Head of the class.

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Wendee Shinsato of Los Angeles and Irene Altman of San Francisco are the recipients of the John F. Forbes Award, given to CPA candidate(s) who receive the highest score on the Uniform CPA Exam. Each also receives $1,000 from CalCPA's Accounting Education Committee.

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Altman, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Shinsato, a graduate of Yale and Hawaii Pacific University, each achieved a score of 388 out of 400 on the four-part CPA Exam, which they took in 2006. Altman works at KPMG in San Francisco, and Shinsato is employed by the...