If it was not for the University of Georgia, George Azih ’s LeaseQuery, No. 1 on the 2020 Bulldog100 list of fastest-growing companies owned and/or operated by UGA alumni, would not exist. Azih recalled his Intermediate Accounting class, which had only seven students because others, he said, “had the option to take an easier class.” His professor, the late Dan Smith, required his students to create amortization schedules – tables of periodic loan payments that include the amount of principal and interest for each payment – by hand rather than use a common shortcut. “Other professors would let students […]
