March 15, 2006
The Newspaper of the NYSSCPA
Vol. 9, No.5

What's Inside

California 'Practice Privilege' To Be Delayed Until 2011

Internal Auditors To Get External Assessments

The Clock Is Ticking for Elderly Investment Recovery

War Story: Divorcing Couple's Taxes, Conflict of Inheritance

Improving Your Audits with Excel-Based Analysis Techniques

GASB Proposes New Pollution Remediation Standards

PCAOB, SEC To Hold SOX Roundtable

IRS Describes Reorganization, Solicits Feedback at Annual Liaison
Meeting

IRS Describes Reorganization, Solicits Feedback at Annual Liaison Meeting

Barbara Cavell, from the IRS’s Brookhaven campus, listened to concerns from NYSSCPA members at the Jan. 25 liaison meeting between the IRS and the Society’s Relations with the IRS Committee.

By Anthony H. Sarmiento, Associate Editor, The CPA Journal

NEW YORK—The Society’s Relations with the Internal Revenue Service Committee, chaired by David Sands, met with representatives from the IRS during its annual Liaison Meeting, held at the IRS offices at 290 Broadway on Jan. 25. The program was developed by Subcommittee Chair Gerard Borod and Joseph Lewandoski, IRS Senior Stakeholder Liaison.

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Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of PCAOB

By Stephanie R. Myers

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Free-market-advocate political action committee the Free Enterprise Fund (FEF) and Brad Beckstead, managing partner of Nevada accounting firm Beckstead and Watts LLP, last month filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Continue...

Accountancy Reform Bill Sent to Senate Floor

By Forrest Whitesides

NEW YORK—An accounting reform bill sponsored by New York State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle (R–Port Jefferson) last month was sent from the Senate Higher Education Committee to the Senate floor. Continue...

President's Message

On Jan. 1, existing state finance laws that govern the solicitation of government procurement contracts were amended in a broader effort to curb unregulated lobbying. Continue...

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WESTCHESTER
Journal News Tax Hotline Helps Taxpayers

 


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