August 1999

CPA-Musicians Perform at Show and Annual Conference

CPAs express their varied talents not only with debits and credits but also by creating original music with accounting themes. Attendees at the 1999 CPAs' Finance, Business and Technology Show and Conference and the NYSSCPA Annual Conference received an added bonus--a performance by Society members Peter Frank and Eric Cohen of their parody, "That Thing Called Y2K."

The two CPAs were featured speakers at the show's technology day. True to their commitment to all things hi-tech, they collaborated on the song through e-mail. Cohen, who plays banjo and sings, wrote the lyrics and music, which he sent electronically to Frank, who also performs professionally in a country and western band, The D.C. Vers. Frank then recorded "That Thing Called Y2K," digitized it, and sent it back in a message to Cohen.