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SA TXCPA Student Membership & Scholarship

Wed Sept 28 2022

Here is a reply to one of our students about membership and scholarship in SA TXCPA

You should definitely consider joining the Texas Society of CPAs as a student member! Not only are there TXCPA statewide scholarships, but the San Antonio Chapter also offers up to five per year; the application process opens in January 2023 for the Fall 2023-Spring 2024 academic year. Our scholarships are not based solely on GPA – we look at employment, activity in the Chapter and a one-page essay describing why each applicant wants to become a CPA (this one is very important!).

 

To establish your student membership, please go to https://www.tx.cpa/resources/become-a-cpa/become-a-student-member and set up your account in order to activate your free membership. Then, let us know what interests you from the list of options at https://www.tx.cpa/sanantonio/membership/get-involved. We’ll add you to the e-mail distribution list and you will begin receiving notifications of upcoming events, committee meetings etc.

 

Let me know if you have any questions. Looking forward to meeting you!

 

 

 

 

Amanda Burrus Talaat Assistant Executive Director     TXCPA San Antonio   Direct: 210-828-2722   Toll Free: 888-828-8680   amanda@txcpasa.cpa     www.tx.cpa/sanantonio

 

SA TXCPA Career Night

Monday Sept  26 2022

Thank you for helping to get the word out on your campus about our Accounting Careers Workshop, which took place last Friday evening – live and in person for the first time since 2019!

 

A total of 70 students signed in – we may have missed a few – which was more than either 2020 or 2021, when we offered the Workshop remotely throughout the state. So that’s saying something! Your students were energized, professional and engaged the whole time. Feedback we received was very positive and encouraging.

 

Chapter Membership, Marketing and Programs Manager Javi Valdes put together a short video to give you some idea of how the program went; you might see someone you know: https://youtu.be/lbcOHSnsAZs

 

Here’s a breakdown of attendance by campus (several students did not indicate their university):

 

UTSA – 43

TAMUSA – 8

OLLU – 4

TAMIU – 3

UIW – 3

NELC – 2

PAC – 2

TX St – 1

CPCA exam Lease Question

Monday Sept 26 2022

Office Hours with Denise Probert - Leases ­ Help your students take the next steps in their careers—invite them to this CPA webinar! ­ ­ ­

­ ­ Accounting for leases, both from a lessee and a lessor perspective, is eligible for testing on the FAR Exam. Are your students prepared for both? Join Denise Probert as she discusses how leases are most likely to appear on the exam, and the best ways to study for this topic. Students will also get to work through CPA Exam practice questions with Denise, and she'll share her top tips on leases!   ­ ­ ­

­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ September 16 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Hosts: Valerie Wendt, CPA Product Manager & Denise Probert, CPA, CGMA Date: September 16, 2022 Time: 2:00 pm ET  | 11:00 am PT Topic: Leases ­ ­ Register Now ­ ­ ­

­ ­ ­ Please share this invitation with your students and colleagues, and we’ll see you there!   — The Gleim Team

SA TXCPA Career Workshop

Tuesday Sept 20 2022

ACCOUNTING CAREERS WORKSHOP THIS FRIDAY 9/23

REGISTER

The 2022 Accounting Careers Workshop is happening this Friday 9/23 at the Norris Conference Center from 5:30 - 8:30PM.   There is still time for students to register for this free event! We implore you to share this great opportunity with your students!      Event Highlights: -Internship Opportunities -Career Advice -Free TXCPA San Antonio Student Membership -Networking with Professionals   Recruiters Attending: ATKG LLP ADKF LLP Steven Bankler CPA BDO USA LLP Exencial Wealth Management Fisher Herbst & Kemble PC Our Lady of the Lake Graduate Admissions Ridout Barrett & Company theKFORDgroup USAA Real Estate Company   The Accounting Careers Workshop provides a great opportunity for your students to get in front of working professionals and firms to begin having conversations that will lead to exponential growth in their professional journeys. Experiences and exposure like this are invaluable to budding future accounting professionals, and can have a direct impact on their career paths moving forward. Students will also be able to claim their free TXCPA San Antonio Student Membership which will grant them continued access to future networking and career building opportunities.    To register, students can scan the QR code on the flyer or visit the bit.ly link to take them to the event page. Upon clicking "register" students will be prompted to either login to our website if they already have an account, or create a free account, at which point they will be able to complete their registration. Please note that creating a free account is a prerequisite to successfully registering.   We hope that you will share this information with your students in the days and weeks to come leading up to the event. While we certainly do not expect any of you go above and beyond by doing the following, we have heard from professors in the past that offering some sort of in-class incentive for participation can have a tremendous impact on attendance!   If you have any questions please direct your email to javi@txcpasa.cpa or amanda@txcpasa.cpa or give us a call at (210) 828-2722.   Thank you for your support in fortifying the futures of San Antonio accounting professionals!   Norris Conference Center 618 Northwest Loop 410 Suite 207, San Antonio, TX 78216

TXCPA-San Antonio 2022 Corporate Sponsors

For more information

CPA Exam 2024

Download CPA2024

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Gleim.com sponsored a professor webinar on the 2024 CPA exam.

