PCPS update.

• Position: Private Companies Practice Section

Critical Information for CPA Firms

PCPS is here to help you succeed. How? We look at resources and regulations and consider how they will affect our members--CPA firms. We bring you up-to-date tools and information that shape your practice today and will affect your business in the future.

What can you do now to get ahead of the game? Here are the best resources, sites, information, and events available for CPA firms today. Take advantage of them. Tell us what you need. We're here to help.

AICPA Presents Leadership Conference for Firm Practitioners

Need to step back from your practice and plan for the future? It's not too late to register for the AICPA's "Accounting Firm Leadership" conference. Seize the opportunity to interact with the executive management teams of nationally ranked top 200 accounting firms and gain practical knowledge on how to help expand your firm's services and grow profits. Topics covered include how to:

* Tackle the problems you face in your practice every day.

* Reward and compensate leadership.

* Develop future firm management.

* Grow, using mergers and acquisitions.

The conference will be held in Orlando, FL, November 15-16, 2004. For more information and to register, go to:

https://www.cpa2biz.com/CS2000/Products/CPA2BIZ/ Accounting+Firm+Leadership+Workshop.htm

PCPS/TSCPA National MAP Survey--How to Get Your Results and Use Them to Build Your Practice

If yours is one of the 2,478 firms that responded to this year's National Management of an Accounting Practice (MAP) Survey, you should have already received an e-mail explaining how to obtain your customized results report. This report provides you with detailed benchmarking information regarding salaries, billable hours, service offerings, and expenses from thousands of firms across the United States and allows you to compare data tailored to your firm size, specialty, and region.

If you didn't get a chance to participate in this year's survey, you will still be able to review and analyze the national results, available on www.pcps.org later in November. New this year, the report will also include detailed commentary on CPA firm best practices and big picture take-aways from the survey results.

All survey results are available for FREE to PCPS members. Nonmembers can join PCPS for $35 per CPA in the firm (up to a maximum of $700) to take advantage of this member benefit. Alternatively, non-PCPS members can purchase data reports for $300 with a $100 discount to...