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Aims and Purposes
- To emphasize and perpetuate the prestige and status of the public accounting profession.
- To promote and protect the interests of accountants in public practice.
- To cultivate a spirit of professional cooperation among the members.
- To establish a respected public image of the accountant in public practice.
- To encourage professional levels of competence, character and integrity.
- To promote the highest standards of ethical conduct among the members.
- To seek the enactment of laws and the correction or modification of existing laws in the interests of the profession and the general public.
- To develop and distribute educational material in order to increase the knowledge and efficiency of the members to the end that the clients they serve and the general community may profit.
- To direct the members' attention to some of the significant developments in tax laws, regulations and court decisions through NSA and MAPA bulletins, newsletters and publications.
- To encourage the participation by individual accountants in public practice in worthwhile civic activities.
- To combat discrimination against accountants in public practice wherever and under whatever conditions such inimical practices may appear.
- To publicize the achievements of individual members through appropriate national, state and local media.
- To represent the accountant in public practice on the state level with all government agencies, and particularly the Treasury department.
- To encourage and assist accountants in public practice in the application of efficient management methods for the profitable conduct of their practice.
- To serve as a clearing house for the dissemination of timely information on all matters of interest to accountants in public practice.
- To increase contacts and acquaintanceships among the members.
- To initiate and develop, from the state level, a continuing program of public service projects.