The following list of core services is based upon research by the Vision Project Team and State Societies.

Select the top five overall that you believe to be the most important for the future of the CPA profession, ten to fifteen years from now, say in the year 2011.

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Gender:	Optional Male Female
Age:	Optional 35 or under 36 to 45 over 45
Employment category: *	Required Non. CPA CPA in Public Practice CPA in Industry CPA in Government CPA in Education Other	other:

ONLY YOUR TOP 5 SELECTIONS WILL BE ENTERED!

			Pick 5
A.	Auditing
		Formal checking of financial records.
B.	Assurance
		Attesting to the reliability of information and systems.
C.	Tax Compliance
		Complete tax form preparation.
D.	Tax Advice and Planning
		Provide tax advice.
E.	Financial Planning
		Provide advice in the broad areas of financial planning.
F.	Financial Management
		Provide management of financial assets.
G.	Organizational Performance
		Provide services that improve organizational performance beyond reporting only financial figures.
H.	Recovery Services
		Provide advice and planning for companies in financial trouble or bankruptcy proceedings.
I.	Management Consulting
		Provide advice to organizations on management and performance improvements.
J.	Financial Reporting
		Provide accounting figures in a format conducive to making financial decisions.
K.	International Services
		Provide services in the international arena such as cross-border tax planning, multi-national company mergers, multi-national company joint ventures, etc.
L.	Lobbying
		Provide services for lobbying on financial regulation.
M.	Strategic Planning
		Provide an integrated understanding of future business implications and organizational performance issues.
N.	Manage outsourcing of direct and indirect compliance work.
		Breaking out work on a cost and specialist basis creates a need for increased management skills.
O.	Technology Services
		Provide services in systems analysis, information management, and system security.
P.	Risk and Control Assessments
		Assessing risk and control systems
Q.	Risk and Control Compliance
		A follow-up procedure to the assessment of control systems is an actual testing procedure.
R.	New Assurance Services
		Develop new types of services such as pensions for the aging population, public, quasi-government sectors.
S.	Systems Service
		Analysis and management of technology and process systems.
T.	Contingency Based Services
		Monitoring and verifying business processes such as royalties and tax payments.
U.	Other: Please enter additional Services below.

    

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