Week July 15 – 19
Communications SCACPA understands the importance of giving back to the community that gives so much to the Association. We donated to the Lexington Nationals Dixie Youth baseball team to [...]
It’s Your Turn: SCACPA Wants to Hear Your #WhyCPA Stories
The start of this past tax season saw the kickoff of SCACPA’s #WhyCPA public service campaign. We created humorous – but truthful – statements that we shared over social [...]
How to Convince Your Boss to Cover Your SCACPA Membership Dues
If you are a CPA in South Carolina, chances are you have heard of the South Carolina Association of CPAs. After all, SCACPA is the only organization looking out [...]
SC News and Tax Roundup: Charleston is Travel + Leisure’s No. 1 U.S. City for 7 Straight Years
Charleston is Travel + Leisure’s No. 1 U.S. City for 7 Straight Years Charleston beat out Santa Fe and New Orleans to be named the No. 1 U.S. city by [...]
Galasso A&A Video Blog: New State and Local Ethics Interpretations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg_AfW2qEUk The AICPA has issued a new interpretation related to the ethics code for state and local governments. This interpretation helps identify the entities related to a state [...]
Week July 8 – 12
From everyone at SCACPA, happy belated July 4th, and happy new membership year! We're excited to start off the 2019-2020 year with you at the first CPE event of [...]
View from the Dome: General Assembly Returns to Override 25 of 28 McMaster’s Budget Vetoes
View from the Dome – June 28, 2019 By Copper Dome Strategies, LLC The General Assembly returned to Columbia one final time on Tuesday, June 25, to deal with the governor's vetoes [...]
The South Carolina Tax Team Challenges You to a Friday of Advanced Tax Planning for Businesses on July 12 in Charleston
The time is NOW to help your business clients with tax strategies for 2020! Most strategies for reducing federal income tax liabilities require analysis, fact gathering, comparisons of alternatives, [...]
SC News and Tax Roundup: SC Motorists Will Pay More at the Pump in July, But When Will New Road Construction Speed Up?
As SC Drivers Pay More Gas Tax in July, Road Construction is Slow to Take Off Monday will mark when South Carolina drivers must pay 2 cents more per [...]
Week June 24-28
Communications Over half of existing members have renewed their commitment to SCACPA! We’re thrilled to continue to serve you under the All Inclusive Membership model in the coming year. [...]
Reactions to IRS Charitable Contributions Final Ruling: Here’s How Exceptional SC Executive Director Says Adjustments Are Still a Possibility
On June 11, the IRS published Treasury Decision 9864, which finalizes proposed regulations designed to clarify the relationship between state and local tax credits and federal tax rules for charitable contribution deductions. [...]
Lynn Nichols Sorts Through SALT Impacts on IRS’s Charitable Contributions Final Ruling
Note: SCACPA federal tax expert E. Lynn Nichols has looked closely at June 11’s Treasury Decision 9864, which finalizes proposed regulations designed to clarify the relationship between state and [...]
SC News and Tax Roundup: Pair of Lowcountry Counties are Learning Their Property Tax Reassessments
Berkeley County Property Tax Reassessment Notices Sent; Dorchester to Follow Property tax bills changes are arriving outside Charleston’s metro area. Reassessment notices for land and buildings have been sent [...]
We Answer Your Questions about Surgent On-Demand Self-Study
As we near the end of the membership year (June 30, 2019), you might have questions about how to use the final remaining hours of your 2018-19 CPE Bank. Because [...]
Galasso A&A Video Blog: New Data Collection Form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3VGeKWfdJA&t= The Office of Management and Budget has issued the new Data Collection Form for use in years 2019 through 2021. There are a quite a few changes auditors [...]
Week June 17 – 21
Communications Nearly half of existing members have renewed their commitment to SCACPA! We’re thrilled to continue to serve you under the All Inclusive Membership model in the coming year. [...]
SCACPA’s Social Media Snapshot
Social media is a part of our everyday lives these days, and we're thankful you choose to look to SCACPA's social media for updates within the Association and news [...]
Galasso A&A Video Blog: Amendments to Description Concept Materiality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUfNswwcTs The AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board issued an exposure draft of a proposed SAS andproposed SSAE titled “Amendments to the Description of the Concept of Materiality.” When effective, the proposed amendments would [...]
SC News and Tax Roundup: Here’s Why May was Record Month for Cargo Volume at Port of Charleston
May was Record Month for Cargo Volume at Port of Charleston The State Ports Authority announced that the 204,457 containers moved through the Port of Charleston in May broke a [...]
SCACPA Student Member Part of Winning USC Team at Deloitte Audit Innovation Campus Challenge
SCACPA sends its congratulations to Student Member Katie Bergey, who was part of a team of six University of South Carolina accounting students who won the annual Deloitte Audit [...]