Awards.

Joan Alleckson, president of San Diego-based PCS Audit, has won the Second Annual Balance Award for an accounting firm with one to 100 employees. The award, given by the American Society of Women Accountants, recognizes Alleckson's commitment to work/life balance and her sensitivity to the concerns of women in the accounting profession ... Charles P. Rettig of Beverly Hills has received the 2003 V. Judson Klein Award for Outstanding Achievement in Taxation from the Taxation Section of the State Bar of California ... Ken Macias, founder and managing partner at Sacramento-based Macias, Gini & Co. was named Businessman of the Year by the California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The firm is one of the 500 largest Latino-owned companies in the United States ... Redlands-based Jessie Powell has won the Inland Empire Chapter's 2003 Community Service Award. Powell is president and past treasurer of the YMCA of the East Valley and has served as president and treasurer of the YWCA of Redlands and Soroptimist International. She has also served as treasurer of the Redlands Community Music Association ... Janice B. Wilson-Marcum was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Wilson-Marcum, retired from Grant Bennett Accountants, served on the California Board of Accountancy for six years and in 1992 became the first woman to serve as board president. She also has served as a NASBA Pacific Regional Director and director-at-large; chair of the CPA Examination Review Board; and a member of the CPE Registry, Legal Liability, Licensing Requirements, Reciprocity and Search committees.

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