October 2001 Articles

President's Commentary

Our lives as Americans have changed irrevocably. (Article)

AICPA Council Renews Support for Global Credential Amidst Parliamentary Chaos

The Council of the American Institute of CPAs passed a resolution supporting the creation of a new global business credential in a meeting characterized by confusion and parliamentary chaos, but paving the way to a membership vote that will decide the fate of the controversial designation. (Article)

Board Issues Resolution on Global Credential

In advance of the American Institute of CPAs’ Council meeting held on Oct. 21-23 to discuss the proposed global, interdisciplinary credential (see above story), the Board of Directors for the New York State Society of CPAs in September drafted a resolution opposing the controversial designation. (Article)

NYSSCPA Members Volunteer to Assist WTC Victims

In an effort to help the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy of Sept. 11, the New York State Society of CPAs is spearheading a volunteer effort to provide business recovery advice and personal financial planning to those individuals and businesses directly affected by the attack. (Article)

Thinking Outside the Box

There’s an old joke CPAs like to tell, and it goes like this: “Why did the auditor cross the road?” “Because he did it last year.” (Article)

The Glass Slipper

If accounting firms were anthills, recruitment—in the ecological sense of the word—would be a simple matter of reproduction. (Article)

Changing Lives, One Return at a Tim

When Adolfo Alvarado walked into the library with a pencil and a 1040 he couldn’t have imagined he was going to change someone’s life. (Article)

School-Profession Link Could Aid in Recruiting New CPAs

Accountants ranked last among 17 professions that had “very great prestige,” according to a recent survey of 1,000 adults by the Harris Poll—trailing lawyers, police officers and union leaders. (Article)

Impact of the 150-Hour Requirement: The Jury Is Still Out

In the words of former Montclair State University accounting student Adolfo Alvarado, “freshmen don’t have much interest in majors.” (Article)

Four Society Members Who Made a Difference

Since the founding of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants in 1897, many of its members have provided public leadership in the world of accounting and finance. (Article)

Accounting Professors Receive High Marks from Students

They’re the ones who hand out the grades. They teach everything from the basics of accounting to management, but it’s how they teach and, more importantly, who they are that makes them good accounting professors. (Article)

Accounting Education Q & As (Article)

Students Get Feet Wet in Lending a Hand

Christian Perkins faced her most memorable tax cases as a senior accounting major at Ithaca College. (Article)

Making the Grade: A Q&A with Accounting Graduate Denise Murillo (Article)

The Successful CPA

Finding a job is hard enough, but standing out from your professional peers is even more difficult. (Article)

Testing the Limits

These days, accounting is considered an old profession. In comparison with the high salaries and commissions to be earned in the stock market, deciding to become a CPA might even require a leap of faith. (Article)

TechCenter

When was the last time you asked someone if they use the Internet? Chances are, not recently. At this point in the technology timeline, most of us just take it for granted that the majority of our friends and coworkers get online. (Article)

BDO Seidman Sues AICPA over Web Portal

The American Institute of CPAs used its nationwide control of the accounting profession, access to state society databases and money from its membership dues to create a monopoly of services through its web portal, CPA2Biz, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. (Article)

Computer Systems Security in an Internet Age— Protecting Your Network, Part One

The most publicized threat facing computer systems security is the hacker. (Article)

An Overview of Independence Rule Modernization

The American Institute of CPAs adopted significant revisions to the Code of Professional Conduct last August. (Article)

Mason Receives Exemplar Award

Eli Mason received the Accounting Exemplar Award for notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice at an induction ceremony at the American Accounting Association annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga., held Aug. 12-15 of this year. (Article)

NYSSCPA’s Fuel Savings Program Makes for a Cozy and Affordable Winter

The New York State Society of CPAs’ HEAT, USA fuel savings program offers substantial savings on heating oil this winter. (Article)