CPA letter online now offers HTML articles, article index by topic.In response to member feedback, The 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 now offers two enhancements to the newsletter's existing online version. Both enhancements, articles in Web-page format and an article index by topic, are now available through www.aicpa.org/pubs/cpaltr/index.htm. Newer technologies have enabled the Institute to provide each issue's major articles in easily accessible HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. format. Members short on time, commuting or traveling no longer have to open the large PDF file See PDF. , and scroll through vertical columns, for their important news. In addition, hyperlinks to those HTML articles are now provided in the e-mail notice sent each month to AICPA members (with e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address on file) informing them of the latest issue's online posting. Another new feature that began with last month's issue is an archive of the HTML-format articles. Organized by topic, the index covers accounting and auditing news, legislative activities/state licensing, financial literacy Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in countries including[1] Australia, Japan, the United States and the UK. , recruitment/retention of CPAs, regulatory matters, technology and others. Each headline listed links to the article on The CPA Letter Web space. Articles will be listed alphabetically al·pha·bet·i·cal also al·pha·bet·ic adj. 1. Arranged in the customary order of the letters of a language. 2. Of, relating to, or expressed by an alphabet. within each topic; the specific issue of the newsletter will be cited for reference. The article archive can be accessed through both The CPA Letter main home page and a link on each issue's index page. The CPA Letter hopes members take full advantage of these Web-oriented improvements and find them useful. Additional developments to further enhance the newsletter's value for members are being considered. Comments or suggestions may be sent to: [email] cpaletter@aicpa.org |
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