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March! The sun is back and everyone from industry to public should be in full swing now! This is the time of year when being an accountant and living in Alaska work well together, unless you are an avid skier, especially this year. When the tax work is done; the audits…

Why am I a member of the Alaska Society of CPA’s? That is a question I poised to the Board of Directors at our first meeting last year. I asked each Director to write a two or three sentence response that would be published in our newsletter, one each month. Maybe you have…

Hope your holidays were merry and bright and you are looking forward to the New Year before us! Nomination requests for the Society’s new fiscal year went out, and nominations came in! Thank you to all who participated in providing nominations and a BIG THANK YOU to those…

http://notes4.state.ak.us/wa/postapps.nsf/1035bb3f29758c658925644300722fb3/fabd5b6625b5ccfb8925795200082b23?OpenDocument PROPOSED SLATE OF CANDIDATES FOR 2012-2013 Secretary The following is the proposed slate of candidates based on nominations from the membership…

What we have here today is a call to action. I hope you read, then I hope you respond. Even if you have responded before,the call for action is here again. This past October the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has rejected the AICPA's Blue Ribbon Panel's recommendation…

Three of the many benefits of our AKCPA 1. Professional networking or access to the "brain trust". No matter the situation with a client, and IRS audit, or another issue, someone within the society has likely come across it before and can share their knowledge,…

September! Fall, a time for reflection. Or at least one would hope so. It feels like there is never a good time to catch your breath and reflect. There is so much that could and should be done during the fall. This is the time to: 1. Review your client list, for those in…

From a technology standpoint, I have submitted my photo, wrote this meager article and sent it all via my ipad; connected to my office computer, all over the meager AT&T standard “E” data connection. I tried scamming some wireless from a parking lot but it just wasn’t…

What are we doing with these financial statements? It’s my business and I can’t even read these statements. Who cares what the fair market value of good will is. I don’t want to pay you to figure this out and report it in the footnotes, who cares? Sound familiar? Since…