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Upcoming
Events
February
17, 2010 - Stress Management
April 21, 2010
- Identity Theft and How to Prevent It
May
19, 2010 - Arizona income tax
update
June 16, 2010 - To be
determined
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Special
Thanks
The
Tucson AWSCPA would like to thank the following
firms for their generous contributions to our
affiliate:
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Beach Fleischman & Company for hosting
our TechCasts. Without their sponsorship, we may
not have won a Silver Star award at the 2007 and
2008 Joint National
Conference.
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Arizona Lithographers for preparation of
our member directory. Any member who has not
received their directory this year or has any
corrections can contact Chris
Elzy.
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Job
Forum - It's All About You
The
Tucson AWSCPA affiliate strives to develop more
networking opportunities for our members and
meeting attendees. As part of this networking, we
are providing the forum for employers with
positions available to match these opportunities
with individuals seeking employment. This will be
a confidential service if you are seeking
employment.
For those with
positions available, contact any Board member to
announce your opening at a monthly meeting or in
our newsletter. (NOTE: Newsletter postings must be
received by the 5th of the month for inclusion in
that month. Ads must be 200 words or less - no
logos or tables. All postings may be further
edited as needed for space
limitations.)
PLEASE communicate this
employment connection to your employers for future
employment opportunities for others. This is a
FREE service for those looking for great CPA's -
that's you!
If
you have any questions or need additional
information, contact Kelly
or Kristen.
Job
Openings
No
current postings.
Please
contact us if you have a job opening to be
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Welcome
to AWSCPA
AWSCPA
is dedicated to serving all women CPAs. As a
member of this national organization, you will
find yourself in a supportive environment with
valuable resources to help you achieve your
personal and professional goals. You will also
find rewarding opportunities for
leadership,networking,and
education.
Membership
in the AWSCPA is open to all individuals (male and
female) who are or who are aspiring to become
certified public accountants. If you would
like more information and a membership
application, please contact Nancy
Hall. You may also speak to any board
member at our monthly luncheons.
We
appreciate your support and attendance at our
programs! Please feel free to contact any board
member if you have questions, concerns or
suggestions! You may also visit the website of the
AWSCPA National Office at www.awscpa.org.
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AWSCPA
Mission
The
American Woman's Society of Certified Public
Accountants (AWSCPA) is a national organization
dedicated to serving all women CPAs. The AWSCPA
provides a supportive environment and valuable
resources for members to achieve their personal
and professional goals through various
opportunities including advocacy, networking,
leadership training, education, and public
awareness.
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We
Want Your Input
As
you can see, we're using a new format for our
newsletter. And we want it to be useful for all of
our readers. Please let us know if there is
anything you like or dislike about this new
format, and we'll work to improve
it!
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Dear
Kim,
What
a wonderful time we had at the December
meeting. David Cohen gave us extremely
useful information for the upcoming tax season
while also being entertaining.
Congratulations to Lisa Gundvaldson for winning
the gift certificate to the Melting Pot.
(Maybe she will take me with her.) Also, a
big thank you everyone who brought donations for
the Community Food Bank and Your Sister's
Closet. The winner of our 50/50 raffle was
Cinde Haines of Hammel, Beal & Lauer, P.C.,
and she graciously donated the winnings to our
scholarship fund.
Come
to our next meeting and learn about the status
of the global economy and get a chance to win
another $50 gift certificate to the Melting
Pot. The attendance at our meetings is
improving, and I would love to see it
continue.
Finally,
I would like to congratulate the winners of
our scholarships.
The
four $750 tuition scholarships went to
--
Melissa
Marie Tomlinson - University of Arizona (prior
year recipient), Lisa Glasgow - University of
Arizona (prior year recipient),
Leonora
Escobar - Pima Community College, and
Lisa
Roethle - Grand Canyon University
And
our Becker scholarship for $1,500 was won by
April Wear.
Laura
Foley
AWSCPA
- Tucson Affiliate
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Presented
by: Vance Falbaum, RBC Wealth
Management
Upcoming
luncheon will be a very exciting one for many of
us as Vance Falbaum, CIMAŽ shares his thoughts
on the Global Economic Outlook.
Mr.
Falbaum has worked in the Private Client Group
at RBC Wealth Management since 1988 and is one
of 34 members of RBC Wealth Management's Senior
Consulting Group. Falbaum Investment Group
assists clients with developing and implementing
wealth management and protection strategies for
their business and family assets.
