2017 - Page 5 of 20 - Journal of Accountancy

The magazines

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Employee discount plans

Employers must follow complex rules to exclude employee discounts from taxable income.

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How accounting programs can help students pass the CPA Exam

The CPA Candidate Success Research Project identified best practices that schools employ to help students achieve success.

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AICPA proposes new framework

A valuation credential foundation is set.

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Scholarship covers estate planning conference costs for emerging CPA

Shane Mason, tax supervisor at Raich Ende Malter & Co. LLP in New York City, received the 2017 P. Thomas Austin Personal Financial Planning Division Scholarship.

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Feature on psychology and judgment wins best article award

John Lauck, an assistant professor of accounting at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La., received the JofA’s Lawler Award for the best article of 2016.

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One way CPAs give back: The Career Fair Skills Workshop at North Carolina A&T

CPAs volunteer to help students develop the interviewing and résumé-writing skills they need to apply for accounting jobs.

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Tax planning for Millennials

An underserved market awaits CPAs attuned to younger taxpayers’ perspectives.

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Inspiring the next generation: How CPAs can contribute on campus

Opportunities abound for CPAs to become involved on campus, from teaching to guest-speaking to serving on boards or advisory councils. Learn how you can help accounting students succeed.

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What’s your fraud IQ?

Do you know how fraud investigations work? Do you understand the scope, language, and purpose of such engagements? Test your knowledge in this month’s quiz.

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Microsoft Excel: How to link text boxes to data cells

Yes, it is possible to link the contents of a text box in Excel to data in a cell.

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Workshop graduates hone networking skills and prep for CPA Exam

Ninety-eight students graduated from the AICPA 2017 Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop (ASLW), a program designed to strengthen ethnic-minority students’ professional and networking skills, and help them prepare for the CPA Exam.

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Expanding your app-titude: When I Work makes shift scheduling less of a chore

A monthly look at apps and websites that can make the CPA’s job and life better.

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Incentivizing accounting professors to get their CPAs

This infographic looks at obstacles accounting faculty face in obtaining and keeping their CPAs.

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IRS provides simplified method for late portability elections

Previously, since 2014, an extension of time to claim the deceased spousal unused amount could be obtained only by a letter ruling request.

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Microsoft Office: Ways to master Excel and Word on your own

Here’s a list of proven methods for mastering Word and Excel on your own.

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Sprinkle honored for long-term service in PFP

Scott Sprinkle, co-founder and partner of Sprinkle Financial Consultants LLC and Sprinkle & Associates LLC in Denver, received the AICPA 2016 Personal Financial Planning Distinguished Service Award.

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A new discipline for tax

The emerging discipline of tax information and operations management could change the role of tax professionals from one focused on compliance to one essential to creating value.

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Success with volunteers

Not-for-profits can follow these tips to help volunteers give them a boost.

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Michael Fehrman, CPA

Providing the correct answers to complex questions requires technical competence and scrupulous honesty, according to Michael Fehrman, CPA, head of the Accounting Policy and Advisory Group–Americas at Deutsche Bank.

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Retiring? Stay involved with the profession as an executive-in-residence

As executives-in-residence, retired CPAs have an opportunity to bring years of experience to college campuses by lecturing, mentoring, advising on curriculum, and much more.