AICPA honors service and professional contributions in tax Related
Roby Sawyers, professor of accounting and director of undergraduate programs at North Carolina State University s Poole College of Management, received the AICPA s Arthur J. Dixon Award. Also, Jamie C. Yesnowitz, principal and leader of State and Local Tax, and Jeff Martin, a partner and tax technical leader in compensation and employee benefits, both in Grant Thornton s Washington National Tax Office, received Jonathan Horn Distinguished Service Awards.
The Arthur J. Dixon Award, the highest award given in the area of taxes, recognizes a CPA who demonstrates professionalism in the spirit of Dixon, who was a leader in the profession, serving on various state society and AICPA committees, with a long record of service to the Tax Division. Sawyers specializes in federal estate tax issues, North Carolina s tax structure, behavioral aspects of income tax decision-making, tax patents, and state and local tax. For m