Category: Certified Exams

  • Tuesday April  23 2013 Luis Martinez, Student Representative for TSCPA at TAMUSA will be the student featured on this panel next week. ' The Texas Society of CPAs, in conjunction with the San Antonio CPA Society, invites your accounting students to a free workshop focusing on n  Career opportunities in accounting n  The future demand…

  • Monday April 22 2013 Texas Tech  will be the first University in Texas to establish a separate School of Accounting. This puts accounting on an equal footing with their law and medical schools. This only makes sense.  My take is that the smaller schools around the state would be better off to focus on Certified…

  • Tuesday April 2 2013 Not long ago I suggested we offer extra curricular classes to obtain the Certified Book keeper designation. This was met with a big yawn, college students don't want to become book keepers. Well one needs to understand book keeping to understand accounting. This was clear on a recent question regarding a…

  • Weekend March  24 2013 Jessica Wertz from the local Institute of Management Accountants chapter joined Lisa Beaudoin from the national headquarters in New Jersey for a presentation on the Certified Management Accountant designation.The presentation was this past Thursday March 21 2013 in our small auditorium.  Jessica related that she decided to work for a company…

  • Wednesday February 13 2013   The Texas State Board of Public Accountantcy is offering a scholarship for 5th year accounting students.  To qualify for this award, you must file your intent to take the CPA exam and meet other specific requirements.  Full information is available at:   http://www.collegeforalltexans.com/apps/financialaid/tofa2.cfm?ID=402   Please go to this site, read…

  • Monday Feb 11 2013 Coach listed on the Hong Kong Exchange in 2011. London Boasts, , List here no SARBOX. Here are examples that more regulations are simply sending US companies to list on other exchanges. The London presentation makes the case that the NYSE is more of a domestic than international exchange.   Is…

  • Thursday January 3 2012 Take a look at the pass rate on the Texas Bar Exam. Now read that there are 21,800 attorney positions, but 44,000 aspiring attorneys. Here is an article on the national surplus of entering attorneys. Here are the numbers of attorneys by state. I was surprised. I expected over 100,000 attorneys and I suspect…

  • Wed Dec 19 2012 If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is more than half done already. It is a small matter whether you read with any one or not. I did not read with any one. Get the books and read and study them in their every feature,…

  • Monday Dec 3 2012 Dennis, please encourage your students who are TSCPA/SACPAS members to join us this Thursday evening for our Holiday Open House and Reception – see attached flyer for details.  It’s honoring new CPAs and new members who are CPAs but student members are eligible to attend as well and could benefit from…

  • Thursday Nov 29 2012 On Monday, December 3, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST, Gleim will host a CPA Q&A Live Broadcast on our YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/gleimaccounting. Subscribe and tune in for a chance to ask our expert presenters questions about preparing for and passing the CPA exam. We will discuss the Gleim CPA Review System and…