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> Want To Save Some Money For The Holidays?
MSCPA wants to improve the Industry
Networking Roundtables, and they want your input! Please take
two minutes to complete this short
survey.
All members who include their names will be entered into a raffle for a $25
CPE coupon!!
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2008 Annual MSCPA Awards
Do you know someone who has made a unique
contribution to the accounting profession? Nominate that person for
the 2008 Annual MSCPA Awards!
Each year, the MSCPA recognizes CPAs who have served their
profession and/or community above and beyond their responsibility.
Nominations are accepted in five categories:
- Outstanding
CPA in Business & Industry
- Outstanding
Educator Award
- Outstanding
CPA in Government
- Innovative
User of Technology
- Public
Service Award
The deadline for nominations is March 14, 2008. For more information, visit http://www.mocpa.org/Content/awards.aspx.
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LEAP Contributor Campaign
With the number of Baby Boomers nearing retirement, a disproportionate number
of new CPAs is needed in the coming years to sustain the CPA profession. Now more than ever, the LEAP
Scholarship Program is needed to help young people understand the rewards
of working in this great profession.
One hundred percent of money donated goes directly toward
scholarships. You can contribute
quickly and easily online with a credit card by visiting http://www.mocpa.org/leap/leap1.html.
The future sustainability of the CPA profession rides on what
you do today!
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> Employees Raiding 401(k)s, CFOs Say
The latest Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business
Outlook Survey, which polls 573 finance chiefs in the U.S. and 1,275 globally, finds
that year-end employee bonuses will fall by 10 percent this year compared to
2006. That decline could be especially painful at a time when more employees
are dipping into their retirement accounts in order to pay bills.
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/10250117?f=home_featured
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> Missouri Small Businesses Invited To Testify on Regulatory Fairness of
State Agencies
The Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board will hold a public hearing from
1-4 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, in Room 400 of the Harry S Truman Building,
301 W High St, Jefferson City. The board will receive testimony with regard
to the state agency's efforts to include small business in the development of
their rules and regulations.
http://www.ded.mo.gov/cgi-bin/dispress.pl?txtpressid=1989
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> FASB issues FASB
Statements No. 141 (R), Business
Combinations and No. 160, Noncontrolling Interests
in Consolidated Financial Statements
The Financial Accounting
Standards Board (FASB) today issued FASB Statements No. 141 (revised 2007),
Business Combinations, and No. 160, Noncontrolling
Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements. Effective for fiscal years
beginning after December 15, 2008, the standards will improve, simplify, and
converge internationally the accounting for business combinations and the
reporting of noncontrolling interests in
consolidated financial statements.
http://www.fasb.org/news/nr120407.shtml
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> Financial Hiring To Keep At Current
Pace In First Quarter
Ten percent of CFOs plan to add accounting and
finance staff during the first quarter of 2008 and 4 percent anticipate personnel reductions,
according to the Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. The
net 6 percent
increase is unchanged from the fourth-quarter 2007 forecast. The majority of
respondents, 86 percent,
foresee no change in hiring activity.
http://www.accountemps.com/portal/..
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> National Ethics Business Survey for 2007
The Ethics
Resource Center (ERC), America’s
oldest nonprofit organization devoted to the advancement of high ethical
standards and practices in workplaces, has just released its 2007 National
Business Ethics Survey (NBES). NBES is the only nationally projectable view of ethics within the private sector, as
reported by almost 2,000 employees at all levels within public and private
companies of all size.
www.financialexecutives.org/eweb/
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> A Little
Thanks May Equal A Lot Of Productivity
According to a
new survey of nearly 1,500 workers, two-thirds said they would like more
thanks on the job, thank you very much. And the vast majority of respondents
want it in person, please, although an e-mail thank you is better than none
at all.
http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=104289&d=883&h=884&f=882&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y
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CPE 2007
For CPAs in Business
and Industry
Seminars:
Current
Ethical Issues for CPAs
(3-5 p.m.)
December
13, 2007—Springfield
Profit Improvement--10 Tips for a
Better Bottom Line & Corporate Ethics Update
December
13, 2007—Kansas City
Nonprofit Auditing and Accounting Update
December
14, 2007—Springfield
Nonprofit Organizations --
A Guide to Advanced
Tax Planning
December
17, 2007—St. Louis
Advanced
Planning for
S Corporations
December
17, 2007—Springfield
2007 Heartland Technology
Conference
December
17-18, 2007—Kansas City
Negotiations & Tax Aspects of
Buying & Selling a Business
December
18, 2007—Kansas City
Form 990
-- AICPA's Answer to Unlocking the Tax Complexities
December
18, 2007—St. Louis
Taxation of LLCs, LLPs, LPs &
Other Partnerships
December
18, 2007—Springfield
Surgent McCoy's Tax Camp
December
19, 2007—Kansas City
The
Fundamentals of Federal
Payroll Taxes, Benefits &
New Hire Reporting
December
19, 2007—St. Louis
The Top 50 Tax Bloopers & Blunders in Real Estate Investments
& How to Fix Them
December
27, 2007—St. Louis
Not-for-Profit Accounting & Reporting -- From Start to Finish
December
28, 2007—Kansas City
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Week,” go to:
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