Tag Archives: UAA

State Board Report June 2012 Responding to NASBA Past Chair Nathan Garrett's urging at NASBA's 2011 Annual Meeting, the AICPA/NASBA Uniform Accountancy Act Committee took a close look at how state laws, the UAA and the Model Rules cover discriminatory hiring. The joint UAA Committee task force, co-chaired by Dwight Hadley and Conrad Davis and…

On March 19, 2012, the Nominating Committee of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, Inc. (NASBA) selected Carlos E. Johnson, Ed.D, CPA, former president and member of the Oklahoma Board of Accountancy, as their candidate for NASBA vice chair, 2012-13. If elected by NASBA’s membership at the Annual Business Meeting on October 30,…

State Board Report December 2011 As of the beginning of December, the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy had issued 16 cease and desist orders against foreign audit firms performing unlicensed audits for Texas-based, SEC-registered companies. In addition, it has issued seven cease and desist orders to domestic U.S. firms that were providing unlicensed audits.…

State Board Report November 2011 Comments on the revised “Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education Programs” (Uniform Accountancy Act Appendix B) should be sent to jluttrull@nasba.org by December 1, stated CPE Advisory Committee Chair Ted Lodden (IA) at the Annual Meeting. The exposure draft, originally released on August 15, 2011, can be found here.…

State Board Report September 2011 With New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s signature on August 17, New York became the 48th state to enact a law that provides for CPA inter-state mobility, as outlined in Section 23 of the Uniform Accountancy Act. The bill will go into effect on November 15, 2011, which will be 90…

September 6, 2011 Please click the following link to view the full document of Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) Model Rules the as approved by the NASBA Board of Directors on July 29, 2011. See Full Document:Uniform Accountancy Act Model Rules

August 2011 We are pleased to announce that the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA), Sixth Edition, August 2011, is now available. As you may recall, in December 2010, the UAA exposure draft was released for comment by the AICPA/NASBA UAA Committee. The comment period ended June 1, 2011 with additional comments being received at the June…

State Board Report July 2011 Professional ethics issues currently being deliberated, the ongoing codification of existing ethics standards and what is meant by the public interest, standard setting for private companies, changes in the Uniform Accountancy Act and Model Rules were all topics presented at the 2011 Regional Meetings, held June 8-10 in Omaha, NE,…

Article 7 of the Uniform Accountancy Rules references Permits to Practice, Firms. The objective of this reporting rule is primarily to reinforce the Board’s efforts to ensure that only appropriately qualified CPA firms are engaged in the offering and rendering of services subject to compliance assurance. Based upon its review of the reports submitted pursuant…

October 27, 2008 A cover letter for the UAA Model Rules, as approved at the October 24, 2008 meeting of the NASBA Board of Directors, is sent to the State Board Chairs, Executives and others interested in State Accountancy Regulation. UAA Revisions Cover Letter November 2008