Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-13
Accountancy Board
Exams in January.

WaterVille. Nov. 2.-fSpeeiaD-M-
though Maine has been the last OF the
states in the. Union 10 establish a STATE
Board of Accountancy, its recently APP
pointed chairman, r Ernest Holman, Of
this city is striving in every way to
place the board on a parallel with the
boards of other states Maine Of course
has been conservative in having ecrtt-
fled physicians. dentists. druggists, and
veterinarians. but public accountants.
the doctors of poor businesses. the medi-
cal examiners Of the commercial world,
have been allowed to do business Without
first proving their competency. but an
act Of the last Legislature provides Tor \
state board af aeconntancY. This beafa
will require all those claiming 10 be Ger
titled public accountants to appear before
it and take an examination 10 prove
their ability the same as is required Of
druggists and physicians.
The new board was organized in
Waterviile last week as follows: =.
Ernest Holman. G. r ~. WatefVille,
chairman. Hon. John Loveiey, G. z. y.
Rockiand. and John T Pagan, G. z. A..
Portland. secretary. The board has al
ready arranged for the first eXamina-
tions to be held Jan 6. :. s. Q, at the State
House. Augusta.
Mr. Holman. the first head of Names
newest board feels that the standardizmg
Of aecountaney in Maine will revolution
ize the so-called public accounting and
when asked by a journal reporter Just
what the new board would mean To the
state he said
THE Maine Board of Aecountancy was
created bx an act Of tie last Legisla=
turr Its purposes are to promote the
standard of general education, the stan
dard Of special education in the science
I'd art Of accounting, the standard ef
moral character and general experience.
rs prescribed in the act
ZIP to the time of the enactment of
this legislation. Maine had been much
behind most of her sister states In de-
velopng and Safeguarding the science of
public accounting, and this fact lost ia
the state number of her brightest
young men who desired to enter the pro-
fession OF public accounting and audit
ing
THE ultimate goal Of every accountant
is the certified public accountants cert
ficate. without which, today an ae-
ceuntant has but small standing In the
profession \ {. T. a. terrified public
accoutant certificate is obtained by an
accountant going before the state board
of accountaney aud successfully passing
the examinations given by the boar.
up to this year, there being no such
board in Maine. the man who desired to
obtain c. z. \. certificate was obliged
to remove To some other state. usually
Massachusetts or New York. and take
up his residence. 50 rs to become eligible
to take the c. t. A. examinations of the
state to which he had moved
This is now all changed, and a c. p
A. certificate granted by the Maine
Board of AceountaneX is now available
to those who may lit themselves to pass
Every hookkeeper, bank clerk, aeeout-
ant and auditor in the State Of Maine
should be vitality interested in this new
law. 1t affords the stimulus that the
ambitious men of Maine have SO long
needed to awaken their interest in the
science of accounting.
tfhe cry all along the line today in
state prisons, insane hospitals ana CHART
table Institutions is Economy" and
stop the leaks The certined public
accountant. fitted by training expert
enee and study. is the man called on To
point out the weak. inefficient and un-
economical places
Mrs f, A. Jones and Mrs l.. r.
Brooks of Belfast were in the city,