As a partner in a CPA firm that specializes in audits of employee benefit funds or, more specifically, multiemployer Taft-Hartley benefit funds, I can tell you it isn’t easy finding material directly related to our specialty. As a result, we are an approved CPE provider and handle the majority of our staff’s education in-house. It may be a “compliance-driven ritual,” but you get out of it what you put into it, and even our recent peer review team was impressed with the content of our seminars. Our main source of outside education is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
The AICPA has recently addressed our specialty, but I can only imagine how many others are not being addressed. I urge firms to take control of their own education.
Carol Westfall, CPA
Schultheis & Panettieri
Hauppauge, N. Y.
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