Members of Beta Alpha Psi, an accounting honors fraternity, are auditing St. Paul’s Episcopal Church as one of their two community service projects.

“Our basic goal is the professional development of our members. We do a lot of community services,” said Beta Alpha Psi President Kelly Parker.

One of the honor fraternity’s projects is an audit of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road, DeKalb.

Fraternity member Wayne Koch said the project is a chance for accounting students to put what they have learned in class to work in a real situation.

“In accounting the hardest thing to visualize is auditing someone. It’s a chance to complement what you’re learning,” Koch said.

In addition several seniors and one graduate student from Beta Alpha Psi are making suggestions on how a private non-for-profit firm in Sandwich, Ill., an organization which assists older adults, can revise and improve its accounting system.

“We’re helping them to make their system more efficient. The project is going fine. We’re going to be done with it after spring break,” said graduate student Bernadette Tallitsch.

The fraternity, which has over 100 members, is “open to all accounting majors with a 3.25 GPA in their accounting classes and a 3.0 GPA overall,” said Parker.