New guide helps CPAs decide whether to register as investment advisers.

Are you providing investment advice? This question is more difficult to answer than most advisers realize. Whether you believe you are in the business of providing investment advice or not, all advisers who touch the areas of estate, tax, retirement, insurance or investment planning should educate themselves on what the Securities and Exchange Commission believes to be investment advice. A new publication available only to AICPA members, The CPA's Guide to Investment Adviser Registration, provides guidance about registration requirements and explains the complex issues involved. Click here to access the free guide (enter your AICPA Web site user name and password at the prompt).

Economic Sentiment Turns Cautiously Optimistic Among CFOs and CPA Executives as Pessimism Eases, Neutrality Rises

Pessimism about the U.S. economy among chief financial officers and senior-level executive CPAs eased in the second quarter, according to the results of the AICPA/UNC Kenan-Flagler Business and Industry Economic Outlook Survey.

Fifty-two percent of CPA executives expressed pessimism about the U.S. economy over the next 12 months, a decline of 30-percentage points from the first quarter's all-time high of 83% of respondents who had said they were "pessimistic" or "very pessimistic." Optimism rose in the current quarter...

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