I did screen captures of the slides and assembled them into a power point for you.

The BEC portion of the four exam parts will be dropped. It will not be carried over from  2023 if one did not complete it.

Instead one has to choose from one of three different exams.

1. Business Analysis and Reporting BAR
2. Information systems and Controls ISC
3. Tax Compliance and Planning TCP

 

And there are no plans to drop the  150 hour requirement. I believe that decision will doom CPA to be a much smaller part of the certification world in the future.  CPA is about where General Motors was in 1968 with  60% of the car market, then along came the Japanese. Today GM has  18% of the car market.  In this case CPA will have lots of competition from 

CMA'

CIA

EA

CIA and CMA require only a Bachelors and no acct hours

EA not even a college degree

 

 

 

Accounting Educator Webinars

Wed Sept 14 2022

Here are a series of Acct Educator Webinars sponsored by AICPA. Meant for Professors, I thought you would  like to see the current topics covered.

This is where accounting education is headed.

 

https://thiswaytocpa.com/segmented-landing/educator-webinars/

SA TXCPA CAreer Day Sept 3

Wed Sept  14 2022

TXCPA-San Antonio’s first live-and-in-person Accounting Careers Workshop since 2019 takes place on Friday, September 23, between 5:30-8:30 PM at Norris Conference Center. 

 

Local CPA firms will be recruiting for future internships, and CPAs in business and industry, public practice, forensic accounting and more will also share their experiences and answer students’ questions.

 

Attendance is free to students, as always, and this year, student membership in TXCPA and the San Antonio Chapter is also free. Student membership makes your students eligible to apply for our annual scholarships and participate in Chapter committees, Young Accounting Professionals (YAP) events and community service projects.

 

Students can scan the QR code on the attached flyer or go to https://www.tx.cpa/sanantonio/events/event-details/?eventId=c78d30ee-242f-459d-8cc8-726b2005f759 to create their membership accounts and register.

 

We hope you will encourage your students to sign up in advance and attend the Workshop. Extra credit is also a great motivator😊 Let us know if you have any questions and would like for us to keep track of TAMUSA student attendance at the Workshop; we would be happy to do that.

 

20 Knots to Know

Monday Sept 12, 2022

Back in the day, before everyone worked for someone else, we were quite a bit more independent, One had to know how to do things. In the day of horse and wagon or sailing ship this included knowing how to tie a variety of knots.  In sailing knowing how to tie a bow line is essential. Today this is pretty much a  lost art.

So read up o Essential Knots

Oh you will need at least two pieces of rope to do this, head to the hardware store for that.

Accounting Careers Workshop

Thursday Sept 7 2022

Hello all, 

 

It is my pleasure to provide you with the event flyer for TXCPA San Antonio's 2022 Accounting Careers Workshop flyer! This year's event will be taking place Friday, September 23rd from 5:30PM - 8:30PM at the Norris Conference Center. 

 

The Accounting Careers Workshop provides a great opportunity for your students to get in front of working professional and firms to begin having conversations that will lead to exponential growth in their professional journeys. Experiences and exposure like this are invaluable to budding future accounting professionals, and can have a direct impact on their career paths moving forward. Students will also be able to claim their free TXCPA San Antonio Student Membership which will grant them continued access to future networking and career building opportunities. 

 

To register, students can scan the QR code on the flyer or visit the bit.ly link to take them to the event page. Upon clicking "register" students will be prompted to either login to our website if they already have an account, or create free account, at which point they will be able to complete their registration. Please note that creating a free account is a prerequisite to successfully registering.

 

We hope that you will share this information with your students in the days and weeks to come leading up to the event. While we certainly do not expect any of you go above and beyond by doing this, we have heard from professors in the past that offering some sort of in class incentive for participation can have a tremendous impact on attendance! If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

 

Thank you for your support in fortifying the futures of San Antonio Accounting Professionals!

 

Best,

 

Javi Valdes

Membership/Marketing & Programs Manager 

TXCPA San Antonio

Direct: 210-828-2722

Toll Free: 888-828-8680

www.tx.cpa/sanantonio

 

 

 

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