{"id":9338,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/06\/furman-trio-wins-best-article-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:40:34","slug":"furman-trio-wins-best-article-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-trio-wins-best-article-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman trio wins &#8216;Best Article of the Year&#8217; award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article co-authored by Furman First Gentleman Charles Davis, Department of Art Chair Ross McClain and Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship Executive Director Anthony Herrera has been named the winner of Institute of Management Accountants\u2019 Lybrand Gold Medal for the best article of the year published in Strategic Finance and Management Accounting Quarterly. The article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2021\/04\/01\/developing-creative-accountants\/\">\u201c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sfmagazine.com\/post-entry\/april-2021-developing-creative-accountants\/\">Developing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2021\/04\/01\/developing-creative-accountants\/\">\u00a0Creative Accountants,<\/a>\u201d details the 10 characteristics of creativity and how to develop those qualities, no matter your vocation or station in life. It appeared in the April 2021 issue of the IMA\u2019s peer-reviewed journal Strategic Finance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have all seen over the past year, people have had to be more creative than ever in their approach to their work. Surveys of business leaders reveal that creativity increases in employee productivity and happiness, fosters innovation, and leads to improved corporate financial performance,\u201d said Davis, an adjunct professor at Furman and accounting professor at Baylor University. \u201cThis article helps accounting and finance professionals, who most people don\u2019t think of as creative types, understand ten characteristics of creativity and how those characteristics can be developed to improve job performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IMA says: \u201cThese awards recognize individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the profession through articles published in\u00a0Strategic Finance\u00a0and\u00a0Management Accounting Quarterly\u00a0from May 2020 through April 2021.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Added Davis: \u201cThe paper is a great example of cross-disciplinary collaboration \u2013 art, accounting, innovation and entrepreneurship \u2013\u00a0that is the foundation of a liberal arts education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article co-authored by Furman First Gentleman Charles Davis, Department of Art Chair Ross McClain and Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship Executive Director Anthony Herrera has been named the winner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,45,20,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-art","category-business-and-accounting","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}