- Chairman's Message
- CPE
- Convergence 2022
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Chairman's Message
by Sharon Lukich, CPA
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The BIG news for April? Tax Deadline? Start of baseball season? NO, of course not! It’s CONVERGENCE 2022!
Our annual one-day CPE conference is just over a month away, May 16, and registration is open and running! If you haven’t already registered, I would strongly invite you to do so now as seating is limited, and you’ll want to be there.
We are thrilled to be back – LIVE – at the Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star, the world headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys. This year’s conference will feature 5 tracks, your choice of 26 sessions, including a luncheon keynote address presented on the Cowboys practice field by Chris Cassidy, former Navy SEAL, astronaut, Bronze Star recipient and current President and CEO of The National Medal of Honor Museum. In addition to Mr. Cassidy, the event features many nationally-noted authorities on a wealth of important topics to the accounting and financial services industries.
Also, it is not too late to sign on as a Convergence sponsor. You or your firm’s support would be most appreciated, and you would receive an excellent package of benefits worth well in excess of the cost. If you would like to sign up, please contact Meg Campbell at 972-960-8311, or by email at mcampbell@cpadallas.org, and add your name to the list of our fine sponsor organizations.
Speaking of conference sponsors, we hope you’ll plan to join us on Thursday, April 28, at Blue Mesa Grill for our Thirsty Thursday spotlighting our Convergence sponsors. These are the wonderful companies and people who make it possible for us to bring you an event of this quality at such an affordable price. Thirsty Thursdays are a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and make some new ones too, so come out and have some fun with the best folks around, your fellow TXCPA Dallas members and our Convergence sponsors!
As a bonus to the Convergence event, we’re offering an Ethics course at a special conference rate of $50 to members. This class will be taught by Kathy Kapka, veteran Ethics instructor and former TXCPA Chairman. Maybe you’ll want to take advantage of the $199 room rate offered to us by the Omni, reserve a hotel room for Sunday night, enjoy the area’s entertainment scene and attend Convergence the next day. If this sounds like a plan, click here.
If you’d like to give some time this weekend to a worthy cause, we have a group of volunteers who will be working a shift at Feed My Starving Children. This organization receives donations, purchases and packages nutritious food boxes which are then shipped to partners all over the globe for distribution to the world’s most needy. If you’re interested in supporting this excellent mission with an hour and a half of your time, we hope you’ll join us on Saturday at Feed My Starving Children.
The 2022 Leadership Development Academy term begins in June. We are very big on our LDA. In its 13 years of existence, it has produced many exceptional young leaders, both for their respective firms and for the Chapter. If you would like to be a part of this prestigious group, or you know someone who would make a great candidate, please submit an application by Tuesday, May 31, for Early Bird pricing. The new Class of 2022 will be announced in the July newsletter.
So whether you’re coming down to the Busy Season wire or gearing up for the Rangers’ season opener tomorrow, we hope you’ll take some time now to register for the hottest ticket in town – Convergence 2022! See you there!
Sharon Lukich, CPA
Board Chairman, 2021-22
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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION |
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For more information and to register for these events,
click on the course title.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
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Register NOW!!!
Convergence 2022
We invite you to register now for
our hallmark event of the year
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Monday, May 16, 2022
The Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star
Bonus!
Low-Cost, 4-Hour, State-Approved
Sunday, May 15, 2022
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star
Click here for more information and to register for
Convergence 2022.
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Thank You to our
Convergence 2022 Sponsors
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April Thirsty Thursday
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Join us for our monthly networking event on
Thursday, April 28
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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14866 Montfort Drive
Dallas, TX 75254
(Plenty of parking, including an underground garage!)
This month’s social event will be extra special
as we welcome our Convergence 2022 Sponsors!
Come and enjoy a great time, make new friends
and show some TXCPA Dallas hospitality to
the wonderful people who make our
Convergence event possible.
There is no cost for this event,
but please use the link below to let us know you’re coming.
All TXCPA Dallas members are welcome!
See you there!
To RSVP for the event, please click here.
