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Nico-Arguello

Nico Arguello

Department: Accounting & Information Management

Email: jarguell@vols.utk.edu

Third year

Fields of interest: Internal Audit, External Audit, Corporate Governance

Nico Arguello earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting as well as a master’s degree in accounting (with a double concentration in audit/advisory and tax) from Southern Methodist University in 2014 and 2016, respectively. His professional career includes work as an internal auditor at Trinity Industries. Additionally, he worked as a manager for EY (Dallas) across several lines of service, ranging from assurance and internal audit to accounting compliance and reporting (ACR). Immediately prior to joining UT’s Ph.D. program, he worked as an internal audit manager at Protiviti (Dallas). He is a certified public accountant in the state of Texas and a certified internal auditor. He is also a member of The Ph.D. Project (KPMG Foundation), the president-elect of the Accounting Doctoral Student Association (ADSA), a recipient of the AICPA Fellowship for Minority Doctoral Students and a Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholar.