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Dear Members:
Please join your fellow members for CMA/CFM Night
on March 21, 2007 at Tangier Restaurant. Shirley Calvin
Dear Fellow Members:
March is here and Spring is upon us!
Sincerely,
Dean C. Hull II
Bill Choler joined Bruner-Cox LLP in 1997 and was appointed partner in January 2003. Before joining the Bruner-Cox team, Bill worked for a regional accounting and consulting firm based in Chicago, IL and was responsible for helping to establish a Cleveland commercial audit and consulting practice for that firm. Bill is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a BS degree in Business Administration. Bill has more than 20 years of accounting and consulting experience working with manufacturing, construction and wholesale-distribution clients in the following areas: financial accounting, cost accounting, and rate analysis. Bill serves as Director of the firm’s Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution Services Group and, as such, is responsible for guiding internal employee and external client education about the manufacturing and wholesale-distribution industries. He is actively involved in the IMA, the American Production and Inventory Control Society, and the Manufacturing Services Association, which sponsors an annual industry conference that Bill attends each year. Bill is also a member of the AICPA, the Ohio Society of CPAs, and the Construction Financial Management Association. He is also active in the community through his involvement with the Stow/Munroe Falls Rotary Club, the Greater Akron Chamber, and the Summit County United Way Allocation Panel, which distributes funds to United Way agencies.
Lawrence E. Saulino Larry graduated from the University of Detroit with a BS in Accounting and from the University of Michigan with a Juris Doctorate. He holds the following credentials: CPA (retired), attorney, OSCPA member, AICPA member, and Michigan Bar Association member. His professional experience includes his current positions as the co-founder of 2Club Golf and the President of Customer-Driven Solutions LLC. He has served as President & CEO for both Think-A-Move LLC and Consultants and for YRS, Inc., dba Service Plus. He also served as President for S&S Business Services, a subsidiary of CBIZ. He co-founded Spector & Saulino CPAs and was Partner-in-charge, Tax Services of Coopers & Lybrand. Larry is committed to his community and has worked hard to give back through serving as the Chairman of the Greater Akron Chamber (formerly ARDB), as a board member and Chairman of the executive committee for the Northeast Ohio Trade and Economic Consortium, and as the immediate past Chairman of the College of Business Administration (University of Akron) Advancement Council. He is also a past Board member and Treasurer of the Akron Art Museum, a Board member and immediate past president of the Summit Chapter of the American Cancer Society, 1995 Tournament Chairman and Life Trustee of the Northern Ohio Golf Charities, Inc., and founding Board member and former Treasurer of the Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation. Larry was Treasurer of the ballot initiative for Citizens for Summit C.A.R.E.S., a former candidate for the Board, Chair of 4 levy campaigns and chair for the study of facilities and long-range planning for the Revere School District, and Large Gifts Chairman for two capital campaigns for St. Hilary Church. In addition, Larry has been responsible for and involved in many entrepreneurial ventures. He has been and is a shareholder and director and/or advisor to numerous local businesses. Larry and his wife Carolyn have been married for 36 years and live in Bath, OH, where they raised 3 children: Jennifer (now an attorney practicing in Washington, DC), Charles (an attorney practicing in Michigan), and James (now the Communications Director for the City of San Antonio, TX).
The price for the 2006/2007 Tech Session Dinner Meetings will be $25.00 per meeting. The Pre-Tech Sessions will remain at $10.00 per session. Pre-Tech Sessions will begin and end promptly at 5:25 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. respectively.
The Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation provides corporate management and individual Members with an objective measure of knowledge and competence in the field of management accounting.The CMA is an invaluable credential for professional advancement and for broadening professional skills and perspective.
The Board of Directors has decided to form a
Committee to assist in continuing to improve and
develop the CMA Review Courses offered by the
chapter. Gleim is offering a discounted rate for CMA/CFM review materials to IMA members. The member order form can be accessed at http://akron.imanet.org/CMA/Gleim.pdf. For further information contact: E-mail Steve Law (at Home) or E-mail Steve Law (at Work) or phone (330) 666-8395.
Please welcome the following new members:
1-5-07 Lydia Neubrander of SS&G Financial
Services
All Regular Meetings
are on the third Wednesday of the Month
Thursday, April 26, 2007 Preconference
Workshop
Afternoon Session (1:15 – 4:15
PM):
Friday, April 27, 2007,
Conference
Keynote Luncheon Speaker (1:00 PM)
Afternoon Session (2:30 – 4:35 PM)
SAVE THE DATES – April 26th and April
27th (Yellow flyers coming in March)
A company whose controller is an IMA member is
looking for a Bookkeeper / Staff accountant. They are
looking for a person with a degree, or a non-
degreed person with 3-5 years experience. The
person will report to the Controller. They need a
person to work in a team environment and
understands business processes, and business
confidentiality.
Please contact Roy Howarter if you have a job
available or are looking for an employment
opportunity.
Roy
Howarter
- Akron IMA Employment Director, 1-
800-321-5583
Looking for a great way to combine management
accounting and fun this summer? Start planning (and
saving) and arranging your vacation time now to
attend the IMA’s 88th Annual Conference &
Exposition at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge resort in
the spectacular Sonoran Desert near Phoenix, AZ
from June 16-20. In addition to exploring the beauty
of a desert resort (including playing in the Sunday
morning IMA/MEF Golf Classic at the Faldo
Championship course), you can earn up to 30.5 CPE
credits plus five pre-conference sessions. Here are
some of the particulars:
Early registration discount. Register by April 6, as
rates go up $100 after that date. Member rate for
the full Conference package is $945 (includes all
Conference sessions Sunday through Wednesday,
access to the Solution Showcase exhibit hall and
networking reception, 3 Conference breakfasts, 3
lunches (including a Brown Bag discussion group
with
70 to 80 possible topics), and the Annual Dinner and
After Party). If your non-accountant spouse/friend
would like to accompany you but enjoy Phoenix on
their own during the day, their only IMA cost is $75
for an exhibit hall guest pass and/or $95 for an
Annual Reception & Dinner guest ticket.
Daily CPE sessions end by 5:15 PM, giving you plenty
of time to enjoy the Arizona nightlife.Attire for
the Conference sessions is business casual (slacks,
polo shirts, sweaters, blazers, blouses, and
comfortable shoes). The IMA Annual Dinner on
Wednesday evening is formal attire optional.
To ensure proper CPE credit, attendees will scan in
and out of each session, covering twelve keynote
sessions, 25 concurrent sessions, seven general
sessions, five concurrent tracks, and –new this year –
a learning track panel discussion to facilitate
dialogue between attendees and experts. Featured
speakers include FASB Chairman Robert Herz, former
IMA Chair and Controller of the State of Nevada Kim
Wallin, and our own Ron Riebe, VP of KeyBank.
Lodging at the Marriott is at a special conference
rate of $149/night. The resort features wildflower
gardens, swimming pools, lakes, waterways, and golf
course or mountain views.
Register soon for a fabulous time in June. For more
information, contact Susan Bender
.
Securing top management accountants today
requires enhanced recruiting strategies. The
combination of business growth and a shrinking labor
pool are driving demand for accounting professionals.
As a result, hiring managers must understand what
matters to job candidates and be adept at selling their
firms.
In a recent Robert Half International survey, chief
financial officers (CFOs) were asked to name what
they felt are the most important considerations for
candidates when evaluating employment offers. The
top answer was salary (27 percent), followed by
company stability (24 percent) and work
environment/corporate culture (22 percent). With these
responses in mind, following are tips for promoting
your company:
Be salary smart. Research current compensation
standards and trends to gain a sense of what
management accountant candidates in your area may
seek. Excellent resources include the annual Robert
Half Salary Guide and the Occupational Outlook
Handbook from the U.S. Department of Labor’s
Bureau of Labor Statistics. To secure the industry’s
best and brightest, consider offering slightly more
than your competitors. If you can’t offer as competitive
a salary as you’d like, consider sweetening the pot
with a signing bonus or extra vacation days. And be
sure to herald other appealing benefits your
organization offers, such as bonus opportunities,
comprehensive health coverage and tuition
reimbursement.
Showcase your firm’s steadiness. Money matters, but
so does job security. Highlight your firm’s history of
stability and prosperity. In addition, if your department
typically promotes from within, explain the
advancement opportunities. Describing potential
career paths for the position can help demonstrate
your commitment to the long-term growth of your team
members.
Emphasize the positive environment. Leverage your
firm’s unique culture when talking with prospective
employees. Does your firm help accountants better
manage professional and personal obligations
through flexible work hours or on-site child-care
facilities? Do you support the community through
volunteer initiatives, corporate philanthropy or
matching-gift programs? Do you have employee-
recognition or mentorship programs? Do firm leaders
solicit feedback from staff at all levels? All of these
efforts can resonate with applicants who value
dynamic and nurturing work environments.
Today’s top accounting professionals likely have
many options. To remain competitive, understand
what they seek in an employer and then emphasize
the factors that distinguish your firm.
Accountemps is the world’s first and largest
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placement of accounting, finance and bookkeeping
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and New Zealand, and offers online job search
services at
www.accountemps.com.
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