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fellow CPAs for the next CPA Legislative Visit on Wednesday, May 2 in http://www.mocpa.org/Content/22366.aspx > Want to Present On CPA Careers At A Register today for this FREE event! Are you
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2:00 p.m., and lunch is provided. Date: Friday,
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Internal Control Standard The PCAOB
issued a report on the second-year implementation of its Auditing Standard
No. 2, An Audit of Internal Control
over Financial Reporting Performed in Conjunction with an Audit of Financial
Statements ("AS No. 2"). The report is based on PCAOB
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control over financial reporting (ICFR) by registered public accounting
firms. http://www.pcaobus.org/News_And_Events/Events/2007/04-18.aspx > FASB Issues an Exposure Draft to Improve the Accounting for Financial
Guarantee Insurance Contracts Last
week, FASB issued a proposal to improve the accounting for financial
guarantee insurance contracts. The proposal, Accounting For Financial Guarantee Insurance Contracts an
Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 60, reduces diversity in practice
and provides financial statement users with clearer, more comparable
information and expanded disclosures. http://www.fasb.org/news/nr041807.shtml > In a
national survey of CFOs and senior comptrollers conducted by Grant Thornton
LLP, 14 percent say they plan on making use of the fair value option and only
five percent say they plan to adopt both Statement 157 and the fair value
option early. http://accounting.smartpros.com/x57345.xml > CPAs Find New Opportunities In Outsourcing After years
of fear and trepidation, finance managers and accountants are learning how to
stop worrying and love outsourcing. CPA2Biz's Rick Telberg
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6,000 public companies face a serious dilemma about their Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance: Should they use the current version of Section 404 now in
reviewing internal controls over their financial reporting? Or should they
wait until the Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Company
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Estate and Financial Planning for
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2007— 13 CPE Credit Hours School Audit Conference May 14,
2007— Information Technology Conference June 20,
2007— ________________________________ Technology Tip of the Week Provided
by the MSCPA Information Technology Committee In
Excel, Separating Names into Individual Columns Occasionally you may have a set of names in a workbook. The
names are all in column A, and some have first and last name, while others
use first, middle and last names. You then need to separate the names into
individual columns, but the Text to Columns wizard doesn't provide
satisfactory results. To view recently archived issues of
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