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Dr. Loren C. Scott to present Louisiana Economic Outlook |
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Argent Financial Group, in conjunction with the Northeast Louisiana Chapter of the Louisiana CPA’s is sponsoring Dr. Scott in Monroe at 8 a.m. October 30th at The Atrium in for continuing education credit for CPAs. Argent will co-sponsor with the Shreveport Chapter of Louisiana CPAs a 4 p.m. presentation at The University Club in Shreveport the same presentation. Dr. Scott is the President of Loren C. Scott & Associates, an economic consulting firm whose clients include large national firms as BellSouth, Bank One, ExxonMobil and a diversity of others such as Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Placid Oil Refinery, the Louisiana Chemical Association, Southern Gas Association, Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, the Coushatta Indian Tribe, and the Louisiana Judicial Compensation Commission. His career started at Louisiana State University in 1969 where he spent the next 30 years, rising through the ranks from assistant professor to the prestigious Freeport McMoRan Endowed Chair of Economics and Director of the Division of Economic Development & Forecasting. Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, he was the Chairman of the Economics Department at Louisiana State University. During that time the Department’s ranking among the 3,000 U.S. Economics Departments rose from 101st to 38th. He presently is Professor Emeritus at LSU and continues to teach in both the Executive MBA and LSU Executive Programs. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching. Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana Econometric (econ-o-MET-rick) Model...a model used for providing annual forecasts of the state’s economy which are released each October. He has been a co-investigator on almost $1 million in grant research at LSU and is the author of over 75 articles and technical reports. He gives 50-70 speeches a year on the state of the economy. The charge for the event in both locations is $15. The public is invited to attend with a reservation. For reservations or for more information, contact Donna Bernard at (318) 251-5813 or by email dbernard@argentmoney.com.
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