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Alfonzo Alexander Named Chair of PhD Project and Nashville Public Education Foundation
SHARE: Alfonzo Alexander, NASBA Chief Ethics and Diversity Officer and NASBA Center for the Public Trust President, was recently appointed as chairman of The PhD Project and Nashville Public Education Foundation boards of directors. The PhD Project (The Project) accomplishes its mission of increasing diversity in the business world by providing opportunities for Black/African American,…
Encouraging More Black CPAs
SHARE: Less than 1 percent of the CPAs in the United States are black — and that has not changed in 40 years, Shannon Nash, Chair of the National Society of Black CPAs (NSBCPA), pointed out to the NASBA Annual Meeting. “If we do not do something now, then when?” she asked. The new organization…
Boards See Increase in Diversity
SHARE: There has been a slow but gradual increase in the diversity of membership of the State Boards of Accountancy, according to NASBA research. NASBA Chief Ethics and Diversity Officer Alfonzo Alexander reported NASBA found 11.9 percent diversity of Board members in 2013, and in 2019 there was 14.94 percent. The percentage of men and…
Gen Z Speaks at Regionals
SHARE: Four members of the Center for the Public Trust Student Chapters joined CPT President Alfonzo Alexander to give Regional Meeting attendees some insights into what students in “Generation Z” (the demographic group born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, which now composes 25 percent of the U.S. population) think about entering the accounting…
9 States Use CPT Course
SHARE: The Kansas Board of Accountancy has become the first Board to work with the NASBA Center for the Public Trust to add to the CPT’s three-module Ethical Leadership Training Resource Program a fourth module, covering its state’s law and rules. It has been three years since the Missouri State Board of Accountancy began talking…