Byrd, Proctor & Mills, P.C. Announce New Partner.Lifestyle Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2000 Alice Crafts came to Nashville from a small town in Alabama in December, 1979. Alice decided to move to a larger city in hopes of discovering new and better opportunities. With $200 of savings, she rented a motel room and went to a local employment agency in search of a job. Within a few days, Alice was placed in a local 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. firm as their receptionist, earning a salary of $600 a month. Alice answered the phones, handled the front office, and typed financial statements, tax forms, and letters on an electric IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) typewriter. In 1983, Alice expressed an interest in possibly doing some bookkeeping bookkeeping, maintenance of systematic and convenient records of money transactions in order to show the condition of a business enterprise. The essential purpose of bookkeeping is to reveal the amounts and sources of the losses and profits for any given period. work and tax preparation for the firm. Her employer sent her to the H & R Block tax return course. After completing the 13-week course, she started preparing tax returns. In 1986, Alice decided she enjoyed the field of accounting enough to make it her career. She started taking night classes while continuing to work full time for her firm. She attended night school and continued her fulltime employment (which frequently required 80-plus work-weeks). Alice's expertise improved and she started handling more complex assignments. She began to develop her own client base. In 1991, Alice was asked to join another local firm, Byrd, Proctor & Mills, PC. She brought with her a client base with billings exceeding her starting salary. Along with the clients she brought to the firm, she worked on some of the firm's largest clients. In 1995, she finally finished her accounting degree. She graduated Summa Cum Laude sum·ma cum lau·de adv. & adj. With the greatest honor. Used to express the highest academic distinction: graduated summa cum laude; a summa cum laude graduate. and was asked to join Phi Kappa Phi The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (or simply Phi Kappa Phi) is the oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society for land-grant and public colleges in the United States. (an honor society honor society n. An organization to which students are admitted in recognition of academic achievement. chosen by faculty from the top two percent of the class). Her accounting GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted was 4.0, and she had a 3.9 overall. Prior to graduating, the education requirements for the CPA exam were changed. There was no grandfather clause grandfather clause, provision in constitutions (adopted 1895–1910) of seven post–Reconstruction Southern states that exempted those persons who had been eligible to vote on Jan. . Anyone taking the CPA exam for the first time in Tennessee was required to have the equivalent to a five-year degree. Undaunted, Alice forged on to get the extra year of college. To get the required hours and classes, Alice attended both two different universities at night and weekends. This required driving to and from Murfreesboro and taking an 8 a.m. class which lasted four hours on Saturday. Immediately after getting the required college credits. In November, 1996, Alice passed the CPA exam on her first attempt. In 1999, after 20 years in public accounting, Byrd, Proctor & Mills, asked Alice to become a partner with the firm. Effective January 1, 2000, Byrd, Proctor & Mills had its first female partner. Photo available. SOURCE: DigitalWork ( http://www.digitalwork.com ) DigitalWork.com -- Your Business Workshop |
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