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For the Media
Our Commitment to the Media
CAMICO Mutual Insurance Company is committed to helping media get the information and insight needed to stay current in a competitive news environment. CAMICO is a valuable news resource to the media covering accounting, auditing, taxation and CPA liability issues.
The company's knowledge of how the CPA profession works is available to journalists covering these beats. CAMICO is flexible and will work with reporters and editors on a background basis or as a quoted news source. The company's insight can be helpful to verify facts, amplify trends or opinions, support assertions made in stories or provide a contrarian viewpoint. CAMICO can help frame stories and explain complex issues and problems in terms that meet your needs as a reporter or editor.
CAMICO experts are responsive and will do their best to honor your deadlines. The company works with print, television, radio and Web reporters to help them get the background, information and analysis they need to maintain momentum on breaking news or to support the research required for lengthier features and think pieces.
Here are some of the specific services CAMICO can provide reporters and editors:
Background Sessions - CAMICO experts can conduct on-the-record background sessions with reporters on a variety of topics, providing comprehensive perspectives on issues affecting your audiences.
Quoted Sources - CAMICO experts are generally available to deliver expert-on-the-record comment by telephone to television, radio or print reporters.
Referrals - CAMICO policyholders include more than 7,600 accounting firms, many of which can supply referrals to expert contacts to help reporters expand their perspective on stories.
Advisories and Op-Eds - CAMICO experts regularly pen advice and opinion pieces, and they can submit such pieces upon request for your audiences.
With the explosion of news in the accounting profession in recent years, CAMICO is prepared to support the needs of journalists to the fullest extent possible. CAMICO Executive Biographies and Speaker Biographies are available.
Here are some trends and topics CAMICO's sources can address for editors and journalists:
- Accounting reform
- Arbitration/mediation
- Audit problems
- Bankruptcy
- Board of directors service exposures
- Choosing the right policy limits
- Claims management
- CPA claims trends and studies
- Client agreements
- Client screening
- Conflicts of interest
- Corporate governance and privately held corporations
- CPA professional ethics
- Disengagement
- Divorce situations
- Documentation guidance
- Employment practices liability
- Engagement letter guidance
- Engagement war stories
- Ethics Interpretation 101-3
- Fees, billing and collections
- Fiduciary duties
- FIN 48
- Financial statement engagement risks |
- Firm mergers, dissolutions, continuation and succession plans
- Fraud and defalcation
- Impact of regulatory changes
- Information security management
- Internal controls
- Jury standards vs. professional standards
- Lender requests for client information
- Litigation support/expert witness testimony
- Loss prevention/risk management/practice management
- Off-shoring and outsourcing of accounting services
- Partner retirement issues
- Policy limits and deductibles
- Public perception of accountants
- Record retention and destruction policies
- SAS No. 112
- Strategic alliance agreements
- Subpoenas/summonses/regulatory requests
- Tax practice exposures
- The CPA professional liability insurance market
- The CPA trusteeship
- Unauthorized practice of law |
Media Contacts:
Dan Crouch, Communications Manager
CAMICO
650.802.2527 - voice
888.422.6426 - fax
dcrouch@camico.com
John Knox, Principal
Knox Communications
415.255.9043 - voice
415.864.7980 - fax
knoxee@aol.com
Curt Olsen, Associate
Knox Communications
415.621.4200 - voice
650.576.6109 - cell
415.864.7980 - fax
curt.olsen@sbcglobal.net
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