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COVID Colors Baruch/CPT Conference

SHARE: The 15th Annual Audit Conference on Ensuring Integrity, jointly sponsored by Baruch College and the NASBA Center for the Public Trust, was held on December 1-2, and every session took some note of how COVID-19 has been impacting the profession. As in other years, the conference took place on the same day as the…

Flexibility Aided NASBA’s Transition

SHARE: Preparation for offering more flexibility in employee scheduling actually enabled NASBA to more easily transition to all working home because of COVID-19, NASBA President and Chief Executive Officer Ken Bishop reported to the NASBA Board on April 24.  The competition for talent in Nashville had led NASBA’s human resources department to recommend offering more…

PCAOB Chair Addresses CPT/Baruch Conference

SHARE: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has reaffirmed its strategic plan, which commits the Board to transforming itself “into a trusted leader that promotes high quality auditing through forward-looking, responsive, and innovative oversight,” PCAOB Chair William D. Duhnke told Baruch College’s 14th Annual Audit Conference, cosponsored by the NASBA Center for the Public Trust,…

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…

David Costello Steps Down From CPT

SHARE: At the June 2004 NASBA Regional Meetings, then President David A. Costello, CPA, unveiled early plans for the NASBA Center for the Public Trust (CPT). He told those meetings: “The Center will focus on the best practices throughout the U.S. – and maybe they will catch on.” With the selection of Donald H. Burkett,…

MO Adds CPT Course to Discipline

SHARE: State Board Report August The Missouri State Board of Accountancy has made the Center for the Public Trust’s Ethics Certification program a requirement for licensees disciplined by the State Board for ethics infractions. As other Boards heard from CPT President Alfonzo Alexander during the NASBA Regional Meetings in June, this on-line program can be…

Announcing the Inaugural CPT Golf Classic

SHARE: GOLF CLASSIC ON PAR TO HELP NON-PROFIT CONTINUE ETHICAL MISSION NASHVILLE, TENN. (May 17, 2017)— Employees continuously find themselves in situations that can test their moral character. To ensure America’s future business leaders are prepared to manage these situations, the NASBA Center for the Public Trust (CPT) provides life-changing leadership and ethics training. To…