Hats off to Hal! 2005 CalCPA Distinguished Service Award winner: Harold S. "Hal" Schultz.For a career devoted to the betterment bet·ter·ment n. 1. An improvement over what has been the case: financial betterment. 2. Law An improvement beyond normal upkeep and repair that adds to the value of real property. of the accounting profession, Harold S Harold, 1022?–1066, king of England (1066). The son of Godwin, earl of Wessex, he belonged to the most powerful noble family of England in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Through Godwin's influence Harold was made earl of East Anglia. . "Hal" Schultz is CalCPA's 2005 Distinguished Service Award winner. Schultz, a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Irvine, is a 33-year veteran of 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. profession and his contributions to the profession have been numerous and constant. He has been a CalCPA Council member since 1991, and served as CalCPA president in 1997-98. He has served on the CalCPA Accounting Education and Careers Committee since 1992, serving as chair in 1995-97. Schultz also is chair of CalCPA's Leadership Development Committee, and previously has chaired CalCPA's Nominating Committee A nominating committee is a group formed usually from inside the membership of an organization for the purpose of nominating candidates for office within the organization. It works similarly to an electoral college, the main difference being that the available candidates, either ; the Special Committee on Certification and Licensing; and the Accounting Education Planning Task Force. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] And if that wasn't enough, Schultz has been a member of the CalCPA Committee on Professional Accountability. But it's his work on CalCPA's Government Relations Committee, where he is co-chair, that has left the most indelible mark on CalCPA--and the profession. He began working on the committee in 1991 and has played a major role in ensuring a fair regulatory environment. "Hal has contributed so much to the profession on both the national and state level that our successes as a result of his efforts are too extensive to chronicle," says Robert A. Petersen, chair of the CalCPA Government Relations Committee. "While Hal is a large-firm representative appearing before regulators, he's always been balanced for the good of the profession as a whole, including the smallest of the professional practices." Schultz has served on the California Board of Accountancy's Licensing Issues Task Force; Audit Standards and Practices Task Force; Peer Review Task Force; and Practice Privilege Task Force. On the national level, Schultz is a member of the AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Council and served on the AICPA CPA Exam Content Oversight
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Schultz began his accounting career in 1968 during his senior year at Cal State Fullerton when he was an intern intern /in·tern/ (in´tern) a medical graduate serving in a hospital preparatory to being licensed to practice medicine. in·tern or in·terne n. with Coopers & Lybrand, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . He quickly worked his way up the ladder, and was named assurance partner in 1981. The firm, which merged with Price Waterhouse in 1998, is the only one Schultz has ever worked for. Through it all, Schultz has remained a positive driving force for both CalCPA and the profession. "Over his career, Hal has demonstrated more true dedication to our profession than anyone I have had the pleasure to be associated with," says James Kuhn, chair of CalCPA's Awards and Recognition Committee. "He seems to do it all with such a quiet ease and always with a smile on his face." |
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