About KIT
KIT is an optional one-week experience to help prepare students for Krannert's Masters Programs. Participants will:

• Take advantage of accelerated educational programs taught by Krannert faculty.
• Network with faculty and fellow students.

Do You Need KIT? 
Download these quizzes (PDF) to find out. 

Why KIT?
The first module of any MBA program can be especially challenging as students transition from their old life back to being students, often moving to a new location and establishing themselves in a new community.  In addition, most students are encountering graduate-level course work for the first time, along with new subject matter.  

To help new students with that transition, we are offering this voluntary, one-week refresher course in math skills, accounting, and quantitative methods.  The idea for this course and the list of topics to be covered evolved from conversations with current and past students and faculty.

Students last year gave KIT high marks for helping them return to the classroom.  They also felt that one of the most important benefits of the program was the opportunity to meet their new student colleagues. Many students formed lasting friendships while attending KIT.

Benefits of KIT
As a KIT participant, you will gain:

• Understanding of basic concepts and terminology for accounting and quantitative methods.
• Opportunities to get to know your classmates, faculty, and staff.
• Useful study skills and techniques.
• A better understanding of what will be expected of you as a Krannert student.
• A head start on your new life in Greater Lafayette.

KIT Logistics
Housing and Lodging
Click here for lodging options.  If you need assistance or recommendations, please call 765-494-0773.

KIT Schedule of Events
Click here for a tentative schedule of events for 2007.  This will be updated as KIT approaches.

Cost
KIT cost is $850.  Cost for both KIT and KITE is $1300, a cost savings of $200.00

Cancellations and Refunds
Should you need to cancel, you can receive a 50% refund if you notify us before July 15.  Cancellations received after July 15 will receive no refund.

KIT Registration
Registration link

KIT Faculty

Tony Greig
Continuous Term Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1991
M.S. in applied economics, University of Rochester, 1986
B.Com., University of Otago, 1977

Dr Greig was a member of the Krannert Faculty from 1991 - 1998 as an assistant professor in accounting. He held a position at the University of Evansville from 1998 - 2002 before returning to Purdue in 2002. He is professionally certified as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in New Zealand and as a CMA and CFM in the USA. His teaching and research interests are in financial accounting and capital markets.

Dr Greig was an American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, an Olin Foundation Fellow, an American Accounting Association New Faculty Fellow and a Trueblood Seminar Fellow. He is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), the IMA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand (ICANZ), and the Association of Chartered Accountants in the United States (ACAUS). He was awarded the Robert Meyer Gold Medal for excellence on the CMA exam and is a member of both the accounting fraternity Beta Alpha Psi and the business fraternity Beta Gamma Sigma.

Mohit Tawarmalani
Professor of Management
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1997
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1993

Professor Tawarmalani's teaching interests are deterministic and stochastic operations research, logistics, production planning, engineering economics, statistics, and decision analysis. His research interests include mathematical programming, complexity and approximation, and symbolic computing.

Professor Tawarmalani is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and serves as the Web administrator of the Optimization section of its website.

Lynda J. Thoman
Assistant Professor of Management
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1984
M.A., Stanford University, 1977
B.A., Grinnell College, 1968

Professor Thoman teaches courses in both managerial and financial accounting.  Her current research focuses on auditing issues, the source of the demand for auditing, how the legal system disciplines auditors, how accounting standards are chosen, and agency problems - what makes hierarchies advantageous and how the agency contract is affected when firms must compete for managers.  Her recent publications include "On Auditors and the Courts in an Adverse Selection Setting" (with Nahum Melumad), Journal of Accounting Research (Spring 1990) and "An Equilibrium Analysis of Optimal Audit Contracts" (With Nahum Melumad), Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 1990).

Professor Thoman's prior professional work experience was as an economics instructor at Santa Clara University (1981-83) and Scripps College (1983-84).  She is a member of the American Accounting Association.