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December 22nd, 2011
by Oscar Axume
We will be hosting our second Wine Tasting Mixer at Imbibe Jan. 26. This will be our last event before the chapter goes dormant for the next three months, so invite your friends and come to have a glass of wine (or beer) and pasta. Let’s go out with a bang and be a part of this social mixer, back by popular demand.
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May 4th, 2011
By Oscar Axume
As our chapter board returns from hiatus, we are coming back with more energy as we focus on the coming fiscal year. We are planning more events and revising our scholarship application procedures.
As I mentioned in the January Bulletin, our chapter has experienced the most growth of any chapter in the state over the last fiscal year. In March 2011, for example, the growth was 12 percent from March 2010. With all this growth, we need to have more events to provide members with opportunities to network with other finance professionals and other CPAs. One of these events will be the monthly lunch-and-learn programs that will be starting this month. For these programs, you get one hour of CPE, lunch and the opportunity to meet other finance professionals and CPAs—all for a very reasonable fee.
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January 11th, 2011
By Oscar I. Axume, CPA, Chapter first vice president
Our chapter is going on hiatus for the next three months as most of us enter the busiest time of the year. As you get into the tax season, keep in mind that the nominations for officers and board members will be done in mid-February for the 2011–12 year. When you receive the e-mail, please take a moment to cast your vote.
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November 30th, 2010
By Oscar I. Axume, CPA, chapter first vice president
Another successful year has come and gone for our chapter. We increased our membership and our scholarship fund, and we saw more participation from many of our chapter members.
Over the last three months, our chapter has had the most growth of all the CalCPA chapters. On average, we have had about 5.5 percent growth. The other chapters have had about 3.5 percent over the same period.
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November 3rd, 2010
By Oscar I. Axume, CPA, Chapter First Vice President
As CPAs who practice in the tax are, we should all be aware of the new PTIN requirements and how they will affect our practice.
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September 22nd, 2010
By L. Richard Walton
October features one of our chapter’s premiere participation opportunities: our golf tournament at the Bakersfield Country Club. This follows our Student Night, held Sept. 29. Both of these events are critical to your practice, our chapter—and the future of our profession.
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August 2nd, 2010
By L. Richard Walton
I hate selling things, but I find myself doing it all the time: to clients, to the government, to juries. As a tax controversy/white-collar criminal defense attorney, it is my job to sell the innocence of my client—and they don’t always make the job easy! But I do it—and then I wonder why I find it so hard to speak with fellow CPAs about joining CalCPA.
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July 1st, 2010
As Darkness does not come all at once, neither does Oppression.
There is a time when things remain seemingly unchanged.
And yet it is in such times that we must be most aware of change,
lest we become unwitting victims of the Darkness.
— Justice William O. Douglas
By L Richard Walton
This weekend, we will each take time from our practices to picnic with family, enjoy fireworks and reflect on how lucky we are to live here. As CPAs, we and our clients benefit from Pax Americana, the great American Peace—peace where we say, when we say, because we say so. Our profession is based upon the Rule of Law that makes us so uniquely American.
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June 2nd, 2010
By L. Richard Walton
In 1762, French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said of education: “Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education … We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.”
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May 7th, 2010
By L. Richard Walton
Professionalism, Participation, Philanthropy and Procurement
There is an old story of a CFO who was ordered to meet with engagement partners from what were then the Big Eight, and hire one within two weeks. Two days later, the CFO made his decision.
“How did you decide that fast?” asked the CEO. “Simple,” replied the CFO. “I met with all eight partners. I asked them each the same question—what does two plus two equal?—and seven of the eight responded with ‘four.’ I hired the one who said, ‘What number do you want it to equal?’”
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