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 February
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Vol.
13, No. 2
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| Stimulus ‘Cliff’ Poses
Fiscal Problems for Schools |
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By
CARA PATTERSON,
Trusted Professional Correspondent
NEW YORK—Federal stimulus aid has helped cushion
schools from the economy’s blow, but with those funds
drying up in the 2011/12 fiscal year, problems for New
York school districts are likely in store, said members
of the NYSSCPA’s Public Schools Committee.
A double
whammy of reduced state aid and school budget caps could
hit schools in the next few years, said Ernest P. Smith,
the committee’s chair.
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IRS
Proposes Tax Return Preparer Registration |
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By MELISSA HOFFMANN
LAJARA,
Trusted Professional Staff
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YORK—The
IRS’s New Year’s resolution: sweeping new regulations
for return preparers. The agency has announced a plan to
move forward with new regulations for non-CPA tax practitioners
that would require that they register, take tests and earn
continuing education. Continue...
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| AICPA
Chair Harris Steers Institute Toward Globalization |
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By MELISSA HOFFMANN
LAJARA, Trusted Professional Staff
When Robert H. Harris graduated from high school, he was
faced with two options: study oceanography and pay for college
himself, or go to business school and have his education
funded by dad. Continue...
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| President’s
Commentary |
When
you think of an individual who follows a code of honor,
whom do you think about? I think of a person who seems,
because he or she lives by a code—a higher set of
standards, a set of rules stricter than your everyday person
has to follow—more admirable, ethical, and the work
they do a little more important. Continue...
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