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Category Archives: State Board Reports
Call for Awards Nominations Now Open
SHARE: The NASBA Awards Committee, under the leadership of Chair A. Carlos Barrera (TX), invites Board of Accountancy representatives to submit nominations for NASBA’s 2023 Awards by June 30, 2023 (11:59 pm CDT). Nominations are currently being accepted online for the William H. Van Rensselaer Public Service Award, NASBA Distinguished Service Award and Lorraine P.…
Access to ARPL Advocacy Tools
SHARE: The Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing (ARPL), of which NASBA and the AICPA are founding members, is a coalition of national associations representing highly complex and technical professions and their state licensing boards. ARPL educates policymakers and the public on the importance of rigorous licensing for engineers, architects, landscape architects, surveyors and CPAs. Last…
FAF Addresses Due-Process Compliance with FASB and GASB
SHARE: The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has granted stakeholders in the financial reporting community the opportunity to raise potential concerns about compliance with the due-process procedures of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Through the FAF website, stakeholders can now flag for the FAF’s Oversight Committee alleged failures…
Ed Barnicott Remembered
SHARE: NASBA is saddened to announce that retired VP of Strategic Planning and Program Management Edwin F. (Ed) Barnicott, Jr., of Nashville, TN, passed away on May 5, 2023, at the age of 74. During his tenure with NASBA, Barnicott also served as chief information technology officer for the Association. For a span of 20…
Caldwell Selected as Vice Chair Nominee
SHARE: On May 4, Maria E. Caldwell, CPA, of Miami, FL, was selected as the NASBA Nominating Committee’s candidate for vice chair, 2023-2024. Caldwell will stand for election at the October Annual Business Meeting on October 31, in New York, NY. If elected vice chair by the member State Boards of Accountancy, she will automatically…
Full Issue: Winter 2023
Comments on UAA Model Rules Due April 17
SHARE: State Boards of Accountancy and other interested parties are encouraged to submit comments by April 17, 2023, in response to proposed amendments to the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) Model Rules for the granting of credit requirement for sections passed on the Uniform CPA Examination. The revised exposure draft, which was approved for re-exposure by…
Swing for the CPT
SHARE: The NASBA Center for the Public Trust (CPT) announces its annual golf tournament – May 8, 2023, at The Governors Club in Brentwood, TN. The tournament will begin with lunch at 11:00 a.m. (CDT), followed by a 12:00 Noon shotgun start and closing awards dinner. Participation in this year’s tournament will aid the CPT…
Senators Call for PCAOB to Tighten Regulation on Crypto Audits
SHARE: Earlier this year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, asked the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to ramp up regulations on the audits of cryptocurrency companies after high-profile companies like FTX recently went bankrupt. In a letter to PCAOB Chair Erica Williams, they highlighted the insufficient ‘proof…
Executive Directors and Legal Counsel Conferences
SHARE: Discussions regarding CPA pipeline challenges, enforcement, accountancy board rulemaking and ethics for CPAs headlined NASBA’s recent 41st Annual Conference for Executive Directors and Board Staff and 28th Annual Conference for Board of Accountancy Legal Counsel. Held concurrently, the conferences took place in Tucson, AZ, February 27 – March 1, 2023, and provide an opportunity…