The accounting and business consulting firm of David B. Robinson, CPA, headquartered at the historic Ivymont Manor House in Midlothian, Virginia is pleased to announce that its principal, David Robinson, was recently appointed an Editorial Advisor to the editors of the Journal of Accountancy.
The Journal of Accountancy is a monthly publication of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants that focuses on the latest news and developments related to the field of accounting. The Journal is written for Certified Public Accountants and other accounting professionals and it covers everything that accountants should know. The subjects of articles include accounting, financial reporting, auditing, taxation, personal financial planning, technology, professional developments, ethics, liability issues, consulting, practice management, education and related business and international issues. Because Journal readers have a variety of interests that require diverse editorial content, articles that appear in the magazine have broad appeal and focus on practical situations and applications.
Forty percent of the Journal's readers work in industry in positions from staff accountant to chief financial officer. Another 40% of readers are CPAs in public practice, in firms ranging in size from a sole practitioner to an international firm of several thousand. 30,000 of the approximately 350, subscribers, including the 330,000 members of the AICPA, are sole practitioners.
The Journal uses editorial advisors to assist in selecting material for publication. The group of advisers consists of about 55 professionals with broad experience, including those in public accounting firms of varying sizes, CPAs in commerce, industry, and education and those with particular substantive experience in various specialties.
Robinson's principal duty to the Journal will be to review manuscripts that have been submitted to or solicited by the Journal, but as an Editorial Advisor to the editors, Robinson will also assist the Journal's editors in selecting material of current interest and high quality for publication, suggest subjects for possible coverage and critique the magazine after it is published.
The Journal of Accountancy's Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Colleen Katz, invited Robinson to apply for the position in April 1998 when he was one of seven CPAs from across the United States, and the only one from the South, invited to attend a Small Firm Round Table Discussion at the Journal's mid-town Manhattan, New York offices. Robinson's Internet website, www.greatcpa.com, had been the subject of an article in the Journal's May 1997 issue (which can be accessed from Robinson's site through the Journal's interactive database) and been invited by Richard Koreto, an editor in-charge of small firm practice management issues articles to attend.
Robinson is a nationally-recognized expert on the issues facing small public accounting firms. He is an often-quoted source on issues involving small CPA firm practice management issues in various forms of media. Robinson is also the host of Richmond radio station WVNZ's "Entrepreneurs' Hour" and has appeared on radio and television programs across the country.
Robinson's Certified Public Accounting practice focuses on personal and business tax return preparation, providing compilation, review and accounting services to small businesses and consulting with small business entrepreneurs located in central Virginia about all issues related to start-up businesses and making existing small businesses more profitable.
The accounting and business consulting firm of David B. Robinson, CPA was founded in 1990 with five clients and has approximately 700 now. In 1996, the firm's headquarters became the Historic Ivymont Manor House which was constructed in the 1850's and is now a Chesterfield County Historical Landmark. Robinson opened a downtown Richmond office in January 1998. His firm was selected in 1996 by Harcourt Brace Professional Publishing as having one of the World-Wide-Web's top five accounting Internet sites and by Inc. magazine in 1997 as a finalist in its Marketing Masters awards contest.
In June 1998, Robinson was selected by the United States Government's Small Business Administration as the 1998 Accountant Advocate of the Year for Virginia.
