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Category Archives: State Board Reports
BOD Calls for Vote on Bylaws Changes
SHARE: Amendments to NASBA’s Bylaws dealing with teleconferences and the Nominating Committee will be voted on at the Annual Business Meeting in November. Responding to issues raised over the past year, the Bylaws Committee has proposed changes to Bylaws 4.11; 7.1.8 ; and 7.2.2. At their July 24, 2020 virtual meeting, the NASBA Board of…
President’s Memo: The End is Near
SHARE: No, I am not talking about the apocalypse or the band Primal Fear’s 2016 hit song. I am writing this quarter’s Memo following the NASBA July Board of Directors’ meeting and the fiscal year’s end is near. I don’t think there has ever been a time when I was so looking forward to the…
Model Rules Out for Comment
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).…
Nominating Committee Announces Slate
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:…
2020-22 Nominating Committee Selection
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…
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…