Happy New Years!  I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season.   I know that it is that very busy time of year for quarter and year-end closings and reporting.  I hope that you can take a short time out and attend on January meeting.

Our January continuing education speakers will be Angie Gatto and Rachel Dexter from Flagel, Huber, Flagel.  They will be presenting the annual federal tax update.  After dinner we have a presentation from Amir Eylon Ohio’s State Tourism Director.  He will be speaking about Ohio’s $38 billion tourism economy.

 The membership survey raffle is complete.  The winners are,

       First Prize:       Jeff Bruner

       Second  Prize: John Allen

       Third Prize:      David Ryan

The first organization meeting for the student chapter survey will be held in January.  We are in the process of finalizing the date for this initial meeting.  If you are interested in helping with the student chapter please contact me. 

In February we will be holding our annual student night.  We are looking for members to speak to the students about their accounting careers and areas of expertise.  If you are interested in speaker please contact me.

I look forward to seeing all of you at the January dinner.