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NYSSCPA Honors Edward A. Weinstein, CPA
With Its Distinguished Service Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lois Whitehead, Public Relations Manager
212-719-8405
lwhitehead@nysscpa.org

NEW YORK, NY, March 9, 2007 -- Edward A. Weinstein, CPA of New York City has been selected by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) to receive its Distinguished Service Award. This recognizes CPAs who have been NYSSCPA leaders and have given outstanding service to the accounting profession through publications, public service and other activities. Weinstein will receive the award at the organization’s Annual Dinner in May.

Weinstein, president of the NYSSCPA from 1980-81, joined its membership in 1962. He has served as a member of its Board of Directors, a trustee of its Foundation of Accounting Education (FAE) and as a member of its Executive, Budget Policy, Awards, Pension and Equal Opportunity and Professional Advancement Committees. He also received the Society’s Arthur J. Dixon Public Service Award (1992) and its Max Block Award for the outstanding article in The CPA Journal (1974).

In nominating Weinstein for this award, Stanley Goldstein, CPA said, “Before he was NYSSCPA President, he chaired the Committee on Equal Opportunity and Professional Advancement, a forerunner of many efforts to induce minorities (then including women) into our profession. His leadership skills, conduct of inspiring meetings and his tenacity resulted in some reasonable improvement in the two areas. As President, he worked diligently to raise the standards of our profession. In a period of swirling change, he maintained the principles which kept us all to the highest standards of our profession.”

Goldstein also recalls Weinstein’s role as Chair of the Crimestoppers Committee of the New York City Police Department. “This was a fine public service in which laymen, working with the police, would provide funds for anonymous tipsters which helped get felons off the streets quickly. Throughout his three year tenure, the committee functioned energetically and judiciously to the benefit of all New York City citizens but especially those in high crime districts.”

Weinstein was a Partner at Touche Ross & Co. and its successor, Deloitte & Touche for thirty years. He began as an audit partner and became managing partner of the Touche Ross Philadelphia office (175 professionals), and then returned to New York City as a Senior Partner. In New York City, he created and led a Target Marketing Program for the Tri-State Region which included fourteen high visibility non-audit companies and teams of six to twelve partners each and seven financial service companies nationally. As a senior partner, he was responsible for significant clients in the apparel manufacturing, computer services, banking, higher education and real estate industries. He also provided accounting and financial consulting and expertise in commercial litigation and arbitration which he continues now as a private consultant.

He taught numerous technical subjects for FAE seminars and became an Adjunct Professor of Accounting and Auditing at New York University. He later lectured regularly on accounting and auditing at the Columbia University School of Business and was a Distinguished Accounting Lecturer at the University of Alabama.

Weinstein also has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Apparel Manufacturers Association.

His civic activities with 25 major organizations include work with the New York City Policy Foundation, the 433 Sutton Corp., Sutton Place Synagogue, New York City School Construction Authority, Columbia College Alumni Association, the Mayors Fund for the City of New York, the New York City Board of Education, the Columbia College Board of Visitors, the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, Operation Independence, Operation Exodus (United Israel Appeal) and Delta ZBT Corp.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Columbia College of Columbia University and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania.

Weinstein and his wife, Sandra have two children, James and Ilene and five grandchildren.

About the NYSSCPA

Representing 30,000 CPAs, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) is the oldest and largest state accounting organization in the nation.

Incorporated in 1897, the Society is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to establish and maintain high standards of integrity, honor, and character among certified public accountants. Its members are CPAs working in public practice, industry, government and education in a state that serves as the home of Wall Street and major financial institutions.

The New York State Society of CPAs is located at 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. To learn more about the Society call 800-633-6320 or visit the Society’s website at www.nysscpa.org.