Accomplishments.

Harvey Bookstein, co-founder of Los Angeles-based RBZ, LLP has donated $1 million to Cal State Northridge for the creation of the Harvey and Harriet Bookstein Chair in Taxation in the university's College of Business and Economics ... David Hardesty's Share-Based Payments: An Analysis of FASB Statement 123(R) was published June 7. Hardesty also has been selected one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Practitioners" in accounting for 2005 for an upcoming issue of CPA Magazine ... Los Angeles-based John R. Ezell has been recognized as an industry expert by Business Brokerage Press ... San Francisco-based Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP was ranked in the top 25 of the Bay Area's "Best Places to Work" in a survey by the San Francisco Business Times, the East Bay Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal ... Santa Monica-based Stonefield Josephson was named one of "America's Top 25 Auditors" and the ninth-fastest growing auditor in the country in the April issue of The Accounting Report by Art Bowman ... Redlands-based Douglas R. McAdam, managing partner of Soren McAdam Christenson LLP, has been elected chair of PKF North American Network's board of directors ... Walnut Creek-based Ralph Haskew has been named president of the board of directors of the California Symphony ... Mary Barth was chosen one of the 100 most influential people in finance in the June issue of Treasury and Risk Management Magazine.

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