The Start of a Great Year

By Evan R. Strano, CPA

CalCPA recently held its Annual Members’ Business and Council meetings in San Francisco. The annual meeting is always a great time to get together and discuss the issues facing the profession, as well as see old and new friends and colleagues. However, this year’s meeting was particularly special. CalCPA is celebrating its 100th year serving our state’s CPAs. The two days of meetings were crowned by the centennial gala. It was a wonderful time and left me with a sense of pride and accomplishment for our profession and our state professional association, the largest in the country, with more than 35,000 members.

One of the most informative sessions of the council meeting was the legislative update. There are several bills important to our profession that are moving through the state Legislature. CalCPA has been contacting the appropriate representatives, to inform them about these issues. You can see the status of statutory and legislative issues affecting the profession on the CalCPA website.

At the local level, our chapter will celebrate CalCPA’s 100th year at a gala event in November. At this time we will also acknowledge our 40-year members. Please plan on coming out to this event! More information will follow soon.

Your leadership team has been busy planning events for you this year. We will start our activities in September with a meeting sponsored by our Litigation Committee. The October meeting is being presented jointly by the Business & Industry and Management of an Accounting Practice committees and should prove to be very informative. In October we also will hold our Student Scholarship/YEP event.

During the year we will host several other opportunities for CPE and networking, in addition to the events that I have mentioned. More detailed information will be available as the event dates draw near. As always, remember to make use of CalCPA’s website and its numerous resources.

— Evan R. Strano, CPA

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