The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) named
Graham Ward its president for a two-year term. IFAC represents 157
accountancy bodies and 2.5 million accountants around the world.
Two JofA editorial advisers earned honors for
their professional achievements. Peggy Scott, CPA, was selected by the
Institute of Management Accountants and Robert Half and Associates as
the 2004 National Financial Executive of the Year. Scott, executive
vice-president and chief financial officer of Pan-American Life in New
Orleans, is the first woman to earn the award, which recognized her
for leading the redesign of Pan-American’s financial department,
processes and systems, which do business in multiple currencies and
languages. Lyne Noella, chief marketing officer at Stonefield
Josephson in California, won the Outstanding Marketing Initiative
Award from the Leading Edge Alliance—a group of independently owned
accounting and consulting firms—for launching a plan that increased
the firm’s share of the public sector market and boosted its
visibility.
The SEC named Julie A. Erhardt, CPA, its deputy chief
accountant. With others in the Office of the Chief Accountant, she
will be responsible for resolving accounting and auditing issues,
rulemaking projects, and oversight of private-sector accounting
standard-setting and auditor regulation. Erhardt is a former partner
of Arthur Andersen LLP.
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Top 10 Reasons to Become a
CPA The Journal of Accountancy will celebrate its 100th birthday in October 2005, and the staff is planning a special issue to commemorate this achievement. The issue will include a humorous list, “Top 10 Reasons to Become a CPA”—a fond look at some of the more lighthearted motivations for joining the accounting profession. We’d like to invite you to join in the celebration by submitting your own witty observations on why it’s great to be a CPA. Winners get a specially bound copy of the centennial issue and bragging rights. Please send your submissions no later than March 1 via e-mail to joaed@aicpa.org or regular mail to Journal of Accountancy, Attn: Top 10 List, Harborside Financial Center, 201 Plaza Three, Jersey City, NJ 07311. |
CPAs employed in public accounting, private industry or
government are encouraged to participate in a brief online survey (
http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/kjsmith3/ ) gathering information
to improve the quality of life for members of the profession. To log
on, enter username kjsurvey3 and password stress54.
Information on the survey is available from Kenneth J. Smith
(410-548-5563;
kjsmith@salisbury.edu ) a professor in the department of
accounting and legal studies of Salisbury University in Maryland.
The AICPA has adopted a new tag line—“America Counts on
CPAs”—to accompany the CPA logo wherever it is displayed. Access it
online at
www.aicpa.org/cpamarketing by logging in as user
cpamarketing with password toolkit1! Use of its
predecessor, “Never Underestimate the Value,” has been discontinued.
Questions can be e-mailed to cchinnici@aicpa.org .
In response to information gathered from quarterly
customer surveys and site usability testing, CPA2Biz Inc., the AICPA’s
marketing and technology provider, unveiled a new home page at its Web
site ( www.cpa2biz.com ), which
is a key resource for more than 200,000 CPAs and financial
professionals. 
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Educator Award Nominations
Sought The AICPA invites state CPA societies and individuals to nominate an accounting educator for the 2005 AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Education Award (www.aicpa.org/members/div/career/edu/laaea.htm). The award recognizes full-time college accounting educators for excellence in teaching and national prominence in the accounting profession. Nominations are due February 1. |
