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> Make A Difference To Future CPAs!
MSCPA is
proud to announce a new pilot program in St. Louis with Junior Achievement.
This new
partnership with Junior Achievement offers CPAs a chance to present a
special accounting curriculum for high school students.
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 MSCPA
Learning Center
on Thursday, August 23, 2007. There will
be a session in the morning from 8:00-10:00 a.m. and an afternoon session
from 2:00-4:00
p.m.
After assessing the success of this partnership in St. Louis, MSCPA will
begin expanding through the rest of the state.
http://www.mocpa.org/Content/21118.aspx
> LEAP Job Shadowing—Sign Up
To Host High School Students!
Last
year, hundreds of high school students learned about the CPA profession
through half-day job shadowing at Missouri
firms and companies. This year,
MSCPA is now campaigning for you to volunteer your firm or company as a job
shadow host and will contact the high school business and math teachers
concerning the job shadowing opportunities in mid-September. Like last
year, MSCPA will continue to encourage firms/companies to hold their job
shadowing programs in early February with the national Groundhog Day Job
Shadowing program; however, the program will run the entire school
year. If you find that the February date is not convenient for your
office, please consider hosting one or more students at another time
during the school year.
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.
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What Inflation? CFOs Pare Back
Expectations for Capital Spending, Hiring and Prices
American
companies are forecasting single digit percentage increases in capital
spending, hiring, and the prices of their products over the next 12 months,
according to a recent survey of CFOs conducted by FEI
and Baruch College's Zicklin
School of Business. However, these expected increases are trending
downward from earlier forecasts.
http://www.fei.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?site=_fei&webcode=main_
detail&key=bcc1efca-8200-4feb-aa91-01fa04fcfaa2
> Ease FIN 48 Costs With Training,
Guidance, Say Tax Execs
Will tax departments need more staffing because of the new requirements of
FIN 48? The consensus was "no" when a group of Tax Executive
Institute (TEI) members joined Thomson Tax &
Accounting to discuss the effect of the new requirements.
http://accounting.smartpros.com/x58333.xml
> Missouri Ranks 13th For Recruitment And
Attraction
Expansion
Management Magazine named Missouri
the 13th best state in the country for recruiting and attracting industries
looking to expand or relocate.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2007/07/09/daily63.
html?jst=b_ln_hl
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CPE 2007
For CPAs in Business and Industry
Seminars:
How to be
an Effective Corporate Controller
July
30, 2007—Kansas City
July
31, 2007—St. Louis
Fringe Benefits & Compensation
Issues
August
1, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Basis Calculations &
Distributions for Pass-Thru Entities—Everything You Need to Know!
August
2, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Determining the Value of a
Business—Purchase, Sale,
and Estate Planning Issues
August
8, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Where Ethics and
Liabilities Cross Paths
August
9, 2007—St. Louis, MO
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ethics requirement
August
9, 2007—Kansas City, MO
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Lean Accounting & Lean Work
Flow
August
15, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Techniques for Assessing Internal
Control
August
16, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Real Estate—From Purchase
thru Sale or
Foreclosure
August
21, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Emerging Companies—Business
and Financial Strategies
August
23, 2007—Kansas City, MO
Conferences:
Investments Conference
August
6, 2007—St. Louis, MO
Registration
Agenda
Young CPAs
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August 17, 2007—St. Louis, Mo
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Women’s Retreat
August 27, 2007—St. Louis, MO
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Technology Tip of the Week
Provided
by the MSCPA Information Technology Committee
In Excel, Analyze Excel Data With The Match
Function
Management would
like a quick and easy way to find total unit sales for any given product
during any given month. They are currently spending a great deal of time scanning
an Excel spreadsheet that lists unit sales of each of the company's products
for the first six months of 2007 in A3:G110.
More...
To view recently archived issues of
"Technology Tip of the Week," go to: http://www.mocpa.org/Content/22269.aspx
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