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| Two lucky winners will receive a FREE ExamMatrix review course. Responses must be received by Feb. 26 to qualify. To take this issue's poll, click here. |
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| 2010 Student Manuscript Competition Topic Announced! |
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The TSCPA Student Manuscript Competition encourages undergraduate and graduate students to address, in writing, those issues that affect the accounting profession.
To be eligible, you must be a non-CPA who is an undergraduate or graduate student majoring in accounting. You must be either attending a Tennessee college or university or, if you attend an out-of-state school, you must be a Tennessee resident.
The topic for 2010 is "Why are CPAs important to the financial health of our nation's economy?"
Manuscripts must be submitted by March 19, 2010, to your college's accounting administrator. For more information, contact Jennifer Batchelor at 615/377-3825 or jbatchelor@tscpa.com. |
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Switching apartments for this semester? Graduated and starting a new job? Let TSCPA know!
Update your profile in the Members Only section of TSCPA's Web site so that you can continue receiving the latest news from your association by e-mail and snail mail. |
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| Congratulations Nicole Swint! |
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Congratulations to Nicole Swint who won the Free ExamMatrix CPA Exam Review Course given away in our September issue!
We will be giving away an ExamMatrix exam review package (value $995) in every issue of Next. Click here to enter this issue's drawing!
Note: Only TSCPA members are eligible to win. If you are not a member, you should be! Click here to apply! |
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| College Educational Requirements for Becoming a Tennessee CPA |
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By Bradley Childs, Belmont University
Unlike the bar exam for attorneys or the CFP exam for financial professionals, the educational requirements to sit for the CPA exam are often less well understood. The purpose of this article is to explain the college educational requirements for becoming a CPA in Tennessee, and to show how this plays out for prospective candidates that have varying educational backgrounds.
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Accounting Jobs Today, www.accountingjobstoday.com
All job interviews have the same objective, but employers reach that objective in a variety of ways. You might enter the room expecting to tell stories about your professional successes and instead find yourself selling the interviewer a bridge or editing code at a computer. One strategy for performing your best during an interview is to know the rules of the particular game you are playing when you walk through the door.
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| What Employers Want to See on Your Networking Profile |
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By Anthony Balderrama, Career Builder, www.careerbuilder.com
Last June, the city of Bozeman, Mont., became notorious when it implemented a policy that required anyone applying to a city job to hand over logins and passwords for any social networking sites they used. We're not just talking about Facebook and MySpace, either. They wanted access to chat rooms and forums frequented by applicants. After people made a fuss about the invasive policy, Bozeman officials backed down and decided to adjust their application requirements.
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| Saving is Something You Should Do Every Day |
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By Jason Zweig, Yahoo Finance, www.finance.yahoo.com
Americans have forgotten how to save in recent years.
That has changed, at least for now. People finally have again realized how important it is to save. Here are a few simple ways to raise your own rate of saving. Each will save you something; together, they will save you a lot.
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| How to Avoid Hefty Financial Mistakes in College |
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By Nickolas Certo, Young Money, www.youngmoney.com
Managing your money is just as important as staying physically fit and mentally healthy. And much like the "Freshman 15" that sometimes come with all of the other stresses of college life, the added weight of money mistakes can stay with you for a long time and can be pretty hard to shed. But luckily, they can also be easier to avoid with the help of some common sense and some added knowledge.
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CareOne Credit, www.careonecredit.com
Identity theft is becoming increasingly more prevalent in our society. But what is the definition of identity theft, and how can it be prevented?
If someone has stolen your identity, it means your personal information has been taken and possibly used without your knowledge for the purpose of committing fraud or theft.
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From chapter meetings to happy hours to volunteer opportunities, there are countless ways for you to get involved and meet fellow students & emerging CPAs.
Does your chapter have an event coming up? Snap a few pictures, then e-mail them to us. We'll use them for future issues of Next.
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| 2009 Student Manuscript Competition Winners Katie Yinger (2nd place), Scott Sims (Ist place) and Brittany Blunt (3rd place). |
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| Nashville Chapter Scholarship Winner and Lipscomb University student Eddie Fitzgerald and Chapter President-Elect Joseph Proctor. |
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| 2009 Student Manuscript Competition Winners Katie Yinger (2nd place), Scott Sims (Ist place) and Brittany Blunt (3rd place). |
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| 2009 Student Manuscript Competition Winners Katie Yinger (2nd place), Scott Sims (Ist place) and Brittany Blunt (3rd place). |
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