http://www.aicpa.org

Accounting: a career without boundaries

Accounting has been labeled as a career without boundaries and one professional organization uses this label as their foundation. This professional organization is the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The AICPA is the national, professional organization for Certified Public Accountants (CPA). Its mission is to provide members with the resources, information, and leadership that enable them to provide valuable services in the highest professional manner to benefit the public as well as employers and clients. The AICPA is the premier professional organization for CPA’s. Some of the AICPA objectives are:

• To establish professional standards: assist members in continually improving their professional conduct, performance and expertise; and monitors such performance to enforce current standards and requirements.
• Promote public awareness and confidence in the integrity, objectivity, competence, and professionalism of CPA’s and monitor the needs and views of CPA’s.
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Information

CPA’s have a long-standing reputation as being skilled and trusted professionals because of their comprehensive, analytical, and strategic approach to problem solving and decision-making; the AICPA Online site carries this information. At this site a person will find a wide array of facts, figures and analyses as well as links to related resources that revolves around the accounting profession.

On this web site, there is information about:

• The AICPA and its member privileges.
• AICPA Publications, such as The Journal of Accountancy, The CPA Letter, The Tax Adviser, and the Code of Conduct.
• News about the CPA profession, such as federal, state and regulatory news, press releases and news alerts.
• Continuing professional education (CPE) requirement like self-study catalogs and CPE products.
• Upcoming events and conferences.

Resources

There are also some useful resources at this web site such as the State CPA societies, the Board of Accountancy, research links to firms and professional organizations. Also, there is a career resource and resume match link that has information about job trends, referrals, and postings. Another useful resource is the Forums link, this is a collection of online discussion areas where users can exchange ideas and share thoughts of concern to the accounting community.

AICPA Online is the single most comprehensive source of information on the CPA profession that exists today. It offers a wide scope of data and links to relevant site and resources about the accounting profession.

Sincerely,

Camino Everson
Accountant
Intergraph Corporation