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> MSCPA Leadership
Changes With New Fiscal Year This month begins the new fiscal year for MSCPA. With the fiscal year change, MSCPA
also welcomes a new slate of officers, board members, and chapter
leaders. Congratulations to > Make a Difference To
Future CPAs MSCPA is
proud to announce a new pilot program in To
prepare you for presenting the curriculum, CPA volunteers are asked to attend
a one-time, two-hour training session, which
will be held in the After assessing the success of this partnership in http://www.mocpa.org/Content/21118.aspx > LEAP Job Shadowing—Sign Up
To Last
year, hundreds of high school students learned about the CPA profession
through half-day job shadowing at
The LEAP Job Shadowing program was very successful last year and the students and teachers are looking forward to participating this year. You are welcome to contact Lou Simpson at 1-800-264-7966 or lsimpson@mocpa.org at any time to register your office as a host. > LAST CHANCE: Nominate a 2007 CPA Woman-to-Watch Do you
know someone who has made a unique contribution to the accounting
profession? Do you work with an
emerging leader who has created an extraordinary initiative in your company? Do any of your associates mentor other
professionals within your firm or community? Nominate
her today for the “2007 CPA Women-to-Watch Award!” The
Missouri Society of CPAs and The American Institute of CPAs Work/Life and
Women’s Initiatives Executive Committee will present these
prestigious awards during the August 27 Women’s Retreat in St. Louis,
where winners will participate in a panel discussion on strategies for
achieving success in the accounting profession. > AICPA Tax Gap Survey AccountingWeb reported about AICPA’s results of its membership survey regarding
the federal tax gap. The AICPA surveyed 1,290
participants in an effort to gain a better understanding about the tax gap.
Survey results from the nearly 1,300 CPAs responding provide such insight
into the tax gap as that over 48 percent of respondents identified the
experience of a traumatic event in taxpayers' lives as the reason that
taxpayers fail to file returns. http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=103741 > IRS to Notify Small Tax-Exempt Organizations of New Information
Reporting Requirement The IRS
announced that it began mailing educational letters this month to more than
650,000 small tax-exempt organizations that may be required to submit a new
annual notice, Form 990-N, “Electronic Notice (e-Postcard) for
Tax-Exempt Organizations Not Required to File Form 990 or 990-EZ.” http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=172258,00.html > Financial Planners Get New Ethics Standards The
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP
Board) has updated the ethical standards for financial planners who are
authorized to use the CFP certification marks,
including new guidance for Americans who seek professional financial planning
advice. http://accounting.smartpros.com/x58325.xml > Document Management Takes Hold http://www.webcpa.com/article.cfm?articleid=24584
This
Week's Headlines |
For CPAs in Public Practice All courses are 8 CPE hours unless otherwise
noted. Seminars: Fringe Benefits & Compensation
Issues Basis Calculations &
Distributions for Pass-Thru Entities—Everything You Need to Know! A Practitioners Guide to Assisting
Clients When Buying or Selling a Business August
7, 2007—Kansas City, MO Determining the Value of a
Business—Purchase, Where Ethics and
Liabilities Cross Paths 8 a.m. -10 a.m. Fulfills 2-Hour
ethics requirement August
9, 2007—Kansas City, MO 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Fulfills 2-Hour
ethics requirement Auditing Local Government
Efficiently, Proficiently & Profitably August
13-14, 2007—St. Louis, MO 16 CPE
Credit Hours Lean Accounting & Lean Work
Flow Government Auditing Standards 2007 August
15, 2007—Springfield, MO Staff Training—Semi-Senior August
20-22, 2007—Columbia, MO 24 CPE
Credit Hours Accounting & Auditing Current
Developments (A&A with George & Ray) August
20, 2007—Kansas City, MO August
21, 2007—Springfield, MO August
22, 2007—Cape Girardeau, MO Conferences: Investments Conference August 6,
2007— Young CPAs
Conference August 17, 2007— Women’s
Retreat August 27, 2007— __________________________________ Technology Tip of the Week Provided
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