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Florida Senate - 2005 (NP) SR 2694
By Senator Lynn
7-1724-05 See HR
1 Senate Resolution No. ____
2 A resolution recognizing April 20, 2005, as
3 "Florida Institute of Certified Public
4 Accountants Day" in Florida.
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6 WHEREAS, on April 20, 1905, the Florida Society of
7 Accountants, now the Florida Institute of Certified Public
8 Accountants (FICPA), was formed in order to uphold the highest
9 educational and ethical standards of the accounting profession
10 while ensuring its continued growth and success, and
11 WHEREAS, from 1905, when legislative efforts of the
12 society resulted in Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward's
13 signing of Florida's first accountancy law, through 2004, when
14 the FICPA supported legislation relating to licensure and a
15 mandatory ethics course, the organization has worked to
16 promote the highest standards of professionalism and to
17 protect the needs of the general public, and
18 WHEREAS, in 1979, the FICPA successfully supported
19 legislation that, in 1983, enabled Florida to become the first
20 major state to implement the 150-hour education requirement
21 for CPA candidates to further ensure that the public receives
22 the services of educated, tested, and licensed professionals,
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24 WHEREAS, in 1992, the FICPA sought support from the
25 Florida Legislature to create the Division of Certified Public
26 Accounting, and
27 WHEREAS, the FICPA has gone to great lengths to assist
28 in the establishment and, since 1992, the funding of an
29 unlicensed activity public awareness campaign that has
30 resulted in the equivalent of $11 million in airtime, through
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Florida Senate - 2005 (NP) SR 2694
7-1724-05 See HR
1 $1.65 million of CPA license fees, developed to protect the
2 public from illegal activities, and
3 WHEREAS, the FICPA established an educational
4 foundation in 1959 which has distributed more than $1.7
5 million in scholarships to accounting students and
6 universities and has created a High School Coordinators
7 program that has placed 660 volunteer certified public
8 accountants in over 585 high schools in Florida to encourage
9 students to consider a career in accounting, and
10 WHEREAS, in 1998, in order to assist minority students
11 in completing their fifth year of college accounting
12 education, the FICPA sought legislation that created the
13 Minority Scholarship Program, funded solely by CPA license
14 fees, that has awarded $408,000 to 79 students; and in that
15 same year, in an effort to encourage rising minority students
16 to explore career opportunities in business, finance, or
17 accounting, the FICPA created a Minority Summer Residency
18 Program to enable high school seniors to spend a week on a
19 college campus, and
20 WHEREAS, in 1998, the FICPA worked cooperatively in a
21 public-private partnership with the Florida Department of
22 Revenue to create the Certified Audit Program, which, since
23 1999, has recovered over $6.9 million in underpaid taxes to
24 the state, NOW, THEREFORE,
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26 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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28 That the Senate, in honor of the 100-year anniversary
29 of the FICPA, recognizes April 20, 2005, as "Florida Institute
30 of Certified Public Accountants Day" in Florida.
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Florida Senate - 2005 (NP) SR 2694
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1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution
2 be presented to Lloyd "Buddy" Turman, Chief Executive Officer
3 and Executive Director of the FICPA, as a tangible token of
4 the sentiments of the Florida Senate.
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