Frequency of CPA letter increases; full edition to be available online.

• Position: News update

As part of the AICPA's efforts to continually increase and improve member communications, starting in Sept. we will begin publishing The CPA Letter 12 times a year (up from 10 issues). What's more, starting with the May 2003 issue, each issue of the newsletter will be available online in its entirety (the online version previously only featured selected articles), and is scheduled to be live on www.aicpa.org by the 5th of the month. By using the Web, we can publish more frequently and speed up delivery by as much as two weeks, as well as contain costs.

While moving to the electronic environment, we wanted The CPA Letter to look exactly as it would have if it were printed. The newsletter will appear in PDF format, which is easy to read and easy to print. You can save it to your hard drive and view later, or simply use your computer's print function to print out all the pages in the file. When you read the newsletter online, you can click on the links in the PDF to go to other Web sites. To further facilitate use, each issue of the newsletter will have its own home page providing a "Top Stories" section for the month's most important articles and news (in HTML format), a link to the downloadable PDF file of the complete text, and a link for all the member-segment supplements produced that...