AICPA releases Social Security study to lawmakers, media.As reported in the Feb. CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. Letter, the AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). has updated its 1998 study on Social Security to reflect current issues. The new report, Understanding Social Security Reform: The Issues and Alternatives, was distributed last month to members of Congress and other policymakers, as well as to national and trade media outlets. The study's goal is to foster informed discussion by providing unbiased facts and analysis of the issues involved in reforming the present-day Social Security system. Privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned is covered in a section that serves as a primer prim·er n. A segment of DNA or RNA that is complementary to a given DNA sequence and that is needed to initiate replication by DNA polymerase. on the potential advantages and disadvantages of such an approach. A news briefing held on Mar. 8 provided the media with an overview of the report. Presenting the study was Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs P. Ochsenschlager, AICPA Vice President Taxation; Thomas J. Purcell, chair, AICPA Tax Executive Committee; and Martin A. Sullivan, an economic consultant. In addition, the Institute has provided the state CPA societies with resources to inform their members about the report and Social Security reform. To read the study, visit www.aicpa.org/members/socsec.htm. A press release announcing the study's release is available at www.aicpa.org/download/'news/2005_03_07.pdf. |
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