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  • Have You Considered Serving on the Society’s Nominating Committee?

    By:
    John J. Lauchert, CPA, NYSSCPA Secretary/Treasurer
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    Jul 15, 2015

    Are you interested in helping to select who will serve on next year’s NYSSCPA Board of Directors? If so, consider serving on the Society’s Nominating Committee. This year’s 11-person Nominating Committee will be recommending a president-elect, four vice presidents, a secretary/treasurer, five at-large directors and directors from the Mid Hudson, Northeast, Queens/Brooklyn, Rockland and Utica chapters. These nominees are then presented to the membership in a proxy/ballot that is sent out in April.

  • NYSSCPA Weighs in on the Future of Peer Review

    By:
    Staff Reports
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    Jul 7, 2015
    The AICPA’s ambitious plan to revolutionize the 35-year-old peer review process with a near-real time engagement monitoring tool is being positioned to improve practice monitoring overall, but the NYSSCPA has identified some aspects of the proposal that need attention. 

  • Society to FAF: Don’t Dilute the PCC

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jun 23, 2015
    In the three years since it was created, the Private Company Council (PCC) has become such an important part of the standards-setting process that the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) should both increase support for the new body and significantly expand its reach, the NYSSCPA said in a recent comment letter. 

  • Lawmakers Pass Legislation Aimed at Dual Registration Threat

    By:
    Robert Busweiler
    |
    Jun 16, 2015
    The State Senate and Assembly passed legislation on June 16 that would exempt certified public accountants in New York from having to register as private investigators when performing forensic accounting work.

  • NYSSCPA Agrees With FASB on Investment Company Proposal

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Apr 9, 2015
    The NYSSCPA has given its support to a Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposal that would require master-feeder funds to provide financial statements, saying the move would codify what had long been standard industry practice and would boost transparency. The Society expressed its views in a comment letter written by members of its Financial Accounting Standards Committee and published on Feb. 15.

  • Society supports FASB proposal on practical expedient-valued investments

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
    |
    Mar 16, 2015
    The NYSSCPA expressed support for a proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that, if approved, would make it easier to consistently categorize investments in the fair value hierarchy. 

  • NYSSCPA agrees with limited partnership plan, but not retrospective application

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Mar 11, 2015
    Though the NYSSCPA largely agreed with a Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposal meant to resolve certain inconsistencies in how earnings within master limited partnerships (MLP) are handled, it did raise concerns about the board’s plan to implement these changes retrospectively. 
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