Thanks for Giving Back on CPA Day of Service!

The fourth annual CPA Day of Service was a smashing success, and it's all thanks to volunteers like you! CPAs across Virginia took a day to give back to their communities at the end of Virginia CPA Week. It's just another way CPAs help the communities where they live and work.

 

Here are some pictures from CPA Day of Service! We took some of them ourselves, and some have been emailed to us by members and firms who answered the call and volunteered. If you volunteered on CPA Day of Service and don't see yourself represented here, email your pictures to Tracey Zink or Chip Knighton at the VSCPA!

 

First up, we have volunteers from Kositzka, Wicks & Company, who cleaned up outside areas at the Carpenter's Shelter in Alexandria:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteers from Watkins Meegan prepared bagged meals at the Embry Food Shelter in Reston:

 

 

The Richmond office of BDO, including Kevin Murphy, volunteered with the Comfort Zone Camp:
 

 

Volunteers from Valderas & Fishel cleaned up trails for the James River Park System in Richmond:
 

 

Volunteers from Harris, Hardy, Johnstone & Co. prepared meals at the Central Virginia Food Bank:

 

 

The Richmond chapter of the American Society of Women Accountants (ASWA) did a variety of tasks, including cleaning and ironing donated clothes, at the Sophie House in Glen Allen:
 

 

Members of the VSCPA's Thomas Jefferson chapter put together packets for child care providers in Charlottesville:

 

 

And finally, VSCPA staff got in on the act, too, holding a book drive for the Children's Museum of Richmond. Here, staff members (clockwise from top left) Rocio Gibbs, Jane Hayes, Jenny Hansen, Laura Cobb, Talley King and Tracey Zink pose with the haul:

 

 

Thanks to everyone who took the time to volunteer for CPA Day of Service. We hope to see you again next September!

 

Happy Virginia CPA Week From the VSCPA!

Virginia CPA Week is here! Gov. Bob McDonnell has issued a proclamation (PDF) recognizing Sept. 16–22, 2012, as Virginia Certified Public Accountants Week.

All week long, the VSCPA will be posting videos of your VSCPA colleagues discussing how they got their start in the accounting profession and what they like the most about their jobs. First up is Kristin White, CPA, of Wells, Coleman & Co.:



To help raise awareness of how CPAs protect Virginia taxpayers, the VSCPA is holding free, CPA-led money management workshops for the public, as well as a sold-out Nonprofit Finance Seminar for non-finance nonprofit executives on Wednesday. And on Friday, CPAs across the state will come together to serve their communities on CPA Day of Service.

Visit VSCPA.com all week long to learn about how your fellow CPAs got started in the profession and what keeps them coming back to serve Virginia taxpayers.