April 1 , 2004
The Monthly Newspaper of the NYSSCPA
Vol. 7, No.6

What's Inside

SEC Approves Form 8-K Changes

Web Notes

Committee Close Up

Columbia Business School Offers Course on Financial Integrity

Conference to Provide Important Guidance on Section 404

Society Takes Popular Show on the Road

Media Relations

New Developments and Regulations Serve as Backdrop to May 18 Benefits Conference

 

 

 

LaValle Amends Legislation to Establish Independent Professional Boards

Lights, Camera, Action!

Joe Buble, a partner with Citrin Cooperman & Company, and Marie Marsina, Buble’s client (far left), discuss the Alternative Minimum Tax in an interview with NBC Consumer Interest Reporter Roseanne Colletti. Media representatives frequently contact the Society looking for subjects to interview about accounting matters. This interview was expected to air on NBC on March 19.

 

By Dennis O’Leary, Legislative Counsel

ALBANY—State Sen. Kenneth LaValle has made significant changes to his bill to create independent state boards for the professions. 

The primary change to the bill, S.3405-C, which passed in its former version in the Senate last June but did not advance in the Assembly, is that the Board of Regents would continue to appoint the professional members of state boards.

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Sarbanes-Oxley Helps Guide Public Authority Reform Proposal

By Jay Dismukes and Kate Prouty

NEW YORK— In drafting his recently issued proposal to make New York’s public authorities more accountable, State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi continued the trend of numerous reform initiatives that have looked to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as the legislative archetype for enacting business changes. Continue...

PCAOB Approves Internal Control Standard

By Simon Eskow

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board last month unanimously approved its much-discussed internal control audit standard. Continue...

FAE Folio

By Jo Ann Golden

There are several sections in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that deal directly with the offense of destroying documents or impeding investigations related to acts involving public companies. If an incident occurs, the government investigates, and cooperation is not only necessary or expected, it’s mandated. Continue...

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