August 12, 2008

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>   LAST CHANCE TO MEET ACCOUNTING STUDENTS!

This fall, your firm has a new opportunity to meet up to 400 students at the LEAP Accounting Career Expo.  This brand new event—which will be held in St. Louis and Kansas City—features speakers, exhibit time, networking, and dinner with future CPAs. 

http://www.mocpa.org/ace
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>   New CPA Job Opportunities!

Right now, there are 11 CPA jobs posted on the MSCPA Career Center. 

http://careers.mocpa.org/

 


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>   MSCPA Industry Networking Roundtables

Meet other CPAs in the industry sector, exchange ideas, and discuss the issues that are important to you at the Industry Networking Roundtables!  These sessions meet 8:30am-11:00am and offer 3 hours of CPE credit for just $50.

o        Wednesday, August 20, 2008 in Kansas CityLAST CHANCE!

o        Tuesday, September 23, 2008 in Springfield

http://www.mocpa.org/content/22188.aspx

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>   MSCPA Fall Committee Day is Approaching!

If you want to build business contacts, learn best practices, and swap ideas…join one of MSCPA’s fast-paced and rewarding committees!  MSCPA committees represent many facets of the CPA profession, as well as an array of MSCPA operational functions.  Register now for the next MSCPA Committee Day!

 

Friday, September 19, 2008
9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Courtyard by Marriott in Columbia
Register now!

 

Review the list of MSCPA committees and sign up today!

http://www.mocpa.org/Content/CommitteesMain.aspx


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   LAST CHANCE!  Register Now For the CPA Women’s Retreat—AUGUST 25!

Meet your fellow female CPAs and learn lifelong strategies that will help you in your professional career.  You’ll learn specifically about:

  • AICPA’s Women’s Initiatives
  • Promoting your talent
  • Achieving work-life balance
  • Off-ramps & on-ramps
  • 8 habits for optimum performance
  • Inspiration from pioneering women

http://www.mocpa.org/Public/Catalog/CourseDetails.aspx?courseID=08WR

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>   Learn Through CPE Webcasts!

Need a few critical hours of CPE, but not sure you have the time to get into a classroom? Then let the classroom come to you!   The Missouri Society of CPAs has partnered with ACPEN to provide you the latest and best CPE available via webcasts!

http://www.cpalearn.com/mocpa/catalog.asp?

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>   Don’t Forget To Fulfill Your Ethics Requirement!

The year is flying by!  Don’t forget to make sure your two-hour ethics requirement is fulfilled.  MSCPA offers many classes that fulfill this requirement.  Check out this class coming up next week in Springfield and Kansas City!

 

Where Ethics & Liability Cross Paths

Springfield, Thursday, August 21, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

http://www.mocpa.org/Public/Catalog/CourseDetails.aspx?courseID=08WELCP-SP

Kansas City, Friday, August 22, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

http://www.mocpa.org/Public/Catalog/CourseDetails.aspx?courseID=08WELCP-KC


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>   FASB Issues Revised Exposure Draft on Earnings per Share

FASB issued a revised an exposure draft of a proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, Earnings per Share—an amendment of FASB Statement No. 128.

http://www.fasb.org/news/nr080708.shtml

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>  Big-Company Audit Fees Ease Up

Corporate America is finally winning its long war to rein in the soaring cost of external audits, according to an analysis of audit fees paid by large companies in 2007.

http://accounting.smartpros.com/x62706.xml

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> Has the IRS Overreached In Audits Of Small Businesses?

The National Small Business Association (NSBA), a small business advocacy group, has launched a new Web site, PreventIRSAbuse.org, designed to uncover potentially abusive IRS audit tactics and inform its members about efforts by the IRS and Congress to use small business audits to enhance revenue, reports AccountingWeb.

http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=105747

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>  Who Needs a COO?

With chief operating officer positions becoming rarer all the time, CFO Magazine reports that companies are relying on CFOs for a lot more than keeping score.

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11871792?f=home_featured

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CPE 2008 Business & Industry

Conferences:

 

Young & Emerging Professionals Conference
August 20, 2008—St. Louis

Women’s Retreat
August 25, 2008—St. Louis

Visit the MSCPA Conferences Main Page!

 

 

Last Chance:


Search all MSCPA courses here!

 

Accounting & Auditing Current (A&A with George & Ray)
August 18, 2008 – Kansas City
August 19, 2008 – Springfield

August 20, 2008 – Columbia

August 21, 2008 – St. Louis



 

Seminars:


Search all MSCPA courses here!

 

Employee Benefit and Retirement Planning: Life, Health, and Other Benefit Tools

September 22, 2008 – Kansas City

 

2007 Revised Yellow Book: Government Auditing Standards, The

September 22, 2008—St. Louis

 

Solving Complex Single Audit Issues for Government and Nonprofit Organizations

September 23, 2008—St. Louis

 

Advanced Controller and CFO Skills

September 24, 2008—Kansas City

 

Critical Skills for Creating Great Budgets: Maximizing Profits, People and Power

September 25, 2008—Kansas City

 

Financial Statement Analysis: Basis for Management Advice

September 25, 2008—St. Louis

 

AICPA's Annual Update for Controllers

September 26, 2008—St. Louis

 

 

 

Business Essential Skills Training (Best) Cluster Classes:

 

Coaching: Enhancing Employee Performance

September 24, 2008—St. Louis

 

Effective Workplace Communication

September 24, 2008—St. Louis

 

Difficult People: Success with Finesse

September 25, 2008—St. Louis

 

CPA's Guide to Improving Communication, Listening & Writing Skills

September 25, 2008—St. Louis

 

 

 

 

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Technology Tip of the Week

Provided by the MSCPA Information Technology Committee

 

In Excel, Locate Numbers Stored As Text

Numbers stored as text, or textual numbers, cause problems in Excel. For example, when the SUM function adds a range that includes text cells, it does not produce an error message, but nor does it sum the textual numbers: it simply treats the text cells as zero.

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To view recently archived issues of “ Technology Tip of the Week,” go to:

http://www.mocpa.org/Content/22269.aspx
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