Issue #6 - October 2008: The issue is available for download as a .pdf-file. Click on "current issue".

What we do

To get a closer look at what the Accent editorial team is doing and aiming to do, just read issue #1's letter from the editor - which is basically including our mission statement:

Enter: Accent
Students at our faculty are a serious bunch of people you might think. We have all chosen no-nonsense subjects to study, preparing eagerly for business life and big money – or so we hope. In an already utilitarian study programme we readily skip text-book pages of low relevance (“Ethics in action”) and grudgingly absorb classes we deem superfluous (“Philosophy of Science”). Instead we indulge in subjects like accounting just because that is what our future employers want to see.

In the end we are all working hard on our CVs. That is not to say that we cannot have fun – in the little spare time we have we go out and party as if there was no tomorrow. Living a student life like this is like creating your own little cosmos. We mingle with likeminded people and we learn the same mantras. Are we loosing touch with the outside world? True, some of us may have a brief look at the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal during a boring lecture and tune in to some news channel at night. Still I have the feeling that most of the time we stew in our own juice.
In different ways EFM Academy is actively supporting you in this: In skills trainings you can learn how to read your accounting books faster, in exam trainings you’re pushed through QM or whatever subject you have to pass. On company visits and similar events you learn how to optimize your career. And on Craze parties you can socialize the students’ way. The combination of these activities adds up to EFM Academy’s claim “serious fun”. But what is it doing to broaden your horizon – to help you escape your own juice?
In comes Accent: Of course this all-new members’ magazine offers you topics of both the serious and the fun side of your studies: You can happily learn from our pizza taxi test and also get to know what companies want from you. But Accent does not stop there. The editorial staff has decided to look over its own nose and offer you some extra topics over the world you live in. It offers you articles about fair trade and European federalism; it reflects on the Dutch-German coexistence at our faculty and introduces the personality that hides behind your QM2 lecturer. Accent’s goal is to find the balance of being a general interest publication and a member’s magazine at the same time. You may judge whether this mission is accomplished or not.

Daniel Masny
Former Chief Editor