas," he said. "I'll probably stay here. We do have rotational assignments, but I want to stay in the South." According to Fortune 500 magazine, the eight top accounting firms include: Arthur Anderson: Arthur Yonnc: Price Waterhousc; Ernston Whiney; Touche Ross; Dcloitte, Haskins and Sells; Coopers and Lyband; and Peat Marwick. Peat Marwick has 300 offices around the world and 100 in the United States. "It (the company) gives you an opportunity for advancement all over the world," he said. "It gives yuu an auvamagc uvci u smaller firm. Certain offices have different specialties." L isiness deg makes $51,000 per year. I Salary differences among all t ranks and disciplines vary from i $100 to as much as $4,000, Luke \ notes. t The survey also found that < teachers at colleges which have ; collective bargaining agreements j and faculty unions generally i make more than other faculty 1 members and that assistant pros auction ol or the U.S. Department of Interior, the National Park Service, rose to g no entity can foreclose on federal | :c ...A uuya II1C SldlUt ClIIU act II wc CUUIU id Berklacy. i Department to pay the bill,' which the result of a leaking pipe. But a ; esort to more forceful action, said < !S?I?I WM Get to Wi Wh.tr you need to tackle the higher mathematics of {science or engineering cur riculum are more function H C .1 ^ IIUHr I III lL I II JIlN Ulilll il Mill ;; slide-rule calculator has. j | Enter the TI-55-11, wit! '! 112 powerful functions. Y<> can work faster and more accurately with the TI-S5Ij because it's preprograinme !] I'>HS II S.C.'s text continue t( By MARY FANT Staff writer South Carolina's manufacturing s major slump despite overall growth i ding to several sources. A report on South Carolina econc by the USC College of Business / Employment Security Commission, iiictiiuidviiJi iii?> wuiuuiut IU ?* ment has grown by 18,000 jobs, and l percent in May, well below the natic A total of 10,200 jobs were lost fr< cording to Jeri Taylor, spokeman for loss came in the area of textiles a where alone 9,500 jobs were lost," 1 In recent times much attention has ing industries, especially textiles, b dropping so rapidly. USC professor the economic indicators report, said t of trade with other countries, such a porting cheaper goods than Ameri although improvements in technolog When asked about the future of Ellson replied, "It is definitely evol economy." Ellson denied there ar manufacturing slump and warned a protective measures as import quot ree, study essors earn substantially more if n hey teach in fields where s icademe must compete for talent vith private industry. Finally, t he survey found that private o schools pay faculty as much as s &32.500 more a year than state " schools pay, but the lowest-paid d private school teachers make as a nuch as $3,700 less than their e owest-paid state counterparts. / CUPA's survey is the second t< f Statue ol rhomas Fodice, an attorney for the < After a $400,000 billing a couple y plained that there must have been a Water officials later discovered the c The bill continued to soar until th< usage at the island J?roiwh^i^tjp its p Liberty Island and theStatueof Lie 26 public auction, but the legal ad, sc :d, said city tax collector Tim Rausc! lUSUMMNBH ySmmBm Al 7 ^ ^'j| ^la f > the answers lththeTL-55t<> perform complex calcula- the ' a tions - like definite integrals, and linear regression and hyper- the | s - holies - at the touch of a CJ pie button. And it can also be Let programmed to do renetifivt* shov ? problems without re-entering u the entire formula. Included is the Calculator In II, /X'u.Mon-Making Sourcebook. ^ d It makes the process of usinj? ile woes ) slump ector is still suffering from a in the state's economy, accor>mic indicators, issued jointly \dministration and the state stated that problems in the srsen, although total employ 1 < a LUiiiii|Jiuymini UIV/^^VVI iu J.7 >nal average of 7 percent. jm July 1984 to July 1985, acthe commission. "The largest nd textiles-related industries, raylor said. been focused on manufactur- a ecause employment rates are w R.W. Ellson, co-producer of the problem is mostly a matter s China and South Korea, excan companies can produce, ;y have cost jobs also. : South Carolina's economy, Iving into a different kind of e any quick solutions to the gainst the imposition of such as and tariffs. says * uajor study of 1984-85 faculty alaries. 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