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2003
Max Block Award
Stuart
D. Buchalter and Kristin L. Yokomoto have won the 2003 Max
Block Distinguished Article Award, which each year recognizes
the most outstanding work published in The CPA Journal.
The award-winning article, “Audit Committees’
Responsibilities and Liability,” appeared in the March
2003 issue. The article presented the authors’ perspective
on fulfilling enhanced audit committee responsibilities and
minimizing the increased exposure to liability brought about
by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Stuart
D. Buchalter, LLB, of counsel to the Los Angeles–-based
law firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, P.C.,
died in January of this year. Kristin L. Yokomoto, JD, LLM,
an associate with Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger
at the time the article was published, now resides in Irvine,
Calif.
Honorable
mention is extended to “Tax Shelters Under Attack,”
by Raquel Meyer Alexander, Randall K. Hanson, and James
K. Smith (August 2003) in the area of Taxation; and to “Enron
and the Raptors,” by Mark P. Holtzman, Elizabeth Venuti,
and Robert Fonfeder (April 2003) in the area of General
Interest.
Max
Block (1902–1988) was a founding partner of Anchin,
Block & Anchin LLP. For more than half a century, he
applied his talents to growing that firm, the NYSSCPA, and
the profession. He is described by those who knew him as
a visionary whose ideas have formed the basis for many reporting
and practice management concepts in use today. Block was
managing editor of the NYSSCPA’s Journal
(now The CPA Journal) for 15 years. Each year since
1975, the Journal has recognized his contributions
and achievements by bestowing the Max Block Distinguished
Article Award to the most outstanding article of the past
year. Although the judging and selection procedures have
evolved over the years, the criteria have remained: “An
innovative and stimulating article which is of current significance
and which is likely to be of lasting value.”
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