Category Archives: Newsletters

SHARE: Whether NASBA’s 2021 June Regional Meetings will be virtual or in-person has not yet been decided, but NASBA’s Committee on Relations with Member Boards has started planning for the content. If NASBA cannot hold in-person Regional Meetings this June, then the Regional Directors have recommended that one combined Regional Meeting be held rather than…

SHARE: Emergency measures that allowed law school graduates to be eligible for law licenses without taking the bar examination enabled nearly 1400 people to be licensed, Bloomberg News reported in January. This option had been made available in Louisiana, Oregon, Utah, Washington and the District of Columbia, in response to a resolution passed by the…

SHARE: There were many deaths during 2020, including the passing of NASBA Chair 1995-96 Ronnie Rudd (TX), but there was another death of particular significance to the State Boards. Former Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (MD-D), who crafted the “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) of 2002 with Representative Michael G.…

SHARE: Published: January 31, 2021 In December, the Utah Board of Accountancy, part of the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, became the 54th Board of Accountancy to participate in NASBA’s Accountancy Licensee Database (ALD) and CPAverify.org. ALD is only lacking information from the Hawaii Board of Public Accountancy to have complete participation by…

SHARE: The inclusion of sustainability information in financial reports has been getting additional interest in recent months as the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) announced its plans to merge with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) to become the Value Reporting Foundation in mid-2021. Their goal is to have an integrated reporting framework with sustainability…

SHARE: On January 14, 2021, the latest round in the profession’s ongoing attempt to deal with NOCLAR (non-compliance with laws and regulations) began, with the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board’s (ASB) vote to expose for public comment a proposed Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) on “Communication with Predecessor Auditor Regarding Fraud and Noncompliance with Laws and…

SHARE: The Association of Chartered Accountants in the United States (ACAUS) has joined with the Chartered Accountants Worldwide (CAW) to form the Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network USA. ACAUS reports there are 7,000 Chartered Accountants living and working in the United States. Chartered Accountants Worldwide has over 1.8 million members and students from 15 Chartered Accountant…

SHARE: The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board’s suggestion that auditors maintain a “suspicious mindset” was not supported in NASBA’s response to the IAASB’s discussion paper on “Fraud and Going Concern in an Audit of Financial Statements.” Auditors need to have “professional skepticism,” but the new term would not enhance their planning for fraud identification,…

SHARE: A December 9, 2020 webinar for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Group on Services, organized by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), spotlighted the CPA’s international testing centers as an example of “next generation” regulation. NASBA Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer Colleen Conrad described the overseas testing for the international…

SHARE: The 15th Annual Audit Conference on Ensuring Integrity, jointly sponsored by Baruch College and the NASBA Center for the Public Trust, was held on December 1-2, and every session took some note of how COVID-19 has been impacting the profession. As in other years, the conference took place on the same day as the…