As
we emerge from one of the most challenging years
in memory, we are bringing you a perspective on
what has transpired as well as what we might
expect in the coming years. Mr. Falbaum
will include in his presentation remarks on the
type of recovery we may have in store, how
rising interest rates are affected by and effect
unemployment, the stock market and current
global government debt loads, and the U.S. debt
and deficit.
Please
join us in this stimulating discussion and bring
your thoughts and
questions!
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Date
& Time: January
20, 2010 11:30AM - 1:30PM
(Please
allow time for check-in, lunch served at
12PM)
Cost:
$30 members / $35 non-members / $10
students
CPE: Counts
as one (1) hour of CPE
Place:
Montana Avenue, 6390 E Grant Rd
(1)
King
Salmon Salad, buttter lettuce,
marble potato, caper-mustard
vinaigrette
(2)
Twin
Kobe Burgers, fontina
cheese, house pickles, brioche
buns, served with
fries
(3) Turkey
on Grilled Flatbread, baby
swiss, avocado, butter lettuce, and hummus
spread, served with
fries
(4) Sweet
Corn Cannelloni, baby tomatoes
and basil salad
Reservations: Contact
Lisa Gundvaldson at lgundvaldson@cox.net
by noon Friday, January
15th.
Note:
Participants who sign up but are unable to
attend will be billed unless they notify Lisa of
the cancellation 24 hours in advance of
the luncheon.
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AWSCPA
Virtual Mall
- AWSCPA
has partnered with several companies, who will
donate a portion of each purchase made through
the AWSCPA Virtual Mall to the CPE Foundation,
which provides national scholarships and helps
affiliates with their scholarship programs. See
the Virtual Mall on www.awscpa.org
(from the home page click the "Useful Links"
button, then choose "AWSCPA Virtual Mall") for a
complete listing.
Kaplan
CPA Review,
a long-time affinity partner with AWSCPA,
is dedicated to helping CPA candidates pass the
exam. Student or professional members of
AWSCPA are entitled to a 25% discount on all of
Kaplan's Complete Learning Systems and live
classes. This discount alone will more than
pay for your annual AWSCPA membership
investment! To learn more about this discount,
contact AWSCPA at info@awscpa.org.
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In
an effort to give back to the community, the
AWSCPA Tucson affiliate has started a tradition
of collecting donations for select charities and
other charitable endeavors each year. We also
have our own scholarship fund through which we
have given scholarships to deserving college
students - we awarded three $750
scholarships last year and two $500
scholarships in each of the prior three years.
We have also collected clothing for the YWCA
Your Sister's Closet. This year we have plans to
help the community as
follows:
YWCA Your Sister's
Closet This worthy organization
provides unemployed women with clothing that is
appropriate for job interviews and to begin
employment. They need professional clothing that
is stylish, clean and preferably ON HANGERS.
Clean out a closet and bring your gently used
items to our next luncheon. You'll receive a
receipt for your contribution, and we'll take
care of delivering them to the YWCA. Find out
more about this organization by visiting their
website at www.ywcatucson.org/.
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Tucson AWSCPA has a scholarship
program for female accounting students who have
taken a non-traditional path to their education.
We have awarded four scholarships of
$750 each this year.
There are
several ways you can help fund these
scholarships:
$$$ Give and
receive... participate in the 50/50 raffle at
each meeting - one ticket for $1 or six tickets
for $5. The proceeds are split - half to the
winner and half to benefit the scholarship fund.
OR you can purchase tickets for the next raffle
by sending your check (made out to AWSCPA) to:
Chris Elzy, AWSCPA Treasurer (fbo scholarship),
P.O. Box 41361, Tucson, Arizona 85717-1361.
Please indicate "Raffle tickets" and the number
of tickets on the memo line.
In
addition, you can help this cause through a
tax-deductible contribution directly to our
scholarship fund at The University of Arizona
Foundation. Please contact a board member for
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Past-President
/ Treasurer / Directory: Chris
Elzy
Director
Membership: Nancy Hall
Director
Programming: Svetlana Pitman
Co-Director
Hospitaltiy: Lisa Gundvaldson
Co-Director
Newsletter: Kristen Smith
Director
Outreach (Scholarship): Deb
Hutchinson
Member-at-large:
Lori Hoby
Committee
Members:
Programming: Sheri
Campbell
Hospitality: Larysa
Gamble
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