Membership Information

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BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

ASWA is "Education, Inspiration, Networking and Fun!"

ASWA is a member-driven organization dedicated to:
·        increasing your technical knowledge, skills and abilities
·        keeping members current in their field of expertise
·        providing career management and transition guidance and assistance
Our benefits include:
·        Business contacts locally and across the country
·        Personal and professional support
·        Relocation network
·        Scholarships for new and returning students and displaced homemakers
·        Job referral network
·        Leadership opportunities
·        Business management skills development
·        National newsletter
·        Local chapter newsletter
·        Low cost, high quality CPE at local, area and national meetings and conferences
·        Corporate discount programs (phone service, credit cards, disability insurance)

ASWA members are employed in a variety of accounting and finance functions, united by a common purpose: to enable those in all fields of accounting and finance to achieve their personal, professional and economic potential and to contribute to the future development of the profession.

Spokane Chapter No. 4
American Society of Women Accountants
Post Office Box 3202
Spokane, WA 99220-3202

 Classification of Members

Status

Qualifications

Regular

  • Actively engaged in accounting or related field for two or more years, or

  • Hold a valid CPA certificate, or its equivalent, or other accounting or financial certifications with similar education or experience requirements as determined by the board of directors, or

  • Hold a bachelor's degree with a major in accounting or it’s equivalent.

  • Shall have full rights of membership.

Associate

  • Regularly enrolled students in post-secondary educational institutions, majoring in accounting or a related field, or

  • Actively engaged in accounting, or hold a bachelor's degree with a major in accounting or its equivalent with less than two years experience.

  • Limited to two years following attainment of qualifications for regular membership and a maximum of seven years.

Affiliate

  • Not actively engaged in accounting, and

  • Have a substantial interest in accounting

Retired

  • Age sixty-five as of June 1 and a regular or associate member for the shorter of five consecutive years or the life of the chapter.

  • Retired from all gainful employment due to disability as of June 1.

  • Age fifty-five as of June 1 and retired from all gainful employment and a regular or associate member for the shorter of ten consecutive years or the life of the chapter.

  • Shall retain the rights previously held as regular or associate members.

Status

Requirements

National Dues

Local Chapter

Total

Regular
Dual Member

 

Hold a CPA certificate or equivalent; two or more years experience in accounting or related field; Bachelor’s degree

 $108.00

 $35.00

 $143.00
Affiliate

Not actively engaged in accounting; have a substantial interest in accounting or related field

 $108.00

 $35.00

 $143.00
Associate

Regularly enrolled student; less than two years experience in accounting or related field

 $35.00

 $10.00

 $45.00
Retired

Retired from Accounting or related field

 $25.00

 $8.00

 $33.00

Membership Application Fee (National Only)

 Fee for all NEW and REAPPLYING Regular and Affiliate Memberships

$25.00

  

$25.00