By William J. Hayes, managing editor, Pennsylvania CPA Journal

Those of us at the PICPA who work on the Pennsylvania CPA Journal are very lucky. The PICPA volunteers who serve on the Pennsylvania CPA Journal Editorial Board are wholly committed to the success of the magazine. They come to our annual meeting, which took place this year on Wednesday, May 15, at PICPA’s Philadelphia headquarters, with boundless ideas for features. Thanks to the preparation and efforts of members, our meetings run like clockwork and result in a schedule of new magazines that always inform and educate.

The editorial calendar for the 2019-2020 cycle of the Pennsylvania CPA Journal is once again filled with informative, provocative features that will keep you up-to-date with developments affecting the CPA profession.

In fall 2019, readers will get a trio of features covering topics as widespread as transitioning your career from for-profit to nonprofit, calculating business income losses for individuals, and taking risk assessments from paper to practice. The winter 2020 issue will cover everything from the future of accounting to the nuts-and-bolts of the present with articles on robotic process automation, Keystone Opportunity Zones, and anticipated guidance on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Life expectancy continues to rise in the Unites States. But what does that mean for retirement planning? That will be a question asked by one of our features in the spring 2020 Pennsylvania CPA Journal. Along with this piece, we will also be offering features on building and motivating a finance team and the use of non-GAAP measures to gauge the success of a company. The summer 2020 edition will have a feature on audit data analytics, and then the features will take on a greenish hue: an article on the cannabis industry and its effects on the forensic accounting field, and CPA firms’ role in conservation, or the “going green” movement.

Keep an eye out next spring for our digital-only edition which will focus entirely on CPA career development. A link to it should arrive in May 2020. If you missed our most recent digital-only magazine, Accounting and Technology: PICPA’s Guide to an Evolving Profession, view it now. The host of features encompasses topics such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, and much more.

As we talk about what is coming along in future magazines, it is important for us to focus on the present as well. Check out www.picpa.org/journal over the next couple weeks as our summer 2019 Pennsylvania CPA Journal will soon be hitting the site. Topics being covered in those pages include implementation of the new lease accounting standard, CPA firms entering into business advisory services, and the value of establishing a mentoring program at your firm or company.

As I mentioned earlier, the 2019-2020 Pennsylvania CPA Journal Editorial Board is a dedicated group of volunteers who are determined to offer our membership the most up-to-date features to help them bolster their professional awareness and CPA careers. But if you have a topic we might have missed in our discussions and you believe members would benefit from an exploration, feel free to let me know at whayes@picpa.org. I would be glad to present your suggestion to the Board.

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