President:

Candidates, you are pledged to a scholastic and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of financial information professions. To improve our professions, we must set our standards high. Accordingly, the purposes of Beta Alpha Psi and the Insert your chapter name here Chapter are:

• to instill a desire for self-improvement,
• to foster high moral and ethical standards,
• to encourage and give recognition to scholastic and professional excellence,
• to cultivate a sense of responsibility and service,
• to promote the collegiate study of financial information, and
• to provide for its members opportunities to associate with practicing professionals.

Our organization endeavors to stimulate interest in financial information professions. This can be accomplished in large measure by participation in the activities of this Chapter. Membership in Beta Alpha Psi is recognition of your scholastic and professional accomplishments. But equally important, membership acknowledges a capacity for professional success. Membership imposes upon you the obligation to accept a responsible place in the Organization, and later, in the professions of financial information.

Vice-President:

Your scholastic records indicate your competence in the technical aspects of financial information. In addition to accounting, finance or information systems knowledge, a successful professional career will require personal and professional qualities. Honesty and intellectual integrity are the foundation upon which financial information professions are built. Your future association with Beta Alpha Psi should help you to identify and develop those qualities necessary for successful professional career, such as: loyal service, respect for confidence, professional bearing, responsible behavior, due regard for personal appearance, and the ability to communicate with others.

We have reviewed your past accomplishments and have evaluated your future potential. We judge you worthy to join us in our organizational endeavors. We expect you to participate fully in our program to build a better Organization and through it a better business community.

Let us consider three personal attributes that will make your membership more effective:

• First, maintain your intellectual curiosity throughout your career. Keep in mind your primary purpose here at the University. Scholastic excellence is of great importance to you as well as to the Organization.
• Second, strive to maintain a high standard of personal responsibility. Because of the nature of the work of a financial information professional it is essential that you be a person of integrity, conducting yourself with honor in all situations.
• Third, cultivate a genuine tolerance of the attitudes, opinions, and personal characteristics of others.

If you practice the attributes of scholarship, responsibility, and tolerance, you will exemplify the ideals for which our Organization stands, and which are fundamental for the well-being of society.

Our Reporter will now explain the meaning of the Organization's emblem.

Reporter:

The emblem of the Beta Alpha Psi denotes the promise of careers for business information professionals. The rising sun signifies these professional positions as rising ever higher among economic activities. The crossed keys symbolize knowledge as a means of opening the doors of the financial world. The letters Beta, Alpha, and Psi denote Scholarship, Social Responsibility, and Practicality, respectively.

Our Treasurer will now administer the pledge of membership.

Treasurer:

Having become acquainted with the purposes and responsibilities of membership in Beta Alpha Psi, will you accept them? If so, answer, "I will."

Candidates:

I will.

Treasurer:

Please raise your right hand and repeat the membership pledge after me.

"I do solemnly promise
that I will abide by the International Constitution
and Chapter Bylaws of Beta Alpha Psi
to the best of my ability.
I further promise to maintain
the highest moral and scholastic standing
and always to foster the ideals
and purposes of Beta Alpha Psi."

You may lower your hand.

(If you have ordered membership certificates early.)
Names read by faculty advisor, membership certificates distributed by the president.

President:

On behalf of Beta Alpha Psi, I now welcome you into the Beta Alphi Psi.

(Officers and present members will individually greet each new member.)