Join us in Olympia on January 15 for one of the year’s most important advocacy events. Learn about current issues facing the profession on a national and state level. Most importantly, meet with your legislators not just as constituents but as representatives of the CPA profession.

Scholarship applications for the Washington CPA Foundation’s next award year are live! With 20 applications started less than a month into the application period (which ends February 17th) it seems that word has perhaps, finally, gotten out.

There are some new rules in town. At the Public Rules Hearing held on July 26, 2019, the State Board of Accountancy approved several continuing professional education rules. Many of the changes clarify or align more closely with the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) and go into effect January 1, 2020.

Generation Z is disrupting recruiting, training, managing, and more in 2019 and beyond. They are entering the workplace. Because of their high-tech and hyper-connected upbringing, they will bring a new set of behaviors, expectations, and preferences into the workplace. Read about the seven changes Generation Z employees will create.

Representatives Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) and Andy Barr (R-K.Y.) introduced the Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution, H. Con. Res. 68, with 103 additional cosponsors. It provides “for a joint hearing of the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch.”