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August 25, 2009 |
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Membership Survey | ||||||||||||||||||||
ASCPA Membership Task Force Wants Your Feedback!
The ASCPA Membership Task Force is evaluating the ASCPA's Member Benefits Program and would like your feedback!
Have ideas about benefits or services the ASCPA could offer members? Let us know!
Please take the time to complete this very brief survey and let your voice be heard: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KxH_2fLEi2Dqrt43VXZ9vOmg_3d_3d
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CPE with ASCPA |
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Looking for CPE hours? We offer a variety of relevant topics and flexible formats for you!
Check out our online catalog for both 4-hour and 8-hour course offerings. Sort by city or topic, or print the complete schedule:
Interested in web-based learning? CPACrossings and ACPEN offer courses perfect for you: http://www.ascpa.org/Content/ContinuingEducation/Webcast.aspx
Looking for a little flexibility? Don't forget about our online self-study courses written by Dr. Ratcliffe and Dr. Grice: http://www.ascpa.org/Content/ContinuingEducation/SelfStudyCoursesOnline.aspx
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Financial Accounting and Auditing Conference |
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Attend the 17th Annual Financial Accounting & Auditing Conference Gain Insight on Current A&A Topics
Update on Auditing Standards for Nonpublic Companies Mike Glynn, Technical Manager, Audit and Attest Standards, AICPA
2008-09 KPMG Forensic Integrity Survey and Elements of Fraud Risk Management Justin H. Snell, Director/ Sarah H. Jacobs, Manager KPMG Atlanta, Georgia
Update on Compilations and Reviews Mike Glynn, Technical Manager, Audit and Attest Standards, AICPA
Friday, September 25 Auburn Montgomery 8 hours of A&A CPE Credit $215 for Members/$265 for Nonmembers
For more information about our other conferences, visit our website:
http://www.ascpa.org/Content/ContinuingEducation/Conferences.aspx
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ASCPA Clusters |
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We've hand-picked these classes for you and we're bringing them to your doorstep.
Check out these local classes on our website: http://www.ascpa.org/Content/ContinuingEducation/Clusters4hours.aspx
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Changes to Compilation & Review Services Proposed | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biggest Changes to Compilation and Review Services Since 1978 May Be Ahead; Hear What’s Proposed
In late April, the AICPA's Accounting and Review Services Committee released an exposure draft that would revise the standards for compilation and review engagements. Comments were due July 31; the committee is now reviewing the comment letters and will consider issuance of final standards at meetings this fall. The changes, designed to address concerns of small businesses, users of small-business financial statements and CPAs who serve smaller entities, would allow an accountant to issue a review report on financial statements when also performing nonattest services that were designed to improve the reliability of the client's financial information.
Additionally, the proposed standard would harmonize review standards with the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board's review standard ISRE No. 2400 as well as recodify AR section 100, Compilation and Review of Financial Statements, into separate chapters for compilation and review engagements. Get all the details from Tom Ratcliffe, chair of the ARSC Reliability Task Force, as he discusses how the new compilation and review paradigm would work in Part I and Part II of this podcast series.
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Technology CPE | ||||||||||||||||||||
Don't forget about our Technology Conference coming up Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28 Pelham Civic Complex
Need a place to stay? We have negotiated a discount rate with Hampton Inn & Suites in Pelham for $105. This rate includes breakfast and free high speed internet access. Just mention discount rate code: CPA. Call to book your room today: (205) 313-9500.
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Get a Jump Start on Tax Season | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tax season will be here before you know it. Are you ready and do you have the current information to save you and your client money?
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Join us on the web! | ||||||||||||||||||||
What's all this hype about the ASCPA and social networking? See for yourself—here's the rundown.
91 people in our Facebook group
110 people in our LinkedIn group
636 followers on Twitter
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ASCPA Barebones Classes |
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Our basic, stripped down classes that will save you a lot of dough
Check out ASCPA Barebones classes coming to your area soon. $145 for Members and $195 for Non-members
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Recession Revs Up CPA Career Plans |
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Recession Revs Up CPA Career Plans by Rick Telberg, Editor—www.cpa2biz.com
While the CPA profession is proving remarkably recession-resistant, the worst business downturn since the Great Depression is nevertheless taking a toll.
To be sure, a number of firms and finance organizations have been forced into painful layoffs, although the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a net seasonally adjusted 4,000-job increase from June to July at accounting and bookkeeping services, bringing the industry workforce to about 940,300. Still, that's down from a year-ago July, when the BLS reported 947,500 jobs in the industry. READ MORE at www.cpa2biz.com
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Fraud and Internal Controls |
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Learn to identify the red flags of fraud in financial information and analyze a variety of fraud schemes. Classes include addressing personnel fraud, revenue recognition, various financial statement manipulations, theft of capital assets, purchasing fraud, and other common areas of interest.
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Source Needed! |
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Are you a CFO or other non-IT executive that has direct reports in IT? (or has the IT department reporting to you)
A writer from a large financial magazine would like to use you as a source in an article. The reporting set up needs to have occurred in the past year or 18 months at most.
If you're interested in this opportunity and meet the above qualifications, please e-mail rbox@joemoneymachinery.com.
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About the ASCPA
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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