Arizona Chapter: the heat is on--but it's a dry heat!(Chapter News ...)

• Author: Sabharwal, Mandeep

The officers of the Arizona Chapter met during the summer of 2011 and decided to shake things up. Given the chapter's small size, its meetings have historically been one-hour breakfast sessions with the exception of a full-day SALT seminar. This year from the get-go the chapter decided to do things differently. A membership survey sought feedback on possible areas of improvement, including what the chapter can do differently to increase attendance. The answer was clear: In these tough times, the chapter needs to offer CPE for local events and ensure that there is much "bang for the buck."

The chapter started off with two-hour meeting hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers at its offices in downtown Phoenix on Methods and Audits, two topics you cannot go wrong with. In November, the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan presented a full-day seminar on SALT topics from cloud computing to state appeal process to a packed training room. The event was hosted by one of the local companies, APS.

The chapter quickly followed this seminar with...