It’s a great time to be a CPA!

You'll hear just how great it is if you attend this year’s Spring Members Advisory Forum.

Forum attendees will hear how CPA recruitment efforts are making a substantial impact on accounting enrollment; how enhancements to state and national image efforts have proven successful according to recent polling; and how Michigan legislative efforts have increased protection of the public interest and the CPA.

The event takes place Wednesday, May 10, from
8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the Lansing Center in Lansing. Attendees receive five general CPE credits and the opportunity for two ethics sessions offered as optional
CPE courses following the program.

Featured speakers:

• Barry Melancon, AICPA president and CEO, will highlight critical issues impacting our profession, including advocacy and outreach, audit quality and peer review and private company financial reporting.
• Suzanne Jolicoeur, Licensing Administrator, Michigan State Board of Accountancy, will address recently passed Michigan Accountancy Reform legislation that, among other things, provides whistleblower protection to licensed CPAs and individuals employed by licensed CPAs, requires mandatory enrollment in a practice monitoring program and increases enforcement of unlicensed activity or “copycat CPAs.”
• Steve Epstein, Michigan Accountancy Foundation President, will tell you about the great success the Foundation has had in providing scholarships to fifth/graduate students and the effects their initiatives have on future CPAs.
• John Pridnia, MACPA board member and chair of the Political Action Committee (PAC) Board, will provide an update on the profound work of the Association’s PAC in the recent legislation that has passed as well as their work in other legislation.
• Tom Hoisington, president of PAA Advisory, will share developments on state and federal legislative and political news.
• Peggy Dzierzawski, MACPA President and CEO, will provide an MACPA update that will feature highlights on media and image enhancement successes; student recruitment efforts and public service initiatives.  

Mark your calendar and watch for more details on the
Spring Members Advisory Forum! For more information, contact the MACPA CPE Department at 248.267.3700 or toll-free in Michigan at 888.877.4273.

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