Membermilestones.

Announcements

Robert J. Frcek, CPA has joined Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co., LLP as director of benefit services ... Arie Wilgenburg has been selected to a two-year term as an accounting fellow by the SEC ...

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Thomas J. Forbes, CPA, has been admitted to the partnership of Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP ... Amy Coy has been accepted into Farber Hass Hurley LLP as managing partner ... Scott M. Sachs will succeed David L. Swartz as Good Swartz Brown & Berns LLP's firm-wide managing partner... Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP welcomed partner Joan E. Manning, CPA to the business management practice... Jeffrey B. Bergman and Craig Vitale have become partners in the Fresno firm of Dritsas, Groom, McCormick, LLP... The Financial Accounting Standards Board selected San Diego State University accounting professor Vita Martin to serve in their post-graduate technical assistant program ... Michael E. Drandell, CPA and CFO of G & K Management Co., Inc. in Culver City has been appointed president-elect of the Affordable Housing Management Association-Pacific Southwest.... Ernst & Young has announced the addition of Bill Sacks to its Pacific Southwest Risk Advisory Services team.

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Accomplishments

Zainer Rinehart Clarke was named one of the Best 25 Small Businesses by Working Mother ... The following CFOs--and CalCPA members--were named CFO of the Year in their respective categories by the Sacramento Business Journal: small private company: Dan Vistica, Sacramento River Cats; medium private company: Dave Roughton, SAFE Credit Union; large private company: Patricia Cochran, VSP Vision Care; publicly traded company: Worthing Jackman, Waste Connections, Inc.; philanthropic organization: John Kniep, Families First; public Agency: Debbie Bettencourt, Folsom Cordova Unified School District.

Firm News

Baker, Peterson and Franklin won the Third Annual Child-Friendly Business Award for First 5 Fresno County ... Farber Hass Hurley LLP opened an office in Valencia.

Members in the News

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David Flamer answered listener's tax questions on KROQ-FM in Los Angeles March '2... Gregg Wind explained tax deductions for home loans on KCBS-TV Feb. 27 ... KTLA-TV in Los Angeles interviewed Ernest Howard Feb. 26 about the impact of the falling dollar ... Johanna Sweaney Salt and Lynette Atchley discussed what to do with tax rebates in the Feb. 26 The (Riverside) Press...