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Accounting Career Awareness Program
(ACAP) 
Fox Entertainment
Group has sponsored the business competition segment of ACAP, a
weeklong residential program for 35 high school students of
color. FOX Broadcasting Company arranged a meeting with its CFO
to discuss opportunities in accounting and finance, provided a
tour of its lot, provided content for a case study, and
participated in the judging of the case
presentation.
Perhaps more than
most, CalCPA member Ida Yarbrough, a Los Angeles-based CPA, has been
part of the student outreach solution for years--decades,
really.
Ida leads by
example. Instead of looking out for Number One, as our society
dictates, Ida looks out for others. Instead of being objective and
distant, she is passionately and whole-heartedly concerned about the
well-being of others. Instead of using her time to pursue financial
rewards, she spends unreasonable amounts of time and resources
serving those around her in pursuit of true
wealth...
Minorities Share the Challenges They Have
Faced
By: Laurie Mason, Smart
Pros
February 21, 2000 (SmartPros)
— If you are reading this, you are probably white: Ninety-four
percent of CPAs working for public accounting firms are, according
to a 1997 AICPA survey of 6,000 American CPA firms. That means only
six percent are African American, Asian or Latino. Do you ever
wonder what it must be like to be one of
them?
(NORTHRIDGE, Calif.) - Buying out a major
company takes skill, strategy and cunning. Fifty Los Angeles area
high school students will test their mettle later this month as they
attempt to "take over" Precision Dynamics Corp. as part of Cal State
Northridge's summer Accounting Career Awareness Program
(ACAP)... | 
