Cohen served on the AICPA board and on the Audit, Finance, Regulation and Structure committees and the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee. He also was named one of Accounting Today’s 100 most influential accountants and received the Indiana CPA Society President’s Award.

Holder was a member of the Institute’s governing council and board of directors, served as chair of the Audit Committee and the AICPA Board of Examiners and was on the CPA Exam’s Computerization Implementation Committee. He is director of USC’s SEC and Financial Reporting Institute and former director of the university’s master of accounting program. Holder also was selected as one of Accounting Today’s 100 most influential accountants.

For more than 20 years Mares has been a volunteer leader in the Institute, serving on the AICPA board of directors and The Tax Adviser’s editorial advisory board and as chair and member of the AICPA Tax Executive Committee. Mares was named one of Virginia’s “super CPAs” by Virginia Business magazine, received the Outstanding Member Award of the Virginia Society of CPAs and was voted one of the “100 most influential CPAs in the United States” five times by Accounting Today.