November 1 , 2007
The Newspaper of the NYSSCPA
Vol. 10, No.19

What's Inside

Reader: Heed Cox on Muni Bond Market Oversight Revamp

Society Hotline Offers Members Live Aid

Best Practices in Practice Management

Gardening by Numbers

NYSSCPA Awards Program

NYSSCPA Hall of Fame Award

Assisting Clients in Succession Planning

Institute Forms CPA Distinguished Neutrals Panel

International Exchange

Reinstatement

NY Banking Sup't. Calls for Tighter Mortgage Lending
Standards

State Board Mulls Mobility

New York State Banking Department Chief of Regulatory Accounting and a member of the Society’s Banking and Financial Accounting Standards committees John McEnerney (left) moderated the “Regulatory Issues Update” during FAE’s 2007 Banking Conference on Sept. 25. Panel members (from left) are James C. Watkins, Homer C. Will and David S. Fredsall.

By Melissa Hoffmann Lajara

NEW YORK—Banking officials and regulators came together at FAE’s 25th annual Banking Conference to discuss some of the most pressing challenges in the industry, especially the subprime mortgage crisis, money laundering and risk management.

“Risk assessment and regulation were clearly the main topics of the conference,” said NYSSCPA Banking Committee Chair Howard Gluckman. “It’s mainly the environment we’re in, in the financial institution industry. Banks and their auditors are concerned … because of the volatility in the economy.”

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Business E-Filing on the Rise

By Melissa Hoffmann Lajara

NEW YORK—More than 800,000 of the nation’s businesses and corporations have electronically filed their tax returns so far this year, a record-breaking number, according to the IRS, which cited a 60 percent jump in this type of e-file tax return. Continue...

U.S. Treasury Department to Examine SOX Impacts on Auditors

By Melissa Hoffmann Lajara

NEW YORK—A 21-member public committee appointed last month by the leader of the United States Treasury Department will closely examine the impact of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the auditing profession. Continue...

CAMICO Announces New Employment Practices Liability Program

By Emily Franchi

With labor laws constantly proliferating and changing employees’ rights in the workplace, and with legal claims soaring, it’s sometimes difficult to know what you should and shouldn’t do as an employer. Continue...

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