CPA-HPP Treasurer’s Report
Zhipeng Gao
CPA Convention 2014, Vancouver, BC
HPP Section -Business Meeting
June 7th, 1:30pm-3:25pm
Balance Sheet
Since the convention in the Québec city last year we had the following withdraws from HPP’s
account: $100 for the Mary Wright Award and $ 45.42 for the website hosting. That’s $145.42 in
total.
We currently have $ 2656.76 available (as of May 27, 2014). This is $542.57 more than we had
at the same time last year ($2,114.19 as of April 30, 2013, which is $250.59 less than we had at
the same time on April 30, 2012).
Membership
We have received $687.75 in membership dues since May, 2013 ($127.50 in 2013 and $560.25
in 2014). According to CPA’s payment and financial reconciliation report we have 83 active
members as of May 01, 2013 — 62 Professionals (CPA Member, Fellow; Honorary Life Fellow,
Honorary Life Member, etc.), and 21 Student Affiliates (including one international). See
breakdown below from our membership list.
HPP Active Membership (2014)
CPA Member
CPA Student Affiliate
CPA Fellow
CPA Honorary Life Fellow
CPA Honorary Life Member
CPA Special Affiliate
CPA/APA Joint Member
CPA International Affiliate
CPA International Student
Affiliate
CPA Retired Fellow
CPA Retired Member
Total Members
HPP Active Membership (2013)
41
20
10
3
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
83
CPA Member
CPA Student Affiliate
CPA Fellow
CPA Honorary Life Fellow
CPA Honorary Life Member
CPA Special Affiliate
CPA/APA Joint Member
CPA International Affiliate
CPA International Student
Affiliate
CPA Retired Fellow
Total Members
30
17
10
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
69
Note: the CPA/APA Joint Member is calculated based on the CPA database and reflects how
members paid the annual fee and not the de facto joint membership, which has been confirmed
as consisting of more members than indicated here.
Points to Raise:
We have a significant increase in membership – from 69 to 83. Congratulations and thanks to
Laura and others’ efforts! We might identify strategies that have effectively raised the
membership and continue using them.
We received generous donation from Richard Walsh, Thomas Teo and Angelina Baydala out of
the royalty of their newly published textbook A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology.
The royalty donation agreement has been made but it has not yet been deposited to our account.
We need to consider how to make use of our money to promote the development of our field and
community. This year we have $ 2656.76 available (as of May 27, 2014); this is $542.57 more
than we had at the same time last year. Given that we have the Mary Wright Best Student Paper
covered by the fund donated by Mary Wright, and that we are going to receive the royalty
donation mentioned above, we will have 500 – 700 dollars at our disposal without reducing our
savings. What initiatives can we make such amount of money? Laura proposes that maybe we
can set up an award, for instance, a dissertation award, Early Career award, or Lifetime
Achievement award.