Frequency of CPA letter increases; full edition to be available online. (news update).As part of the AICPA's efforts to continually increase and improve member communications, starting in Sept. we will begin publishing 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 12 times a year (up from 10 issues). What's more, starting with the May 2003 issue, each issue of the newsletter will be available online in its entirety (the online version previously only featured selected articles), and is scheduled to be live on www.aicpa.org by the 5th of the month. By using the Web, we can publish more frequently and speed up delivery by as much as two weeks, as well as contain costs. While moving to the electronic environment, we wanted The CPA Letter to look exactly as it would have if it were printed. The newsletter will appear in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format, which is easy to read and easy to print. You can save it to your hard drive and view later, or simply use your computer's print function to print out all the pages in the file. When you read the newsletter online, you can click on the links in the PDF to go to other Web sites. To further facilitate use, each issue of the newsletter will have its own home page providing a "Top Stories" section for the month's most important articles and news (in 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), a link to the downloadable PDF file See PDF. of the complete text, and a link for all the member-segment supplements produced that month, also in PDF format with working links. For the immediate future, in addition to publishing all issues electronically, we will continue to print and mail six issues to members (i.e., the number of printed issues is being reduced from 10 to 6). The first issue to be distributed exclusively online will be the May 2003 issue. Each month members for whom the Institute has e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address will be sent a notice regarding The CPA Letter's availability on the Web site with a live link to the issue's home page. Members not receiving this e-mail should visit www.aicpa.org (see "Online Newsletters") or type www.aicpa.org/pubs/cpaltr/ index.htm into their Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . To provide or update your e-mail address online, log in to our E-Mail Address Update Center at www.aicpa.org/anon/login.asp. Or, send the information to memsat@aicpa.org with "E-Mail Address" in the subject header (1) In a disk or tape file, a set of data that resides permanently at the beginning. It may be used for identification only (type of file, date of last update, etc.), or it may describe the structural layout of the contents, as is common with many document and database formats. field for expedited processing. We look forward to continuing to provide you with a useful, highly valued publication that now will be more timely in the news it delivers. |
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