May 2000

Marc Albaum, own account; Marvin Antman of Shanholt Glassman Hoffman Klein & Co. CPAs PC; Sheila Brandenberg of Grant Thornton LLP; Melvin Feit, own account; Bart Fooden of Reminick Aarons & Co. LLP, Alan D. Kahn of The AJK Financial Group; Barry Picker, own account; Edward A. Slott of E. Slott & Co. CPAs; Alan J. Straus, own account; Stephen P. Valenti, own account; and Marc Zand of Shapiro & Lobel LLP were featured in the New York Daily News regarding a tax hotline cosponsored by the newspaper and the NYSSCPA.

Traci Amidon and Michele Dickey of The Fagliarone Group; Drew Coleman and John Martin of Firley Moran Freer & Essa PC; Mary Giardino and Ted Sarenski of Dermody Burke & Brown PC; and Karen Hovey and Carolyn Lawless of Grimaldi and Associates CPAs PC were featured in the Post Standard (Syracuse) regarding a tax hotline cosponsored by the newspaper and the NYSSCPA Syracuse Chapter.

Stephen Bauer of Edward Issacs and Co. LLP; Barbara Bel, own account; Joseph Gaspari of Tax Plus; Dean Hottle II of BDO Seidman LLP; Laurence Keiser of Stern Keiser Panken & Wohl LLP; Ernest Nedder of Edward Issacs and Co. LLP; Jeffrey Schwartz of Blaustein and Co. LLP; Herbert Siegel, own account; Alan J. Straus, own account; and Benjamin Wetchler of BMW Management were featured in the Journal News (Westchester and Rockland counties) regarding a tax hotline cosponsored by the newspaper and the NYSSCPA Westchester Chapter.

David Bonagura of Ernst & Young LLP, Michael DeGennaro of Deloitte & Touche LLP, John Evans of Arthur Andersen LLP, Robert Goldfarb of Schoenfeld Mendelsohn Goldfarb LLP, Louis Grassi of Grassi & Co. CPAs PC, Leonard Koval of M.R. Weiser & Co., Douglas Kurz of Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP, Thomas Murray of Albrecht, Viggiano & Zureck & Co., Teddy Selinger of Margolin Winer & Evens LLP, Lawrence Waldman of KPMG LLP, Alan E. Weiner of Holtz Rubenstein & Co. LLP, and Jeffrey Weiner of Marcum & Kliegman LLP appeared in Newsday discussing changes in the accounting profession.

Anne Collucci of Kraft Foods and the NYSSCPA Westchester Chapter were highlighted in the Journal News regarding the chapter's public service activities with the Westchester Department of Social Services welfare-to-work program.

Michael DeGennaro of Deloitte & Touche LLP was featured in the Long Island Business News regarding his background with emerging technology companies.

Laurence Foster of KPMG LLP authored an article in Tax Hotline on amended returns.

George T. Foundotos of Coughlin Foundotos Cullen & Danowski LLP talked to the Long Island Business News about growth in consulting practices at accounting firms.

Barry Garfield of Holtz Rubenstein & Co. LLP was quoted in Business Week regarding auditing by Big Five and regional accounting firms.

Seymour Goldberg of Goldberg & Goldberg PC and Edward A. Slott of E. Slott & Co. CPAs were quoted in The Wall Street Journal on estate taxes.

Neville Grusd of Merchant Financial Corp. wrote an article for The Secured Lender entitled "Accountants and Lenders--Are They on the Same Wavelength?"

Joseph F. Hurley of Bonadio & Co. LLP discussed Section 529 state tuition programs in The New York Times, Business Week, Money, Mutual Funds, and a syndicated column by Jane Bryant Quinn.

Sidney Kess, own account, authored an article in Tax Hotline on last minute filing opportunities.

Edward Mendlowitz of Mendlowitz Weitsen LLP CPAs authored an article in Tax Hotline on retirement planning loopholes.

Marvin Michelman of Deloitte & Touche LLP authored an article in Tax Hotline on using arbitration to resolve tax disputes with the IRS.

Avery E. Neumark of Rosen Seymour Shapss Martin & Co. LLP authored an article in Tax Hotline on family aggregation rules for retirement funds.

Marilyn Pendergast of Urbach Kahn & Werlin PC was interviewed by Economista (Madrid, Spain) regarding the development of new independence standards by the International Federation of Accountants ethics committee, which Pendergast chairs.

David S. Rhine of BDO Seidman LLP authored an article in Tax Hotline on zero estate tax opportunities.