February 2013

With almost three quarters of boards of accountancies already participating in the ALD and CPAverify, and commitment from nearly 100%, NASBA staff is preparing to help the final fifteen join the ranks of those already live.

Based on “State Board Profiles – June 2012,” a compilation of state board profile information provided to NASBA by the individual state boards, the estimated national total of “Persons Regulated” is approximately 771,000. That means, the 41 accountancy boards participating in the ALD represent 82% of the world’s CPA population (about 600,410 licensees). On CPAverify, the 35 participating boards make up about 78% of regulated CPAs (about
571,615 licensees).

Vermont, Arizona, and Virgin Islands recently went live on the ALD, making them the 39th, 40th and 41st boards to provide data to the database, respectively. Vermont also went live on CPAverify, making it the 35th board to participate. DC and Massachusetts are busy finalizing their implementations. Virgin Islands is working to complete their dataset before being added to CPAverify.

As we shared in November’s edition of the ALD Newsletter, we identified the “ALD Big Four” as the top four data components for boards of accountancy to provide. The Big Four are (1) hashing, (2) disciplinary data, (3) firm data, and (4) automated feeds. Vermont and Montana are the 10th and 11th boards of accountancy to accomplish the Big Four goal! Congratulations!

Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Alabama are investigating adding firms to their existing datasets. Idaho has finalized their feed automation. The Boards of Accountancy are committed to data integrity, contributing to a robust national database, and protection of the public. Thank you!

The following are state boards of accountancy categorized by participation in ALD and CPAverify:

Live on ALD and CPAverify:

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. Arkansas
  4. California
  5. CNMI
  6. Florida
  7. Georgia
  8. Idaho
  9. Illinois
  10. Iowa
  11. Kansas
  12. Kentucky
  13. Louisiana
  14. Maine
  15. Maryland
  16. Mississippi
  17. Missouri
  18. Montana
  19. Nebraska
  20. Nevada
  21. New Hampshire
  22. New York
  23. North Carolina
  24. North Dakota
  25. Ohio
  26. Oklahoma
  27. Puerto Rico
  28. South Carolina
  29. South Dakota
  30. Tennessee
  31. Texas
  32. Vermont
  33. Virginia
  34. Washington
  35. West Virginia
  36. Wyoming

 

Live on ALD only:

  1. Arizona
  2. Indiana (will participate in CPAverify upon increase in data feed frequency)
  3. Minnesota (will participate in CPAverify upon increase in data feed frequency)
  4. New Mexico (will participate in CPAverify upon increase in data feed frequency)
  5. Virgin Islands (will participate in CPAverify upon completion of full dataset)

 

Implementation in Progress:

  1. Colorado
  2. Connecticut
  3. Delaware
  4. District of Columbia
  5. Guam
  6. Hawaii
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Michigan
  9. Oregon
  10. Pennsylvania
  11. Wisconsin

 

No ALD or CPAverify Activity at this Time:

  1. New Jersey
  2. Rhode Island
  3. Utah