December 15, 2007
The Newspaper of the NYSSCPA
Vol. 10, No.22

What's Inside

Critical Database Concepts for Modern CPAs

How to Help Clients Recover Stock Market Losses

GASB Endowments Rule Requires Fair Value Reporting

Tax Updates Dished Up at Breakfast Conference

AICPA Approves NYSSCPA Peer Review Program

Tax Law Behind the Headline

SEC to Allow Foreign Issuers to File in IFRS

Restaurant & Hospitality Breakfast Conference

David W. Henion, of Forte Capital LLC, explains the ins and outs of retirement plans to Restaurant & Hospitality Breakfast Conference attendees on Nov. 7.

By Colleen Lutolf

NEW YORK—The road to a single global financial accounting standard may be getting shorter, but some opponents of a recent SEC ruling are left wondering why what they think should be a multiyear project is moving forward in just a few months.

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Tax Preparers Face Broader IRC 6694 Penalties

By Robert L. Goldstein, CPA, and William R. Lalli, CPA, NYSSCPA Tax Policy Manager

NEW YORK—With new tax legislation may come unwelcome surprises for tax practitioners. One such case is with the Small Business and Work Opportunities Tax Act of 2007. Continue...

T.J. Maxx and Identity Theft: The Never-Ending Story

By Steven W. Teppler, JD

Shoppers who made purchases at designer discount chains like T.J. Maxx and Marshalls between July 2005 and December 2006 may have thought they were getting a bargain, but their credit cards weren’t the only things getting swiped at the checkout counter. Continue...

President's Commentary

Few people realize that tax services rendered by a New York state–licensed CPA are not supervised by state regulators (the Board of Regents) as they are in other states—and that’s not all. Continue...

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BROOKLYN
Message from the President
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Message from the President

QUEENS
Q&A With Our New YCPA Chair
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ROCKLAND
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SUFFOLK

Message from the Past President

WESTCHESTER
Message from the Past President
UPFRONT ARTICLE
In the Spirit of the Season

 


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