Tag Archives: Ken Bishop
President’s Memo: Changing Demographics
SHARE: I was made aware of some promising news in the latest AICPA Trends Report: There has been an increase in the number of minority students enrolled in accounting classes. The increase is small but significant in that it indicates that minorities, particularly Hispanics, may recognize the potential opportunities associated with becoming a CPA. Upon…
Regionals Ponder CPA Evolution
SHARE: The “Guiding Principles” for transforming the CPA profession to meet constantly escalating technological advances were the primary focus of the June 2019 NASBA Regional Meetings. On June 11-12 the Eastern Regional Meeting was held in Washington, DC, with 184 participants, and on June 18-20 the Western Regional Meeting was held in Salt Lake City,…
Presidents Memo: The NASBA Summer
SHARE: For the nearly 20 years I have been involved with NASBA, either as a volunteer from the Missouri Board or as an employee for the past dozen or so years, and I have been perplexed by the public’s lack of knowledge as to what State Boards do – and what NASBA does. I often…
President’s Memo: Photos on the Wall – Revisited
SHARE: I am writing this month’s Memo after just returning home from the Nominating Committee’s meeting to nominate NASBA’s next Vice Chair (chair-elect). It is a real privilege to serve as the CEO of an organization that attracts such great leaders who aspire to serve as Chair. All the highly qualified candidates considered by the…
President’s Memo: Elusive Word
SHARE: Last month in my President’s Memo, entitled “Substantial vs. Radical,” I discussed the challenge of finding the appropriate words to describe the degree of change needed to prepare the CPA profession for the future. I was surprised and delighted by the number of responses I received and, more importantly, by the comments and suggestions…
Executive Directors and Societies Meet
SHARE: NASBA’s 37th Annual Conference for Executive Directors and State Board Staff, March 26-28 in San Antonio, TX, once again brought together the Boards’ top administrative staff with the chief executives of the State CPA Societies. Information was shared about many topics of common interest including the administration of the Uniform CPA Examination, significant legislation…
Staff Augmentation ED Raises Concerns
SHARE: NASBA Chair Janice L. Gray and President & CEO Ken L. Bishop have written to the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee expressing NASBA’s concerns about PEEC’s proposed Staff Augmentation Arrangements Interpretation, which would address a nonattest service in which a CPA firm’s staff provides services to an attest client under the client’s supervision. Their…
President’s Memo: This Threat is Real
SHARE: For the past few years we have been discussing the threat of anti-regulatory legislation. In some ways we have been challenged in how best to monitor and respond to this threat, as many of us concur that there are obvious cases where the requirement for licensure has been abused. In the beginning of mandated…
President’s Memo: One Heck of a Year!
SHARE: Writing the December President’s Memo is always an interesting endeavor. Because the Memo is written by the outgoing chair in October and the incoming chair in November, plenty happens after September that I don’t get to highlight. December is also a reflective time, not only for considering the last quarter of the year, but…
Looking for an Organic Solution
SHARE: The CPA Evolution Working Group has started looking for an “organic solution” of how to bring IT expertise into qualifying to become a CPA. NASBA President Ken Bishop told NASBA’s 111th Annual Meeting, October 28-31 in Scottsdale, AZ, that NASBA and AICPA have created a joint team of “people who are not afraid to…