These are extraordinary times with extraordinary challenges. We fear for our safety and the safety of those we love, for the stability of our country…
Making Progress in Albany on Electronic Signatures
Publisher’s Column
In many things, New York is a recognized leader, standing at the forefront of finance, culture, and innovation. Yet it remains behind in terms of…
CPA Licensing and Unintended Consequences
Publisher’s Column
Professional licensing has always been what makes a CPA a CPA. Those three simple letters stand for years of dedicated study, rigorous testing, extensive experience,…
“Investment” can mean cultivating capital of many kinds—money, time, effort, energy—with the expectation of a positive result. As we approach the third annual Moynihan Scholarship…
The idea that CPA firms would allow non-CPAs to own a minority stake in a CPA firm and then refer to these non-licensees as “partners”…
A Tax Reform Law for Our New Normal
Publisher’s Column
In The CPA Journal's December 1986 issue, authors Stanley Rier and Leonard Goodman summed up their analysis of how that year's major tax reform bill would…
Tax season is only two months away, and while there is much uncertainty surrounding the probability of real federal tax reform in the New Year,…
It's a great time to be a CPA firm. So says Marc Rosenberg in his foreword to the 2017 Rosenberg Survey. The annual practice management…
The board of directors of a nonprofit organization has three primary legal fiduciary duties: duty of care, duty of loyalty, and duty of obedience. Here…
In 2015, the NYSSCPA leadership established the Moynihan Fund as a way to recognize the contributions of recently deceased past president David J. Moynihan. The…
For many years, New York State Society members who also serve on AICPA Council have participated in the institute's biannual Capitol Hill visits in Washington,…
A year ago at this time, we were putting the final touches on the inaugural Moynihan Fund Gala, hoping that if we transformed our staid…
If you ask most of the NYSSCPA's committee members about our government affairs program, they may not realize something—that they're a major part of it.…
I started working for the NYSSCPA in the 1980s, when staffing a committee meeting meant I was likely the only woman in the room. Even…
So much has been written about generational tensions between baby boomer bosses and the millennials they're trying to attract and retain—their differing points of view…
Some people love him. Some people hate him. Regardless of what anyone feels about him, New York City real estate mogul and TV reality show…
Good times are here again. At least, it looks like “good times,” according to the recent release of the 2016 Rosenberg Survey, one of the…
The NYSSCPA Board of Directors voted at its September meeting to set the Society's legislative agenda. The Society Government Relations staff will now use this…
It's been seven years since state law-makers and regulators overhauled the rules that regulate the CPA profession in New York, expanding the scope of practice…
In March, I announced to CPA Journal readers that the New York State Society's 119th Annual Dinner would be a bit different this year—a different…
On May 6 in New York City, what I believe will be viewed as an historic event was held by the Foundation for Accounting Education…
I've written and talked at length, in this column and in discussions with accounting thought leaders across the country, about the transformation taking place at…
Even if you're not a history buff, it's hard to walk to the NYSSCPA's Wall Street offices and not be wowed by a sense of…
One hundred and eighteen years ago, the New York State Society of CPAs held its first annual meeting. Back then, this was a relatively small…
February marks the time of year when a good number of our members suddenly go quiet. But we know why: February is the start of…
Ten years ago, if you were to ask American CPAs about corporate sustainability practices, your questions would most likely be met with blank stares, if…