• If your username is your email address, it remains the same.
• If your username is your CalCPA member ID, it will change to your primary email address.
• Your password will not change, BUT you will be forced to change it at first log in. Your default password, if you did not previously change it, is your last name with a capitalized first letter.

Tickets are available online.

For questions or to book groups of 10 or more, contact Steve Herman.

Happy spring! This time of year is especially refreshing for us in the accounting world, as for many of us it marks the end of tax season, audit season and year-end closes. I hope it is a time to refresh and renew for all of you! I look forward to serving as your chapter president this year and feel honored to be representing our chapter of approximately 530 members.

Thank you to Brooke Salvini, our past president, and to the entire board of directors for your energy and hard work over the past year. I would like to take a moment to reflect on the successes of last year. During our last CalCPA fiscal year (May 2011–April 2012), our chapter had 29 events—many of which were free—and provided 44 hours of local CPE. If you attended all of the events, your average CPE cost would have been less than $10 per hour. What a deal! The PFP discussion group, tax roundtable, and North County roundtable were all active during the year, providing specialized continuing education and opportunities to collaborate with peers. We also had excellent events for networking and reaching out to local accounting students.

And now for a preview of the upcoming year. We already have many enjoyable and valuable events scheduled for the coming months. Please join us May 22 for the installation dinner at the San Luis Obispo Country Club and get a chance to meet your incoming board and thank the outgoing board members. Our scholarship fundraiser CPE course will be offered June 27 and will feature guest speaker Peter Hughes, CPA, MBA, Ph.D., who has received rave reviews from past courses. He will discuss How to Spot and Stop Fraud. This is an opportunity to get your required fraud CPE locally, as well as support local accounting students. We also plan to have our traditional Student Night (Nov.6) and Attorneys, Bankers and CPAs (ABC) Mixer (Sept. 25), along with many other great events. Please come out and support these activities.

For those of you that I have not yet met personally, I look forward to meeting you this year at one of our events, discussion groups, committee meetings or other functions.

Our goal is to provide value to our local chapter members. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please reach out to me, a board member or chapter program associate Rita Williams.

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Help legislators understand the issues facing California CPAs and sign up to attend CPA Day at the Capitol.  How can your presence help? Take a look at our successful 2011 advocacy efforts for an idea and read the experience of past participants.

Don’t underestimate the importance of your presence!

By Brooke Salvini

Who says CPA’s aren’t talented and humorous? Wishing you a wonderful and laughter filled 2012.

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Los Bank Auditors

http://youtu.be/NnFk4jnV5Es

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Accountants aren’t boring people. We just get excited over boring things.

Accountants do it without losing their balance.

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Where do homeless accountants live?
In a tax shelter.

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The Oldest Profession

A surgeon, CPA and a lawyer were arguing about which of them was practicing the oldest profession.

The surgeon said, “God created Eve from a rib from Adam. Obviously, God is a surgeon, so medicine is the oldest profession.”

The CPA protested. “Before God created Eve from Adam’s rib, he created an orderly universe from chaos. That clearly shows that God was an accountant before he was a surgeon. Accounting then has to be the oldest profession.”

The lawyer sat for a moment, smiling, looking at the surgeon and the CPA. “That may be true,” the lawyer said, shrugging his shoulders, “but who created the chaos?”

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Turbo Tax Rap

http://youtu.be/m9sfbqmb02A

Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.

—Gerald Barzan, humorist

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Thank you for the opportunity to serve this past year as your chapter president. It has been a pleasure to work with many of you on various events and I appreciate the hours you’ve given to the chapter. Our last chapter meeting of 2011-12 will be held Jan. 10 at the Madonna Inn. Our topic will be Retirement Plans & IRAs: Inflows and Outflows. Unfortunately, we did not receive enough interest to charter the bus to CPA Day at the Capitol Jan. 18. Nevertheless, I hope to see some of you in Sacramento.

Help legislators understand the issues facing California CPAs and sign up to attend CPA Day at the Capitol. How can your presence help? Take a look at our successful 2011 advocacy efforts for an idea.

Don’t underestimate the importance of your presence!