{"id":84892,"date":"2019-10-15T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=84892"},"modified":"2019-10-15T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:37:47","slug":"dsu-business-student-shelby-irby-wins-another-award-memphis-chapter-of-the-institute-of-internal-auditors-fall-2019-student-day-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/10\/dsu-business-student-shelby-irby-wins-another-award-memphis-chapter-of-the-institute-of-internal-auditors-fall-2019-student-day-essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"DSU Standout Business Student Shelby Irby Wins Another Award: Memphis Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors\u2019 Fall 2019 Student Day Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delta State University standout master\u2019s student Shelby Irby keeps picking up accolades. A few days ago, she won the Memphis Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors\u2019 fall 2019 Student Day Essay Contest and a $1,000 scholarship from Robert Half accounting and finance staffing associates. Irby, enrolled in DSU\u2019s Integrated Master of Business Administration Program, was one of two students to receive the honor at the chapter\u2019s daylong Professionals and Students Day at the Holiday Inn, University of Memphis, on Oct. 10, 2019.<\/p>\n

Entrants had up to six typed pages, double spaced, to answer the following topic: \u201cInternal Auditor: Trusted Advisor or Traffic Cop?\u201d Both, Irby wrote. \u201cTrusted advisors and traffic cops can perform objective assurance functions to evaluate risks, controls, and opportunities to improve an organization\u2019s objectives,\u201d she concluded. \u201cTrusted advisors can do so in a way that gets Internal Audit a seat at the table before a new process is rolled out or an audit is conducted. Whereas, traffic cops become the dreaded police that deliver the bad news when something goes wrong. However, auditors can overcome the stigma by becoming business partners through careful and intentional communication and collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

This type of insight from Irby doesn\u2019t surprise her mentor Dr. Michael B. Amspaugh, associate professor of accounting at Delta State. \u201cHer essay captured the essence of what internal auditing is all about and clearly was a winner,\u201d he said. \u201cShe wrote an amazing essay and is an outstanding student.\u201d<\/p>\n

When majoring in business marketing and management as an undergraduate at Delta State, the then-senior earned one of four junior audit associate internships with FedEx last spring\u2014competing with a dozen other applicants from the Southeast during the on-site interview round. Earlier on, Irby was named an outstanding new member of Kappa Delta sorority in 2016. This past spring, she was inducted into the DSU Student Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Irby, from Madison, Miss., is grateful for the scholarship and for Delta State. \u201cI am extremely thankful for the opportunity to continue my education at Delta State and for Robert Half for choosing me as their scholarship winner at the Institute of Internal Auditors Student Day event,\u201d she said. \u201cThe exposure I have had to Internal Audit at FedEx allowed me to write a winning essay that, in turn, is allowing me obtain my MBA. This is a huge stepping stone that will ultimately allow me to gain further certifications and advance my career. This chain of events started with the faculty and staff at Delta State University. So thank you!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Irby, second from right, and the other 2019 DSU Student Hall of Fame inductees left to right: Nicholas Walters, healthcare administration major, Fort Worth, Texas; Huntley Brewer, biology major, Florence, Miss.; Layla Young, entertainment industries major, Cleveland, Miss.; Elizabeth Swindle, healthcare administration major, Pearl, Miss.; Charlie King, history major, Jackson, Miss.; Samuel Cooper, biology and psychology major, Cleveland; and Destiny McClain, nursing major, Cleveland.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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