Technology Conference This Month

Two Days of Technology to Boost Your Productivity

Led by K2 Enterprises

This Conference is filled with 16 hours of fast-paced presentations designed to maximize your time and enhance your learning.  Nationally recognized speakers have extensive expertise in numerous software applications.  They will share their knowledge with you in order to help you do your job with efficiency and ease. Participants will receive helpful tips and advanced techniques, along with the tools and skills necessary to keep up with the ever-increasing pace of changes in computer technology. All sessions feature high quality, full-color computer projection systems for clear viewing. This conference is designed for CPAs in public practice or industry who want to take better advantage of technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

ASCPA 2009 Technology & Productivity Conference for Accountants

Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28

Pelham Civic Complex

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Reserve your spot for this popular conference today!

Self-Study

Did you know that you can earn CPE from the comfort of your own home?

Choose from the following courses, or purchase the Self-Study Buffet including

8 hours of self-study courses for only $125.

Courses authored by Thomas Ratcliffe, Ph.D., CPA and

J. Stephen Grice, Sr., Ph.D., CPA.

Want more details about earning CPE credit on your own time?

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Accounting Degrees Continue Upward Trend

Accounting Degrees Continue Historic Upward Trend,

According to AICPA Report

The number of students who graduated with accounting degrees in the 2007-08 school year surpassed the previous year’s record level, according to a new report by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.  More than 66,000 achieved bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting, 3.5 percent higher than in 2006-07.

This represents the largest number of graduates since 1972, the year the AICPA began tracking the data, according to the report, 2009 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits.  The gender ratio is 51 percent female, 49 percent male, a 1 percent uptick in the male cohort.

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Create a Winning Team

Enhance your employees’ advancement by becoming a master at coaching by attending the AICPA's Coaching: Enhancing Employee Performance course.  Through this course, you will see how to function as a skilled coach who is an active listener, facilitates employee goal setting and delegates to develop employees.  Learn today’s top ways to track employee performance, provide corrective feedback and follow up on performance problems.

• Develop coaching skills for specific employee situations
• Understand differences between coaching, counseling and mentoring
• Enhance interpersonal and communication skills
• Assess you own coaching skills
• Understand causes of bad attitudes, reasons for poor performance and defensiveness

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ASCPA Interview Skills Workshops

ASCPA Interview Skills Workshops

In order to provide some practical help to accounting students as they approach graduation, the ASCPA will partner with Birmingham staffing firm ITAC Solutions to conduct mock interviews. Additional partners are Becker Professional Review, who will offer two $50 gift cards for business clothing and volunteers from the Young CPAs.

The workshops will consist of a two-hour session divided into resume tips, business and professional dress, ten-minute interviews with as many different interviewers as possible, and a closing critique.

We need volunteers in Montgomery, Huntsville, Troy and West Alabama!

Contact Communications Director Diane Christy to volunteer as an interviewer, to sign up your school or for more information, dchristy@ascpa.org.

ASCPA Open House

The ASCPA Board of Directors

would like to invite you to an

Open House

Friday, August 14, 2009

12:00—1:30pm

1041 Longfield Court - Montgomery, Alabama 36117

Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Noon

Light refreshments will be provided

Please RSVP to Shanna Jackson—sjackson@ascpa.org or 334.834.7650

Peer Review Task Force Opening

Peer Review Board Education and Communication Task Force Opening

The AICPA Peer Review Board Education and Communication Task Force include members who are not on the AICPA Peer Review Board. Those individuals are ordinarily two State CPA Society Administrators. There will be an opening on this task force beginning with the 2009/2010 committee year.  Below are some of the candidate responsibilities for the task force:
Education and Communication Task Force:

• Assist in organizing, preparing, and participating in the annual AICPA Peer Review Conference
• Participate in task force meetings, either via phone or in person
• Provide input that will assist State CPA Society Administers in their responsibilities

If you know of a person who has an interest in serving on the AICPA Peer Review Board Education and Communication Task Force, please have that person apply online via the Volunteer Central website at http://volunteers.aicpa.org.

Instructions for individuals applying:
After login, please do the following:

1. Select Apply located towards the top of the screen.
2. Select Applications
3. Select from categories on the left of screen Peer Review.
4. Click the check box next to Peer Review Board and then select Apply in the lower right of the screen

Also, we urge you to provide additional information, particularly your resume if available by selecting Resume located on the same screen as Applications (refer to # 2 above).  Your Skills can also be indicated by selecting Skills from the same screen.  Although the Resume and Skills are optional they will assist the Peer Review Board members in reaching a final decision in recommending applicants to the Nominations Committee.  If you have any questions or need assistance with this process please contact David Ray of the AICPA Volunteer Services Team at 212-596-6030 or via e-mail to volunteerservices@aicpa.org.   

The AICPA Peer Review Board will consider the candidates in October 2009.  Please complete the online application process by September 1, 2009.

The Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants [ASCPA] is the statewide, professional membership organization representing over 6,500 Alabama CPAs in public practice, industry, government and education. Eleven chapters, various committees and task force groups made up of CPA volunteers develop programs and address issues to help all members be successful professionals. Visit www.ascpa.org

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