Patricia McConnell在熊，Stearns＆Co的职业生涯开始在她寻求高级度假 - 一个MBA和PH.D.论会计与经济学 - 纽约大学。(She would eventually earn the former and complete the coursework for the latter, but she didn’t produce the required dissertation.) A referral from an undergraduate accounting professor at Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s Franklin & Marshall College led to a position as a graduate assistant with an NYU professor who was consulting at Bear Stearns. McConnell started working in the firm’s accounting department in 1974 with All-America Research Team Hall of Famer Lee Seidler (page 69). “I worked with Lee until he retired,” says McConnell. That was in 1989; the following year she debuted on the team, taking second place in Accounting. She climbed to No. 1 in 1991 and held that spot until her own retirement, in 2006. McConnell recalls being summoned one evening in 1992 by the firm’s head of investment banking, Alan Schwartz, to explain inflation accounting to a committee trying to determine whether to help take a Mexican company public. “It’s a good thing I went to NYU in the 1970s, because I knew inflation accounting and could actually use it,” she says. “It was clear that if our commitment committee didn’t understand inflation accounting, our clients wouldn’t either.” By 1995, McConnell was tackling such issues as whether a flat tax or consumption tax would be broached before the 1996 U.S. presidential election and warning clients that any value-added-tax plan would be inflationary unless it was phased in over several years. “Pat has all the answers,” one impressed buy-side supporter told Institutional Investor in 1996. (We expanded the category and renamed it Accounting & Tax Policy in 1997.)
62，麦凯纳州于2009年退休，并搬迁到伦敦代表弗吉尼亚州的国际会计准则委员会的夏洛茨维尔。她仍然关注前同事，并以合理的骄傲为代理骄傲，即在去年的全美研究团队中排名在去年的会计和税收政策“的所有分析师”是我的小组的一部分“。
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