Banking Conference Focuses on Forensic Accounting

Corporate Misconduct Panel Tackles Liability

New York Initiates Tax Shelter Amnesty Program

QEPC Outlines Changes to Peer Review

2004–2005 NYSSCPA Annual Report

By Alan Schmelkin, Managing Director of Operations

NEW YORK—At their Sept. 14 meeting, the trustees of the Foundation for Accounting Education discussed and took action on several key issues, including the extension of and changes to the Pay One Price (POP) program for volume CPE purchases and expansion of the Foundation’s scholarship program. Continue...

By Forrest Whitesides

New York—If there’s one thing the accounting profession can take away from the widespread destruction of Katrina, it’s that you can’t be too careful when it comes to client data redundancy. Many accountants, architects, medical professionals and lawyers, among others, in the Gulf Coast were scrambling to recover the tons of paper files and gigabytes of computer data destroyed in America’s worst-ever natural disaster. Continue...

By Arthur Bloom, President, FAE Board of Trustees

The Foundation for Accounting Education’s mission is to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skill by providing members of the Society with cost-effective, high-quality, market-driven educational services, and that’s something that FAE does very well. But before we get caught up patting ourselves on the back, we need to ask an important question: Is FAE all that it can be? Continue...