Take a look at our new look!
Your Web site, www.tomorrowscpa.org, has been redesigned to make navigation easier. We've also added new sections for high school students and CPA candidates, comments from real CPAs, and a fun new section called TCPA at Work and Play. All this plus members-only features like the Chat Room and the Mentor Center. Visit www.tomorrowscpa.org today.
Giuliani, E&Y team up to stop hackers
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm and the accounting firm Ernst & Young have joined forces to help companies guard against computer hackers.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20031016/
wr_nm/tech_security_giuliani_dc
Remaking the grade
Colleges devise formulas to interpret applicants' high-school GPAs.
www.wsjclassroomedition.com/archive/
03oct/educ_gpa.htm
Study break
Virtual bubble wrap: If you like popping real bubble wrap, try this online version.
snapbubbles.com
From bean counter to business strategist: The changing role of the accountant
Number-crunchers no more, today's accountants have evolved into providers of insight on finance, technology and strategy.
www.cpa2biz.com/News/Selected+Features/
The+changing+role+of+the+accountant.htm
CPA career: International accounting
How would you like to make the entire world your personal office?
www.startheregoplaces.com/cpastoday/careeropps/
specialties/internationalaccting.asp
A hearty welcome ...
... to new TCPA member Dean S. Fuller Jr., Hereford High School. Thanks so much for joining Tomorrow's CPA.
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CPA career awareness
Our CPA speakers visited more than 75 Maryland high schools last year and reached more than 4,000 students. Let's top that record this year. Tell your business or accounting teacher, or your school career counselor, that you want to learn more about the CPA career. Have them contact Richard Rabicoff at publicrelations@macpa.org.
Accounting word of the week: C
Compilation: Presentation of financial statement data without the accountant's assurance as to conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Find more definitions here:
www.startheregoplaces.com/resourcecenter/
glossary.asp
Chat room logs 52 ... and nobody got bounced
Last month 52 TCPA members visited our chat room to exchange job hunting tips, share career ideas, poke fun at accounting teachers, or just gab. Why not check it out? Members only go to www.tomorrowscpa.org/members/chat.html.
Study accounting in college!
For a list of Maryland colleges and universities with accounting programs and community colleges with accounting courses, go to www.tomorrowscpa.org/highschool/college.html.
Got a question only a CPA can answer?
Nearly 140 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!
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