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Category Archives: Newsletters
First Virtual Regional Meetings
SHARE: How do you shrink a full two-day meeting into two abbreviated days? Turn to technology. The handshakes and snacks were missing, but NASBA’s virtual 2020 Virtual Regional Meetings managed to address the top topics concerning the State Boards of Accountancy and still have time for exchanging best practice information among Boards. Moderated by Relations…
CPA Evolution Praised at Regionals
SHARE: Calling CPA Evolution “one of the most important projects that I have been associated with in my years of NASBA service,” Chair Laurie Tish (WA) reported the project is meeting its progress milestones, despite having to conduct its meetings virtually. She walked the Regional Meetings’ participants through the CPA Evolution process up to its…
Pandemic Ups Cyber Threats
SHARE: As infection rates of COVID-19 increased over the last few months, so did the number of bad actors trying to come on line with suspicious websites where users could be tricked into providing their credentials or inject their workstation or tablet with malware, NASBA Chief Information Security Officer Roy Hall, Jr., told the Regional…
COVID-19’s Impact on Boards
SHARE: A summary of the many actions taken by Boards of Accountancy in response to the pandemic was presented to the Regional Meetings by NASBA Executive Vice President and COO Colleen Conrad and Prometric Director Kimberly Farace. In recent months many Accountancy Board members have been working from home and Boards were operating under stay-at-home…
2020 NASBA Research Grants
SHARE: The NASBA Board of Directors has accepted the recommendation of the Education Committee and awarded the 2020 NASBA Accounting Education Research Grants to two project teams: “Options for Meeting the 150-Hour Requirement to Maximize Students’ Demand as Public Accounting Recruits: Establishing New Benchmarks in the Age of Data Analytics,” by Tristan B. Johnson and…
What About Remote Proctoring?
SHARE: The significance of disaster planning has been underscored by the COVID-19 restrictions. Testing options are one of the elements NASBA has been studying as it considers worst case scenarios, NASBA Executive Vice President and COO Colleen Conrad told the Regional Meetings. Remote proctoring, which would open the possibility of candidates testing from home, is…
AICPA Launching .CPA Domain Name
SHARE: Beginning September 1, 2020, licensed CPA firms and licensed individual CPAs can apply to place the restricted domain name .cpa on their web address. It took the AICPA almost seven years to win the rights to control the custom domain .cpa from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as other groups…
Continuous Testing Arrives!
SHARE: Fifty-two jurisdictions completed the transition to offering continuous testing on July 1, as scheduled. Only South Carolina has to wait for a change in their statute, which could take up to a year to make its way through their next legislative session. In the other jurisdictions, candidates can now take the Uniform CPA Examination…
Communications Committee Hosts Webinar
SHARE: NASBA Communications Committee Chair Kenya Y. Watts (OH) joined her committee members in hosting a webinar entitled “Communicating During a Pandemic: A Virtual Discussion for Boards of Accountancy,” on June 17. She explained the purpose of the virtual meeting was “to discuss how and what Boards are communicating now during the pandemic.” Participants reported…
NY Says Free File Program Exploited
SHARE: The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) has concluded its investigation into why more taxpayers making $69,000 or less have not been using the Free File Program. On July 16 NY Superintendent of Financial Services Linda A. Lacewell stated: “The Free File Program is broken and was exploited by commercial tax preparer…