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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 Rick Mills, a partner with Mayer
Hoffman McCann/CBIZ in Kansas City,
who will lead the society as chair during this new fiscal year. A very special thanks to Bob Torretta,
a sole practitioner from St. Charles,
who has done an outstanding job of leading and enhancing the profession, as
well as the society, over this past year.
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> CPA Jobs
Here in Missouri!
Since
its launch in March, nearly 100 employers here in Missouri
have posted their jobs on the new MSCPA
Career Center.
http://careers.mocpa.org/
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> Register Now for
2008 Industry Networking Roundtables!
Join us for the 2008 MSCPA Industry
Networking Roundtables! Take advantage of this opportunity to meet
other CPAs in the industry sector, exchange ideas, and discuss the issues
that are important to you.
All roundtables meet 8:30am-11:00am and offer 3 hours of CPE
credit for just $50.
o
Tuesday,
July 22, 2008 in St. Joseph
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Thursday,
July 24, 2008 in St. Louis
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Wednesday,
August 20, 2008 in Kansas City
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Tuesday,
September 23, 2008 in Springfield
Special deal: Register for more than one roundtable and pay just $45 per
session! For more information, please call Holly
Moriarity at 800.264.7966. http://www.mocpa.org/content/22188.aspx
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> Filing Extensions Changing for Some Business
Taxpayers Later this Year
The
IRS announced a change in the extended due date on certain business returns
to help individuals better meet their filing obligations. The change, which
reduces the extension period from six to five months, eases the burden on
taxpayers who must report information from Schedules K-1 and similar
documents on their individual tax returns.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=184347,00.html
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> Survey Results
Show Many Companies Are Unprepared For XBRL
AccountingWeb reports that a new survey from Compliance
Week suggests that many publicly held companies are barely aware of XBRL,
the financial reporting technology the Securities and Exchange Commission is
poised to impose on Corporate America later this fall.
One
consultant shares tips for CFOs in today’s economic environment.
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11661464?f=home_featured
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> GASB Issues Statement No. 53, Accounting
and Financial Reporting for Derivative Instruments
The
Governmental Accounting Standards Board issued GASB Statement No. 53, Accounting
and Financial Reporting for Derivative Instruments. Statement 53 is
intended to improve how state and local governments report information about
derivative instruments—financial arrangements used by governments to
manage specific risks or make investments—in their financial
statements.
http://www.gasb.org/news/nr063008.html
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CPE 2008 Business & Industry
Conferences:
Investments
Conference
August 4, 2008—St. Louis
Young & Emerging Professionals Conference
August 20, 2008—St. Louis
Women’s Retreat
August 25, 2008—St. Louis
Seminars:
Choice
of Entity--Tax Pros & Cons: S Corp, C Corp, Partnership, LLC and Sole
Proprietorship
August
6, 2008—St. Louis
Sarbanes-Oxley
Section 404: What Everyone Needs to Know About Internal Controls (Corporate
Version)
August
8, 2008—St. Louis
Basis/Distributions for
Pass-Through Entities: An IRS Hot Spot
August
11, 2008—Kansas City
Buying
and Selling Businesses: The CPA's Role
August
12, 2008—Kansas City
Construction Contractors: Accounting, Auditing and Tax
August
12, 2008—St. Louis
August
13, 2008—Kansas City
Internal Control Essentials for Financial Managers, Accountants and
Auditors
August
14, 2008—Springfield
Partnership and LLC Taxation:
Advanced Issues, Including Transfers Of Interests And Liquidations
August
14, 2008—St. Louis
Real Estate Accounting and Auditing
August
14, 2008—Kansas City
August
15, 2008—St. Louis
Accounting & Auditing Current (A&A with George & Ray)
August
18, 2008—Kansas City
August
19, 2008—Springfield
August
20, 2008—Cape Girardeau
August
21, 2008—St. Louis
Top 50 Business Tax Bloopers and Blunders and How to Fix Them
August
18, 2008—St. Louis
Auditor Communications: Critical New Requirements
August
19, 2008—Kansas City
Advanced Partnership/LLC
Workshop: How to Do Optional Step-Up in Basis Under Section 754 and Related
Provisions
August
19, 2008—St. Louis
Advanced Update for Compilation, Review and Accounting Services
August
20, 2008—Kansas City
ABC's: Above & Beyond Customer Service-Improving Service Improves
Your Bottom Line
August
21, 2008—Kansas City
August
22, 2008—St. Louis
Where Ethics & Liability Cross Paths
August
21, 2008—Springfield
August
22, 2008—Kansas City
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Technology Tip of
the Week
Provided by the MSCPA Information Technology Committee
In
Excel, Copy Only Visible Cells
When you copy a range that includes
hidden rows or columns, you will also copy the hidden cells. To
copy only visible cells in a selected range, first open the Go To box (use
F5) and choose Special... In the Go To Special box, select Visible
cells only. Excel will now select only the visible cells,
and you can copy and paste as normal.
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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