Considering the profession's future.WITH STRONG NATIONAL and state accounting reform legislation signed into law recently, a distinguished group of Californians has launched an ambitious project to study and report on issues related to public trust and confidence in financial reports and financial reporting professionals. Chaired by John Lacey This article is about the Brigadier General. For the U.S. Representative from Iowa, see John F. Lacey. John Lacey (February 4 1755 - February 17 1814) was an American military officer during the American Revolutionary War. , a 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. and professor of accounting at California State University Enrollment  , Long Beach, the Committee on the Future of California's Professional Accountants includes former SEC commissioners Aulana Peters and Harold Williams and ethics expert Michael Josephson. The 17-member committee, which held its first meeting in October, is developing specific recommendations and implementation strategies to restore and strengthen public confidence in the independence, integrity and objectivity of financial reporting professionals and in the completeness and fairness of financial statements prepared by or under the supervision of financial reporting professionals. The committee plans to issue a report to the public in early spring. Other committee members include Anthony Anderson, CPA, managing partner of Ernst & Young's Los Angeles office; Joseph Berenato, president, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ducommun; John Dodsworth, CPA, president of CAMICO; Loretta Doon, CPA, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of the California Teacher's Association; William Holder, CPA, professor of accounting at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission ; Dan Koskovich, CPA, CFO of Cannon Communications LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ; Ira Landis, CPA, former president of the California Board of Accountancy; Kenneth Leventhal, CPA, chairman emeritus of the Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group, a division of Ernst & Young; Kenneth Macias, CPA, founder and managing partner, Macias, Gini & Company; Roger Molvar, CPA, CEO of IndyMac Bank; Robert G. O'Donnell, portfolio counselor, Capital Group Cos.; Susan Waters, CalCPA CEO; and Tracey Westen, executive director of the Center for Governmental Studies. Waters notes that the committee is operating independently of external interests, including CalCPA. "We are here only to offer a place and a reason to meet," she says. |
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