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| September 2004 | The
Monthly Newspaper of the NYSSCPA |
Vol.
7, No.12 |
| First Black Female CPA in N.Y. Celebrates 50 Years in Profession |
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New York’s first black female CPA lives in Queens. She does yoga, travels and volunteers for the AARP as a tax counselor during tax season. On Sept. 16, she’ll celebrate 50 years as a certified public accountant. Bernadine Coles Gines was certified in 1954, embarking on what would not prove to be the easiest career path for a black woman at that time. Even after she moved to New York to get the M.B.A. that Virginia would not allow her, she, like all black men and women trying to enter the field then, was met with resistance. “I sent letter after letter from the YWCA in Harlem, where I lived, but not one person replied,” Gines said. “When I got married and moved to Queens, I got a few more responses with that address.” |
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| Taxing Times |
| NEW YORK—Existing efforts to reform the alternative minimum tax (AMT) have been characterized by some observers as a Band-Aid approach to fixing an endemic problem. There currently are at least three bills in the House of Representatives aiming to correct problems with the AMT, which was passed into law more than 33 years ago. Continue... |
| Member Ballot Needed for 2004 - 2005 Nominating Committee |
By Raymond M. Nowicki, NYSSCPA Secretary All CPA members
of the Society will receive a ballot in late August to determine
who will serve on the 2004–2005 Nominating Committee. To be
counted, the ballots must be returned by Sept. 27 to Prompt Mailers,
the independent ballot-counting agency specified on the ballot.
The results of the election will be announced via an e-mail to the
entire membership and in the November issue of The Trusted Professional.
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| President's Commentary |
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I am writing to you after the Society’s fourth annual Leadership Conference at the Sagamore Hotel on Lake George. Based on feedback I received, the participants found the conference informative and beneficial, exchanging a number of ideas that will result in a successful year at the committee and chapter levels. Continue... |
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