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SHARE: Author: Noëlle Liger-Burton, Manager, ALL and CPAMobility Posted: Dec. 23, 2025 In 2025, NASBA and the AICPA significantly updated the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) to add a third pathway to licensure and make corollary updates to state-to-state mobility to work in tandem with the pathway addition. Key Changes in Licensure Pathways There are now…

SHARE: NASHVILLE, TENN. (Sept. 22, 2025) – The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) has relaunched CPAMobility.org, a modernized, online resource that helps Certified Public Accountants determine where and how they can practice across state lines. Practice privilege, or CPA mobility, laws allow CPAs in good standing to serve clients in other states…

SHARE: The boards of directors of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) have approved expansion of accountancy’s model legislation to include an additional path to CPA licensure. The optional path maintains public protection while providing added flexibility and options for CPA candidates. The changes add a…

SHARE: AICPA and NASBA are advancing model legislative language that enables an additional path to CPA licensure. The optional path maintains the license’s integrity and protects the public while providing flexibility in response to stakeholder demand. The organizations asked the joint Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) committee to draft proposed model law language in two key areas:   Comment letters submitted on two recent…

A majority of state boards of accountancy in the United States have adopted mobility legislation – which is a practice privilege that generally permits a licensed CPA in good standing from a substantially equivalent state to practice outside of his or her principal place of business without obtaining another license. NASBA, the state boards of…

Generally, mobility permits a certified public accountant (CPA) who is licensed and in good standing in their home state to practice public accountancy across state lines without obtaining an additional license in their desired mobility state. To assist licensees and firms in understanding these practice privilege, or “mobility” provisions, cpamobility.org was relaunched in September 2025…

SHARE: Late last year, I was saddened to read the obituary of Robert Ellyson, a former chairman of the Florida State Board of Accountancy and past chair of NASBA. I had gotten to know Bob (he insisted I call him ‘Bob’ and not “Mr. Ellyson”) as before he died, he began calling me, not for any…

SHARE: By the end of May 2021, 39 jurisdictional legislatures will have adjourned their 2021 legislative sessions and an additional six legislatures will do the same by the end of June; this will leave 10 remaining jurisdictions in session until December 2021. Unlike 2020, when state legislatures across the country convened late due to the…

Helps Speed Up the CPA License and Firm Registration Process Given the ever-changing regulatory environment, and the recent adoption of mobility legislation in most states, it is becoming increasingly difficult to remain up-to-date on the licensing and registration laws rules for individual CPAs and public accounting firms. As the representative of state boards, NASBA offers…

Given the ever-changing regulatory environment and adoption of mobility legislation in most states, it is a challenge to remain up to date on the various CPA and firm licensing laws and rules among all Boards of Accountancy. The Accountancy Licensing Library (ALL) helps remove the complexity from the CPA license and firm registration process for…