State Regulatory Update - Archives
The State Regulatory Update is a publication by the AICPA State Regulation and Legislation Team that provides news and information of interest to state boards of accountancy.
February 2018
- Ethics Update
- Enhancing Audit Quality: See the profession’s 2017 progress
- CPA Profession Monitoring State Occupational Licensing Reform
May 2017
- Annual Peer Review Information Form
- Peer Review Update: Free Audit Documentation Tools and Presentation on Evolution of Peer Review Administration
- UAA Exposure Drafts Released for Comment: SSARS 21 & UAA Updates, CPE Model Rules, and Use of Management Accounting Titles
March 2017
- Attest, firm mobility among top profession trends in state legislatures,
- Comments sought on UAA, Model Rules Exposure Drafts,
- Peer Review Update: Toolkit available to help auditors document properly
- PEEC approves NOCLAR proposals for exposure
- Improving firm and engagement tracking, AICPA peer reviewer performance improving
December 2016
- 2017 recommendations regarding state accounting policy,
- 2016 year in review,
- AICPA proposes criteria for cybersecurity risk management,
- PEEC proposes revisions to definitions of "client" and "attest client",
- CPAs seek guidance from state boards following success of marijuana ballot initiatives
- State regulatory and legislative trends,
- improving peer reviewer performance,
- firm and engagement tracking,
- peer review exposure draft,
- timelier remediation and removal of firms from Peer Review Program,
- national peer review administrative fee, increased transparency
Summer 2016
- CGMA FAQs
- Legislative update,
- Evolution of Peer Review Administration,
- UAA Exposure Draft regarding international pathway to licensure and CPA Exam Model Rules,
- Guidance on serving marijuana-related businesses,
- Growing the CPA Pipeline
Spring 2016
- Leading candidates into the CPA pipeline,
- expanding access to CGMA designation to non-CPAs,
- Peer Review proposal to reduce number of Administering Entities (AEs),
- Ethics Team releases Exposure Draft related to client files, commission & referral fees
Fall 2015
- 2015 Legislative Year-in-Review and State of the States Database, increasing transparency in the peer review process, information on the release of the Conceptual Framework toolkits
- Definition of attest, CPE reciprocity, AICPA Codification/State Board Rules Review Task Force, Practice Monitoring of the Future, Enhancing Audit Quality, the Next Version of the CPA Exam, CPE Exposure Draft
