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HONOLULU, HI — 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.

Photo Caption - Left to right: Vance Roley, dean, Shidler College of Business; Lawrence M. Chew; Wesley B. Hiyane; Alton Miyashiro; Brian Isobe; Blake S. Isobe; Michael I. Tanaka; Hamid Pourjalali; director, School of Accountancy; and Unyong Nakata, senior director of development, UH Foundation – Shidler College of Business. Missing from photo: Dwayne S. Takeno and Chad Funasaki.

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The Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Founded in 1949, the college was named in 2006 after alumnus Jay H. Shidler, founder and managing partner of The Shidler Group. In 2014, Shidler increased his initial gift of $25 million to $100 million, making it the largest donation to the University of Hawai‘i from a private donor. The Shidler College of Business is renowned for its multicultural learning environment and its expertise in international business education, and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 25 graduate schools for international business by U.S. News & World Report. Long recognized for its Asia-Pacific focus, the college offers a wide variety of degree, certificate and executive programs. The UH Mānoa Shidler College of Business is the only graduate program in the state of Hawai‘i accredited by AACSB International. For more information, visit www.shidler.hawaii.edu.

The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa serves approximately 20,000 students pursuing more than 225 different degrees. Coming from every Hawaiian island, every state in the nation, and more than 100 countries, UH Mānoa students matriculate in an enriching environment for the global exchange of ideas. For more information, visit http://manoa.hawaii.edu and http://manoa.hawaii.edu/media/. Follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/uhmanoa and Twitter http://twitter.com/UHManoaNews.

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