Category Archives: State Board Reports

SHARE: The Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) Model Rules that will set the stage for the CPA Evolution are out for comment through August 31, 2020, announced UAA Committee Chair J. Coalter Baker (TX) at NASBA’s June Regional Meetings. The proposed changes to Model Rules 5-1 and 5-2 can be found on the NASBA website (https://nasba.org/app/uploads/2020/05/UAA-Cover-Letter-Proposed-Revisions_Final-26May20.pdf).…

SHARE: On June 20, 2020 the NASBA Nominating Committee held a virtual meeting and selected the following individuals as their nominees for Directors-at-Large and Regional Directors, as reported by Nominating Committee Chair, Janice L. Gray (OK): Directors-at-Large (three-year term): J. Coalter Baker (TX) Jimmy E. Burkes (MS) Nicola Neilon (NV) Regional Directors (one-year term): Central:…

SHARE: In June, four Regions selected their members and alternate members for NASBA’s Nominating Committee in accordance with Bylaws Articles 7.1.5 and 7.1.10. The other four Regions elected their members and alternates at the 2019 Regional Meetings. The newly elected members of the 2020-2022 Nominating Committee are: Central: Member – Lori J. Druse (NE); Alternate…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…