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Feed My Starving Children
Saturday, April 9, 2022
On Saturday, April 9,
join us for a community outreach event:
Feed My Starving Children
Saturday, April 9, 2022
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
1680 N. Glenville Drive, Suite 300
Richardson, TX 75081
Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) offers volunteers a one-of-a-kind experience. You’ll hand-pack rice, soy, dried vegetables and a nutritionally complete blend of vitamins and minerals into bags which are then sealed, boxed, placed on pallets and shipped to our incredible partners working hard to reach the neediest children around the world. Through volunteering at FMSC, you’ll get the chance to impact hundreds of kids in a single packing shift. You’ll experience what it’s like to make a tangible difference today. Feed My Starving Children meals are produced by volunteers in Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas and all around the United States through MobilePack events.
To register for this event, click here.
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Connor William Airis, CPA
Ogboda Imdad Alamon, CPA
Stacy Eliopoulos Andreotes, CPA
Ibukun Paul Anthony, CPA
Matthew James Batcher, CPA
Robert Edward Bates, CPA
Odette Nano Benico, CPA
Lakeita Raquel Bradley, CPA
Yoshino Kinjo Bradley, CPA
Benjamin August Brunken, CPA
Quincy Carlyle Bynum, Sr., Student
Charlene Carpenter, CPA
Charles Thomas Champion, CPA
Hunter Livingston Chastain, CPA
Brooks Hill Cheatham, CPA
Samantha Caroline Choucair, CPA
Mark Christian, CPA
Thomas Brian Colket, CPA
Katherine Michelle Cotter, CPA
Sadie Abigail Cuevas, CPA
Samuel Charles Davis, CPA
Rachel Marie Dean, CPA
Hayden Baker Dennington, CPA
Neelu Deva, CPA
Kelsey Nicole Dickerson, CPA
Claire Elizabeth Dorrell, CPA
Vincent Edward Emanuel, CPA
Natalie Marie Erb, CPA
Isabel Esclamado, CPA
Mayte Espinosa Lopez, CPA
Kennedy Leighton Farris, CPA
Micah Stephen Fewin, Candidate
J. Wyatt Fimbel, CPA
Jodie Lynn Fisher, CPA
Matthew Stephen Fox, CPA
Andrew Avery Fuller, CPA
Mohsin Gilani, Student
Nicole Lindsey Goldsmith, CPA
James Grafton, Student
Bryan D. Granhold, Candidate
James Porter Hendrick, CPA
Tien Thi Xuan Hoang, CPA
Gretchen Ann Holthaus, CPA
Meagan Holyfield, CPA
Fullah Kamara, CPA
Madeleine Blaine Keiper, CPA
Holly Elizabeth Kendrick, CPA
Anika Ibnat Khandoker, CPA
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Jonathan Craig King, Student
Joyce Lyn Kondner, CPA
Thomas Richard Kutilek, CPA
Yeonju Lee, CPA
Thomas Lefler, Candidate
Wenxin Li, CPA
Yi Li, CPA
Amanda Knabe Manoogian, CPA
Carmen Clare Marley, CPA
Kristin Alane Martin, CPA
Parker Alan Mason, CPA
Peter Dennis Mataragas, CPA
Hayley Blythe Maun, CPA
Kathryn Paige Mckiddy, CPA
Eugene Francis Mcmanus, CPA
Mason Gregory Michell, CPA
Anthony James Miller, CPA
Caroline Page Miller, CPA
Natalie Kay Moon, CPA
Jomara Murillo-Farmakis, Candidate
Cameron Nettles, Candidate
Kyle Richard Nordhagen, CPA
Mary Margaret Pate, CPA
Nicholas Paul Perry, CPA
Natalie Colleen Pliura, CPA
Bailey Price, Acctg Pro
Kathryn Susan Rector, CPA
Jesse David Rehling, CPA
Nikki Lee Richards, CPA
Vicente Mercado Ruiz, Candidate
Jacob Robert Siadek, CPA
Sonia Siddiqui, CPA
Vanessa Singhdillon, Acctg Pro Sydney Michelle Smith, CPA
Joseph Daniel Spano, CPA
Thomas Anthony Steis, CPA
Lindsey Lynn Stoldorf, CPA
Owen Matthew Tuttle, CPA
Alfredo G. Uribe, CPA
Jacquelyn Rachel Valdes, CPA
Martin Van Der Merwe, CPA
Jennifer Alejandra Ventura, CPA
Danielle Yen Villamin, CPA
Alexander Robert Wagner, CPA
Nicole Elizabeth Weinmann, CPA
Douglas Bradford Wells, CPA
Jackson Moore Young, CPA
Ziaul H. Zia, CPA
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TXCPA Dallas
Scholarship Winner Spotlight
Each month, we will spotlight one of this year's TXCPA Dallas Scholarship winners. Join us now in getting to know University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) graduate accounting student Juliet Tosto and welcoming her to TXCPA Dallas.
