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CPAs Hailed for Enlightened Leadership

The Institute's Business and Industry Hall of Fame has several new members, following the induction of CPAs Edward Davis Beach, Gayl W Doster and Paul E. Larson during the AICPA Spring National Industry Conference in Seattle.

The award, now in its second year, honors business and industry CPAs who, in addition to understanding all facets of their enterprises, provide insight and vision and use leadership, commitment and strategic management skills to help their organizations thrive in the "new economy." Accountants on Call (AOC) and the Institute are joint sponsors of the awards.

Beach is president of BMC Fund, Inc., of North Carolina, and oversees the management of its $150 million investment portfolio. He has worked for more than fifty years in public and private accounting and has built one of the state's most successful CPA firms.

Doster is president of Sigma Micro Corp., where he has employed advanced technology to expand the reach of his company--a provider of information management and communications software--into global markets.

Larson is former president of the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa. During his 25-year career there, he led its transformation from a small life insurer into one of the nation's fastest-growing financial services organizations.

Each Hall of Fame winner received a one-year AICPA membership and a place in the Institute's Virtual Hall of Fame at www.aicpa.org. Accountants on Call and the AICPA also are featuring the winners in a major advertising and promotional campaign.

AOC (www.aocnet.com) places accounting and finance professionals in temporary and direct-hire positions around the world.

To participate in next year's award program, call the Institute at 212-596-6157 or AOC at 800-327-1117 (x284). Information is also available online at www.aicpa.org/halloffame/Index.htm.

IRS Instructor Wins Gold Medal

The AICPA announced the winners of the Elijah Watt Sells awards for the Uniform CPA Examination held in November 1999. Elizabeth Kinney, of Jersey City, New Jersey, a senior resident lead instructor for the IRS, took the gold medal. Kinney received the highest score of the 70,000 candidates.

Kinney has served in various positions with the IRS, where she started as a co-op college student. She holds a bachelor's degree in business, administration from Pace University and a master's degree in taxation from Long Island University.

The Sells silver and bronze medals for second and third places went to Adrian Grant Simmons of Laurel, Maryland, a recent intern with KPMG, and Hans Peter Bork, a tax partner of BDO in Dusseldorf, Germany.

The Sells Award, instituted in 1923 and presented twice a year by the AICPA, recognizes the contributions to the accounting profession of Elijah Watt Sells, a founding partner of Haskins & Sells, a predecessor of Deloitte & Touche LLP. Sells was one of the first CPAs licensed under a New York state law enacted in 1896 and played an active role in the creation of the AICPA.

CPA Exam Graders Needed

The AICPA is seeking CPAs and attorneys to assist in grading future CPA exams.

The Uniform CPA Examination is given twice a year--in May and November. The grading period begins two to three weeks after the exam is given and continues for about six weeks. Graders are paid $15 an hour and must provide a minimum of three seven-hour days each week. All grading is done at the AICPA's Jersey City office. Grading facilities are open every day of the week including Saturdays and Sundays, and CPA exam graders will receive 16 AICPA CPE credit hours.

For additional information and an application, write to Grading Coordinator--004, AICPA, 201 Plaza Three, Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, New Jersey 07311-3881. Or e-mail your request to [e-mail].