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| April 18, 2008 Issue 16 | |||||
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Help Save a life - Join
the Race for the Cure® Today!
Join the MACPA team as we race to fight breast cancer at the
17th Annual Komen Detroit Race for the Cure®. The Race will be on Saturday, May 31
beginning at Comerica Park in Detroit. This is the MACPA's fifth year
participating in the Race. It is easy to
register for the Race as a member of the MACPA team. For more
information, please contact Nicole
Shepard at 248.267.3700.
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Mobility Legislation
Increases Presence
Before the clock struck midnight on April 7, ending their legislative session,
Maryland became the 19th state to pass mobility legislation consistent with the
substantial equivalency provisions in the UAA, Fifth Edition. Maryland now joins
Kentucky as they wait for gubernatorial signatures. In other mobility action,
Georgia passed a mobility provision April 4, which will give licensees the
ability to enter Georgia, with no notice, from other states that have enacted
Mobility provisions. Michigan is one of 15 states that have mobility legislation pending: Alabama,
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Michigan’s
legislation is currently in House committee. For more updates and information on
CPA License Mobility please visit the MACPA
web site.
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Make Sure You and Your
Students Stay Current on the Issues Affecting the Accounting Profession
Take the latest information about accounting
back to your students or bring your students with you to the
Spring Members Advisory Forum on May 13 at the Lansing Center in Lansing. Educator and student
members are invited to attend at no charge. Barry Melancon, president and
CEO of the AICPA, will give you must-know information about the accounting
profession from a national perspective. Tom Hoisington, president, Public
Affairs Associates, Inc., will talk about the legislative activities of our state’s
government, including CPA License Mobility. Plus, learn about XBRL and why
it is so important to the future of the profession. To register, go
online and enter in the promotional code SRACCOMP
during the checkout process. If you have a friend or colleague who is not a member, but would
like to attend the Forum, please contact David Johnson at 248.267.3700.
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Thank You For Your
Dedication to the Future of the Profession
The Michigan Accountancy Foundation (MAF) works rigorously to increase the
number of students pursuing an accounting career each year. Without the help of
dedicated educators, such as yourself, the Foundation would not be able to meet
this goal. Thanks to your support and encouragement, the MAF was able to
award 30 accounting students with Fifth/Graduate Year Scholarships in 2008. Talking to students about the
importance of accounting and encouraging them to apply for this scholarship
gives great reassurance that the professional will continue to grow. To see a
list of all the MAF Fifth/Graduate Year Scholarship recipients please visit the
web
site. Once again, thank you for all your support!
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Employment Trend:
Intern First, Then Full-Time Hire
Increasingly, employers are looking to their
internship programs to find new employees, according to results of a new
survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
Results of NACE’s
2008 Experiential Education Survey show that emphasis on hiring from an
intern program is growing. Employers reported that nearly 36 percent of the
new college graduates they hired from the Class of 2007 came from their own
internship programs, up from 30 percent from the Class of 2005. Survey
findings also indicate that interns who become full-time hires are more
likely to stick with the organization than their co-workers who didn’t go
through the program.
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