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The election of Neria Douglass, an attorney with no accounting background, as Maine's state auditor has some local residents--and especially Rep. Darren Hall, CPA--up in arms. 'Tin absolutely appalled she did not have the initials CPA after her name," Congressman Hall said in an impromptu A Windows query and reporting tool from Cognos with support for a large variety of databases. It is capable of generating cross tabs for spreadsheets such as Excel, Lotus for Windows and Quattro Pro for Windows. but impassioned speech on the floor of the Maine House of Representatives House of Representatives: see Congress of the United States.. "It's an insult to our profession and an insult to me."

Even as Douglass explained that the state auditor job (which carries a $75,000 annual salary) is more about management than accounting, and that her qualified staff of CPAs and finance professionals will handle any actual audit work, she told the JofA she has been hitting the accounting books. Meanwhile, a bill requiring that all future state auditors be CPAs passed Maine's House of Representatives but stalled in its Senate.

Meanwhile, Hall said being a CPA made his 2004 election possible, since it had allowed him "all kinds of free time from April 16 to June to work every day on my campaign." Despite having no background in politics, he won by a landslide, thanks to his tax practice's supportive clients and his promise not to vote for one single tax single tax, any levy that serves as the government's only source of revenue. Generally, however, it is understood to mean a tax derived from economic rent and used as the sole source of public receipts. As such, it is based on the doctrine that land and the natural resources are the source of all wealth, and it corresponds substantially to the impôt unique of the 18th-century physiocrats. increase. Juggling the two jobs during tax season was extremely difficult, though, he acknowledged; he'd often shuttle home from Augusta at night, do a couple of tax returns and rush right back for an early morning session.

Hall obviously is still smarting over Douglass and other lawyers encroaching on CPA territory. "There's nothing else we can do for now," he concedes. "But I'll resubmit the bill next term--along with one that says you shouldn't have to be an attorney to be Maine's Attorney General."
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Title Annotation:NEWS WIRE
Author:Rosen, Cheryl
Publication:Journal of Accountancy
Date:Aug 1, 2005
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