  {"id":194365,"date":"2024-03-25T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=194365"},"modified":"2024-03-25T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:23:21","slug":"scholars-government-finance-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/25\/scholars-government-finance-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> business scholars win national government finance contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_194367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194367\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-finance-case-challenge-winners.jpg\" alt=\"three headshots\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-finance-case-challenge-winners.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-finance-case-challenge-winners-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-finance-case-challenge-winners-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You-Fan Chai, Manying Huang and Alaina Rhoades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of three University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a> students won a national government case challenge, and each took home a $1,000 scholarship award.<\/p>\n<p>You-Fan Chai, Manying Huang and Alaina Rhoades spent several months analyzing data for a selected city, which was Denver, Colorado, and developed a &ldquo;Citizen-Centric Report&rdquo; for that location.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was really surreal winning this competition, and it was a great learning experience,&rdquo; Chai said. &ldquo;This competition made us challenge our skills to look for the information we needed regarding Denver, Colorado.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Chai said the team used Canva and CapCut to help make their report, presentation and video visually appealing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We encourage students to participate in competitions like this, not only for the prize, but also to develop themselves through the learning experience,&rdquo; Chai said.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the National Association of Government Accountants (<abbr>AGA<\/abbr>), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agacgfm.org\/Standards\/CCR\/CaseChallenge.aspx\">Government Finance Case Challenge<\/a> illustrated the importance of government accountability and transparency, demonstrated how much data needs to be transformed into information for citizens to consume and raised awareness about exciting careers in government.<\/p>\n<p>The team was advised by <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/soa\/about\">School of Accountancy<\/a> Professor Jian Zhou.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Pamela Young from the <abbr>AGA<\/abbr>&#8212;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Chapter for her indispensable support,&rdquo; Zhou said. &ldquo;Throughout the <abbr>AGA<\/abbr> Government Finance Case Challenge journey, the students undertook a transformative learning experience characterized by their unwavering commitment and receptiveness to feedback from <abbr>AGA<\/abbr>, Pamela Young and myself. Observing their extraordinary development over the course of this journey has been immensely gratifying. Their outstanding achievements in a nationwide case competition are truly commendable, and I couldn&#8217;t be prouder of their success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Submissions were judged by a panel of government finance experts, and finalists presented their findings in a team-created video of a mock government meeting. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agacgfm.org\/Standards\/CCR\/CaseChallenge\/PastWinners.aspx\">third <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa team in four years to win at either the graduate or undergraduate level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agacgfm.org\/getattachment\/Standards\/CCR\/CaseChallenge\/UHM-Denver,-CO-CCR-12-10-23.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US\">View the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa team\u2019s report<\/a> (<small><abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/small>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa team in four years to win at either the graduate or undergraduate level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[753,498,1466,146,660,9],"class_list":["post-194365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-accounting","tag-business","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194371,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194365\/revisions\/194371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}