Tag Archives: Billy Atkinson

State Board Report January 2013 Private Company Council Chairman Billy M. Atkinson called to order the inaugural meeting of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new advisory group on December 6, 2012 in Norwalk, CT. Created to improve the standard-setting process for private companies, the PCC will initially be focusing their attention on: consolidation of variable…

January 10, 2013 Private company stakeholders have never been in a better position to have their concerns addressed in the standard-setting process, according to Billy Atkinson, the chair of the new Private Company Council and former Chair of NASBA: “We have the wind in our sails.” The council was created by the Financial Accounting Foundation…

State Board Report October 2012 Two NASBA Past Chairs, Billy M. Atkinson, CPA, and Diane M. Rubin, CPA, have been selected by the Financial Accounting Foundation’s (FAF) Board of Trustees to serve on the new Private Company Council. Mr. Atkinson has been named as chair of the new body, that will work with the Financial…

Financial Accounting Foundation Appoints Members To Newly Created Private Company Council NORWALK, CT (September 19, 2012) –The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) today appointed the chair and members of the Private Company Council (PCC). The PCC is a new body that will work with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to…

State Board Report March 2012 The Financial Accounting Foundation on March 1 completed its series of four roundtable sessions to solicit public comments about its “Plan to Establish the Private Company Standards Improvement Council,” released in October 2011. NASBA was one of the three parties that sponsored the Blue Ribbon Panel on Standard Setting for…

Houston CPAs to Honor Past NASBA Chair Publication: Accounting TodayPublished: February 14, 2012Author: Daniel Hood The Houston CPA Society will honor past NASBA chair Billy Atkinson and his wife Donnelle as honorary co-chairs of its 2012 Scholarship Extravaganza fundraising event. See Full ArticleHouston CPAs to Honor Past NASBA Chair

State Board Report July 2011 While many have conceded that private company issues have festered in the background of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s policymaking, how this should be changed was debated at NASBA’s Regional Meetings. Billy Atkinson (TX), NASBA Past Chair and a member of the FAF/AICPA/NASBA Blue Ribbon Panel on Private Company Standard…

State Board Report July 2010 State Boards were asked to begin studying several proposals unveiled at the 2010 NASBA Regional Meetings, held June 9‐11 in Charleston, SC, and June 23‐25 in Seattle, WA, and to send their comments to the committees that initiated those proposals. The State Board Relevance and Effectiveness Committee, led by Carlos…

May 20, 2010 The discussion paper below is an attempt to combine two definitions of independence into one uniform definition. The IFAC states that the independence of mind is the state that permits the expression of a conclusion, while the AICPA states that it is the performance of an attest service without being affected by…

State Board Report March 2010 NASBA Chair Billy M. Atkinson and President David A. Costello signed an extension of the computer‐based testing (CBT) agreement for the Uniform CPA Examination on March 4 with AICPA Chairman Robert Harris, AICPA President Barry Melancon and Prometric representatives. The new agreement extends the AICPA’s development of the Examination through…