If you ask Juliet Tosto what convinced her to be a CPA, she'll probably tell you it was a move from Illinois. After the recession of 2008, her mother was laid off her teaching job, along with many other Chicago educators. This unfortunate event led to the family's move to Texas. Juliet says it was enlightening "to see the difference between funded communities and communities in economic distress." In Texas she saw "Sold" signs on houses, multimillion dollar football stadiums being built, and happy people, unlike Illinois where the signs on houses read "Foreclosure", sports and arts program budgets were being cut, and her "neighbors wore stress upon their faces." Juliet knew then that she wanted to be one of the happy people and decided that she needed a relatively stable job in an industry that supported the financial health of businesses so that they, in turn, would have the ability to contribute back to the well-being of their employees and communities.
At UTD Juliet received the Comet, Phi Theta Kappa and Ray D. Botsford Scholarships. She was a Professional Program in Accounting student and was on the Dean's List. She is a member of Beta Alpha Psi and has served as the Director of Public Relations for Phi Theta Kappa. She has volunteered with the National Breast Cancer Foundation and as a volunteer tax preparer with the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program. Juliet received her Bachelors degree in Accounting cum laude in May of 2021 and will receive her Masters in May of this year. She served as a Spring 2021 tax intern for RSM US, LLP and will join their Dallas office as a full-time employee upon receipt of her Accounting Masters.
TXCPA Dallas welcomes and congratulates Juliet Tosto.
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Annual TXCPA Awards
TXCPA Dallas is Accepting Nominations
Do you know of a TXCPA Dallas member who has exhibited a strong commitment to the accounting profession? Someone who makes substantial service contributions to your community? Is the next Young CPA of the Year in your hometown?
TXCPA Dallas is accepting nominations for the annual awards given by our State society TXCPA. Categories include: Meritorious Service to the Accounting Profession in Texas, Distinguished Public Service, Distinguished Member, Outstanding TXCPA Committee Chairman, Young CPA of the Year and Honorary Member. Learn about the awards criteria and submit your nominations to Laura McFadden by April 18.
Nominate a deserving member for one of TXCPA’s service awards today!
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TXCPA Dallas Scholarship Program
Applications are Ready!
TXCPA Dallas promotes accounting as a career choice. An important component of this mission is to provide financial support to senior and graduate accounting students at local universities who plan to become active CPAs in the Dallas chapter area. If you or someone you know would like to apply for one of our 2022-23 scholarship awards, click here for more information and an application.
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Auto-Renew and Skip the Invoice
TXCPA’s auto renewal program makes your annual membership process easier than ever before. Check the box on the reverse side of your renewal form or on the online payment screen to enroll in the program. You will receive a confirmation email when your enrollment is complete. Then, each year you can relax knowing that your member dues will be paid automatically. No more risk of putting aside the invoice and finding that you’re not enjoying full TXCPA benefits every day! Add auto renewal to your member profile at tx.cpa or contact us at membership@tx.cpa for personal assistance.
Update Your TXCPA Member Profile
TXCPA members can update their information online. Now is the perfect time to check your member profile and be sure we have all of the most accurate information on record, as well as your interest areas that help us best serve you. Your login information will be the same username and password as your member login at tx.cpa. If you don’t remember your password, you can use the retrieval link provided on that page or simply call our member services team to have a temporary password set. You can reach us Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Central Time) by calling 800-428-0272 and selecting option 1.
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