The Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa has received a gift to create an endowed scholarship from N&K CPAs, Inc. The endowed scholarship will provide tuition assistance to the best and brightest Accounting students at the College in perpetuity.
N&K has selected the University of Hawai‘i Shidler College of Business’ Accounting program as the recipient of its endowment to assist deserving accounting students in preparing for a career in public accounting. Many of the leaders and team members of N&K are proud graduates of the Accounting program at the Shidler College of Business and the firm continues to recruit from there.
“We believe this gift is a good way to give back to the University and assist young students who aspire to become a CPA someday,” said Alton K. Miyashiro, N&K managing principal.
“We are grateful to N&K for investing in the best and brightest Accounting students,” says Vance Roley, dean of the Shidler College of Business. “N&K has been a longstanding partner of the College via internships, hiring our graduates, and student mentoring. It is wonderful to now have them as part of our scholarship program in perpetuity.”
The N&K CPAs Endowed Scholarship joins a scholarship program that is the largest in the entire UH System. It provides, on average, $1 million in tuition assistance to deserving Shidler College of Business students each academic year. This enables students to graduate on-time, without debt, and with internship and study abroad experiences.
In 1973, Sadao Nishihama and Glenn Kishida formed a partnership, and with a staff of nine, they opened their office at 1001 Bishop Street to provide accounting and tax services.
Since its humble beginnings, N&K has grown to a firm of eight principals and over 60 personnel to become one of the largest local CPA firms in the State of Hawai‘i. Today N&K is a full service CPA firm providing attest, tax and consulting services to Hawaii based businesses with a local approach to service delivery along with global connections and resources.
Original Press Release: https://www.uhfoundation.org/news/nk-cpas-inc-establishes-endowed-scholarship-accounting-excellence-uh-manoa-shidler-college
