Detail Volunteer to Enchance Your Career and The Profession   Oleh:  Allen, Stephanie ; Harper, Melinda Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Journal of Accountancy vol. 183 no. 2 (Feb. 1983), page 41-46. Topik: volunteerism; volunteer; career; profession Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ85.17 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel W hy would any accountant - with barely enough hours in the day to plow through the regular work tasks on a to - do list, let alone have a personal life - volunteer to participate on an American Institute of CPAs committee ? Many are finding that volunteering pays off. Every year, about 2,900 people apply for approximately 320 openings on roughly 100 AICPA committees. From the AICPAs perspective, the accounting profession needs a diverse volunteer population with a wide range of technical and leadership skills and vision in order to position itself for the dynamic future where CPAs are the premier information professionals. The AICPA also must represent the diversity of the profession in terms of firm size, geographic location, area of specialty and business venue, as well as sex, race and ethnicity. For the last decade or so, the AICPA has taken initiatives to increase some segments committee participation. For example, 12 years ago, the AICPA charged the upward mobility of women committee, now the women and family issues executive committee (WFIEC), with recommending strategies to reduce obstacles in the career paths of women - including identifying and eliminating barriers to AICPA committee participation. In 1992, the WFIEC s predecessor, after studying the committee appointment process, recommended the AICPA gather statistics annually on the number of women volunteering for, selected for and presently in leadership positions on committees. Each incoming chairman of the AICPA board of directors now uses that information when putting together the AICPA committees and selecting chairpersons. In addition, the WFIEC implemented a strategy of suggesting candidates for committee service directly to other committees, a method that also is used to find other minority volunteers. In 1994, the WFIEC also began asking state CPA societies and other organizations, such as the American Womans Society of CPAs and professional groups in industry, government and education, to encourage female members to submit their names. These efforts have caused the voice of women on AICPA committees to grow so that, in the 1995 - 96 committee year, 20% of all committee members were women - a figure that more closely mirrors the 24 % of AICPA members who are women today. The 1996 - 97 AICPA board chairman, Robert Mednick, recognizes that the AICPA still faces challenges in its efforts to place women on committees. The five AICPA management consulting services (MCS) committees illustrate the challenge. For the current committee year, no women applied for the MCS executive committee, and five were selected from the 11 who volunteered for the other four committees. In addition, the AICPA is concerned about reaching the other groups that should be better represented on committees, including minorities, CPAs in business and industry and small firms. The Institute has also begun to explore the idea of virtual committees, which would meet and discuss issues online via the Internet. These could absorb some of the spillover of interested applicants who dont get chosen for the committees. They also would help CPAs who, with so much downsizing and reengineering going on in the business world, don't have the luxury of extra time to volunteer but would still like to get involved, albeit on a more limited basis. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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