NASBA’s 101st Annual Meeting, to be held at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA on October 26-29, 2008, will feature presentations from NASBA’s leadership as well as other significant voices in the business world. Among them will be: Donald Nicolaisen – Co-Chair of the Department of the Treasury’s Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession (ACAP) and former Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Damon A. Silvers – Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO and ACAP member; Claudius Modesti – Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Director of Enforcement and Investigations; Nancy B. Nichols – International President of Beta Alpha Psi; Belverd E. Needles – Vice President – Education of the American Accounting Association; Gregory Johnson – Executive Director of the National Association of Black Accountants ; John M. Sharbaugh – Executive Director of the Texas Society of CPAs; Leslie F. Seidman – Member of Financial Accounting Standards Board; and Judith H. O’Dell – FASB Private Company Financial Reporting Committee Chair. The final morning of the 101st Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the opening of the NASBA Forum of International Accountancy Regulators and will hear from Mark W. Olsen – PCAOB Chairman and Robert L. Bunting –President of the International Federation of Accountants. Those attending the following Forum sessions will also hear from: Stavros Thomadakis – Chairman of the Professional International Oversight Board; Wei-Guo Zhang – Chief Accountant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission; Mark Allison – Executive Director of Education of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland; and Charles H. Calhoun – NASBA Member of IFAC Education Standards Board Consultative Advisory Group. To take advantage of NASBA’s hotel rates, reservations must be made by September 19, so make plans now to be in Boston for these memorable meetings. |