Difficult tax season sends accountants in search of fun
With the April 15 deadline just passed, tax accountants at firms throughout the Baltimore area are looking for an outlet that allows them to maintain their sanity.
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Scandals create long-term job security for CPAs
While the financial finagling at Enron, WorldCom and other corporations may have tarnished the accounting profession's image, those same scandals are creating long-term job security for CPAs throughout corporate America, federal analysts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded.
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Lessons from 'The Apprentice'
Learn — from the triumphs and mistakes of the participants as well as from the mogul himself — how to survive in the corporate jungle.
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Got a question only a CPA can answer?
More than 160 TCPA members venture into the Mentor Center each month to pose questions about the CPA career, the educational requirements, the exam or what it's like to be a CPA. Visit the Mentor Center at www.tomorrowscpa.org/members/mentors.htm. Remember, it's e-mail only!
Our CPA speakers are tops!
"Dear Mr. Alper (CPA Alan Alper),
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge about accounting and business with us on February 9th. It was comforting for us to see how 'at ease' you were answering our many questions. Your enthusiasm for your work encourages us to seek the same satisfaction when we become employed later in life. You have given us a lot to think about."
— The accounting class at Cardinal Gibbons School
Grammar lessons for pop stars
While the entertainers get rich, their bad rhymes, vapid lyrics and outright inexcusable grammar assault our eardrums and get stuck in our heads like so many wads of gum under the study hall desk.
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Accounting word of the week: C
Cost accounting: Procedures used for rationally classifying, recording and allocating current or predicted costs that relate to a certain product or production process. For more definitions, go to:
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Which SAT will you take?
As if the college admissions process weren't nerve-racking enough, the high school Class of 2006 will have the unique opportunity to carry an additional burden: deciding whether to take the current version of the SAT, the new one being introduced next year — or both.
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Build your business savvy
Maybe you haven't brokered any multi-billion-dollar mergers yet, but you're probably already doing things every day that reveal your business savvy. Continuing to exercise these skills can really mean a lot as you think about college and everything that follows. See how many of these savvy-building activities you're already doing.
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skillsinaction/savvy.asp
TCPA member profile
Meet Brenda Howell of Southern Management Corp.
Hobbies: Reading and doing word puzzles.
Favorite movie: "Kill Bill, Vol. I"
Why I want to be a CPA: I would like to go all the way as an auditor. I need a license to be able to sign off on audit reports.
Favorite course: Auditing
Least favorite course: Cost Accounting
What people say when I tell them my career choice: "Yes, because you love numbers, fact-finding and are very detail-oriented."
Financial literacy improves among nation's high school students
A nationwide survey reveals that for the first time since 1997, high school students are reversing declining scores and demonstrating increased aptitude and ability to manage financial resources such as credit cards, insurance, retirement funds and savings accounts.
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Run a little, help a lot
Run with CPAs! Register now for the annual Maryland Association of CPAs 1040K Run and 1040EZ Fun Walk on Saturday, May 1. This is a 5-kilometer run and 1-mile fun walk at Rash Field in Baltimore. Registration is only $20 before April 15. Proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity. For more information, or to register, go to www.macpa.org/race/index.htm.
And hey, need community service hours? Then lend MACPA a hand the morning of the race. Contact Laura Dorsey at laura@macpa.org or (410) 296-6255, ext. 240 for more information.
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