What is your Association doing for you? The MACPA offers you the tools, benefits and resources you need most to succeed both personally and professionally. The benefits you get from the MACPA help you to build relationships, develop skills, access cutting-edge information, make a difference through community service and promote your business through the MACPA web site.

Build Relationships
With more than 16,000 members, the MACPA is your connection to peers, partners, mentors and friends. Being a member provides exposure to other specialists who can be a catalyst for your career enhancement. Take advantage of the following opportunities:

• Exclusive Events lending exposure to national and statewide top accounting professionals
• Monthly Meeting Groups connecting you with peers in your area
• Educational Conferences and Seminars where you meet peers in your areas of practice
• Outreach Programs – use your skills to help the community while forming friendships with fellow member volunteers
• Task Force Involvement – work with your peers to make a significant impact on the profession

Develop Vital Skills
Surpass today’s competition by enhancing your skills. The MACPA offers exemplary educational opportunities with multiple offerings annually on specialized topics in convenient formats:

• More than 350 conferences and seminars
• Webinars
• Lunch & Learns
• Roundtables
• Self Study

Access Cutting-Edge Information
You are a leader in your profession…and it is our job to provide you with resources and tools to ensure your continued success. The MACPA can be your number one source for information through tools such as:

• A user-friendly, customizable web site with special features for various areas of interest
• A 40-member staff to assist you
• Electronic Publications including Leaders’ Edge,
  E-News and the award-winning The Business Edge

Make a Difference
As an accounting professional you have expertise that allows you to reach out to the community in a unique way. The MACPA outreach programs help you achieve your personal goal of assisting in your community. MACPA members can participate in volunteer programs such as:

• Tax assistance for low-income individuals
• MACPA Accounting Blitzes that introduce business concepts to school children
• Race for the Cure^® fundraiser for cancer research
• Legislative Keyperson Program informing legislators about financial issues and concerns of the profession
• Speakers Bureau providing CPAs to speak in communities and classrooms

Promote Your Business on the MACPA Web Site
Use the CPA Referral Program to:

• Highlight your services to the community – members and non-members
• Generate new business
• Find a specialist for your own needs

Where Member Savings Add Up
You will find that your MACPA membership pays for itself. With special member pricing for most CPE events, you will save on almost every CPE course you attend with the MACPA. You can also save money with special member prices on a variety of personal and professional products and services including:

• Insurance
• Telecommunications services
• Payroll processing
• Office supplies
• Shipping programs

For more information about these and other member benefits, contact the MACPA Member Services Department at 248.267.3700 or visit the web site.

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