Local exec has voice in CPA reform talks ; Board examines rules after Enron revelations.(Leslie Murphy, managing partner of Plante & Moran L.L.P.)(Brief Article)

Crain's Detroit Business, February, 2002 by Merx, Katie

Plante & Moran L.L.P. managing partner Leslie Murphy will have a seat at the table where many of the accounting profession's long-term changes will be debated, if not decided, in the wake of Enron Corp.'s failure. Murphy began a three-year term on the 23-member executive board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on Oct.

1. The New York City-based institute, which represents 340,000 CPAs, works to promote and protect the profession's interests before government and regulatory bodies. Since Enron's collapse into Chapter 11, the institute's executive board has met almost daily by phone and in person to discuss changes that could protect the profession by preventing future Enron-like debacles and keep CPA regulation within the institute's...

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