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Category Archives: Publications
Response to GASB “Proposed Statement of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board: Financial Reporting Model Improvements” – 2/16/2021
Full Issue: Winter 2021
President’s Memo: A Dumpster Fire
SHARE: I am sure that most of you have heard the year 2020 described as a “dumpster fire.” I get it. My heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones, businesses that have closed for good and individuals who have struggled financially. As CPAs and firms enter the yearly busy season, dealing…
Parting Thoughts
SHARE: When I started to work as a consultant for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy in 1977, it had two full-time employees and was housed in one office within the American Institute of CPAs’ New York City location. On February 12, 2021, when I retire as a vice president and this newsletter’s…
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.…
