If you’re a CPA and you earned your license within the last six decades, you’ve probably learned a thing or two from Sidney Kess, the 2015 winner of the NYSSCPA’s Dr. Emanuel Saxe Outstanding CPA in Education Award. The Brooklyn native, who celebrated his 56th year as an NYSSCPA member this February, has been a trusted guide for accountants since 1952, teaching review courses, seminars and conferences, and producing audio cassettes, newsletters and books.

NYSSCPA members will get a chance to meet and mingle with one of television's most-watched political commentators and former White House press secretary, Dana Perino, at the NYSSCPA's 118th Annual Dinner on May 14 at the Eventi Hotel in Midtown.

As busy season comes to a close, many practitioners will begin preparing to meet with clients and discuss ideas for improvements identified during the past audit season. This is a great time to share value-added suggestions for enhancing operations, which, especially in the case of a nonpublic client, may result in additional business opportunities for the firm. 

An anonymous NYSSCPA member has offered to personally donate $10,000 to the Foundation for Accounting Education’s #CarryItForward campaign, but there’s a catch—he is challenging his fellow NYSSCPA members to live up to Dave’s example and raise a total of $10,000 by 6 p.m., May 14, in order to meet his matching gift. Our generous donor will be recognized that evening, at the NYSSCPA’s Annual Election Meeting and Dinner, at the Eventi Hotel in New York City. 

In our latest roundtable, CPAs speak candidly about the alarm bells that signal something is awry in an audit.