Tag Archives: IQAB

State Board Report May 2013 The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is moving ahead with several initiatives that will be covering trade in accounting services around the world, according to a report given by Director of Trade Negotiations Thomas Fine to the NASBA/AICPA International Qualifications Appraisal Board (IQAB) on April 5 in Durham, NC. An international…

State Board Report June 2012 The movement to unify the accounting profession in Canada, bringing together the Chartered Accountants (CAs), Certified Management Accountants (CMAs) and Certified General Accountants (CGAs), is not progressing as smoothly as had been hoped for by leaders of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (see sbr 5/12). The Certified General Accountants…

State Board Report May 2012 It has been approximately 10 years since the NASBA/AICPA International Qualifications Appraisal Board and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ (CICA) International Qualifications Appraisal Board have come together for a meeting, but the proposed merging of Canada’s professional accounting designations may have bearing on the longstanding mutual recognition agreement (MRA)…

State Board Report August 2011 The NASBA/AICPA Uniform Accountancy Act Committee and the NASBA/ AICPA International Qualifications Appraisal Board both saw their recommendations approved as submitted at the July 29 meeting of the NASBA Board of Directors, held in Coeur d’Alene, ID. The American Institute of CPAs’ Board of Directors similarly approved the documents at…

Abbreviations Heard at Meetings of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy AAA – American Accounting Association AACSB – American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business ACAP – Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession (US Treasury Department) ACCA – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ACAT – Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation (NSA affiliated…

May 25, 2010 The IQAB and the CAI, as parties to this document, have achieved a consensus on principles for reciprocity to be recommended to the Council of the Chartered Accountants Ireland and to the individual U.S. State Boards of Accountancy that grant, respectively, the CA and the CPA designations. To promote reciprocity this agreement…

NEW YORK and NASHVILLE (August 17, 2009) — The U.S. International Qualifications Appraisal Board (U.S. IQAB) and the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants have entered into a five‐year Mutual Recognition Agreement that establishes the basis for reciprocity between the U.S. and New Zealand accounting professions. William Treacy, chair of U.S. IQAB, and Linda Turner,…

August 12, 2009 The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) have jointly established the United States International Qualifications Appraisal Board (U.S. IQAB) to eliminate impediments to reciprocity by serving as the link between the accounting profession in the United States and the accounting profession in…

State Board Report August 2009 A mutual recognition agreement with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants was approved by the NASBA Board of Directors at their July 17 meeting in Avon, Colorado. This brings the total to six such agreements developed by the NASBA/AICPA International Qualifications Board (IQAB) and recommended to the State Boards…

The New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and The U.S. International Qualifications Appraisal Board The Parties agree that New Zealand CAs who hold a baccalaureate degree with an approved major in accounting or a baccalaureate non-accounting degree with completion of approved courses, either qualification having been obtained at an institution accredited by the NZICA and…