Questions & answers
A concise professional overview.
FAQ
01 What roles is Lisa preparing for?
Lisa is preparing for early-career opportunities in audit and accounting. Her experience includes transaction vouching, reconciling client-prepared Excel schedules to supporting records, and organizing company and counterparty information for audit work. She also brings research data preparation experience from UT Austin’s Critical Data Studies Lab.
02 What is Lisa’s education timeline?
Lisa is pursuing the STEM-designated Master of Accounting (MAcc) at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, with graduation expected in May 2027. Her CPA education plan is to complete 150 total credit hours by May 2027. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from The University of Texas at Austin in December 2025.
03 Which tools has Lisa used?
Her technical toolkit includes Excel for reconciliation and data preparation, Python for web scraping, Stata, and OCR tools. At KPMG, she tracked corporate information for 3,000+ companies and processed 28,000+ records in Excel. At UT Austin, she used OCR and structured Excel records to support the SIM Card Archive.
04 Which languages does Lisa speak?
Lisa is a native Mandarin Chinese speaker and is fluent in English.
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