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Category Archives: Publications
Board Names Perry to CPT
SHARE: The NASBA Board of Directors met on January 15 and approved the appointment of Andrea P. Perry, Esq., as a member of the NASBA Center for the Public Trust’s Board of Directors. Ms. Perry has been selected by the legal community as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar” for six…
NASBA 2020-2021 Committee Chair Roster
SHARE: 2020-21 Committee Name Chair Administration and Finance Committee Richard N. Reisig Audit Committee Faye D. Miller Awards Committee Janice L. Gray Bylaws Committee Jimmy E. Burkes CBT Administration Committee Tyrone E. Dickerson Communications Committee Kenya Y. Watts CPA Examination Review Board Douglas W. Skiles CPE Committee John F. Daily, Jr. Diversity Committee Alison L.…
CPA Evolution Task Forces at Work
SHARE: Four task forces appointed by NASBA and the AICPA are working to develop high-level model curricula topics and learning objectives for the sections of the January 2024 Uniform CPA Examination, which will form the platform for the CPA Evolution. The task forces’ goal is to have their work completed by June 2021, with the…
Meeting Planning Underway
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…
Sidestepping the Bar Exam
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…
Remembering Senator Sarbanes
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.…
54 Jurisdictions in ALD
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…
Increased Focus on Sustainability Standards
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…
NOCLAR Exposure Drafts in February
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…
ACAUS Joins CAW Network
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…