MTCPA in the Press

Annette Hill, a certified public accountant and principal in the Butte office of Pinion, recently received the Distinguished Service Award at the Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants’ annual conference held at Fairmont.

The Montana Society of CPAs (MTCPA) is pleased to announce the second year of Accounting Opportunities Experience, a collaboration between state CPA societies and the AICPA to raise awareness of accounting career opportunities among high school students.

The AICPA has formed an advisory group representing a broad spectrum of the accounting profession that will help shape a national strategy to address the profession’s talent shortage, including accounting students who go on to obtain a CPA license.

You may have seen a news story about one of the many tax credits that have been proposed during session this year. Maybe it was related to a topic you support and as you read you were surprised to see that the Montana Society of CPAs was the lone opponent to the bill. So why is the Society opposed to tax credit?

The Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants, or CPAs, said it’s been generally supportive of the administration’s efforts to reduce the number of policies and “red tape.” Allen Lloyd, chief executive for the society, said often government adds more policies while forgetting to update and eliminate old, outmoded ones.

Annette Hill, a certified public accountant and principal in the Butte office of Pinion, recently received the Distinguished Service Award at the Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants’ annual conference held at Fairmont.

MTCPA member - Rick Reisig - among the list.

A Montana State University graduate student was one of fewer than 100 students nationwide to be recognized this fall with a scholarship aimed at increasing the diversity of the accounting profession.