Economy

Weaver's Goldfarb Named Chair of CFP Board

The American Institute of CPAs has begun selling digital versions of more than 30 of its most popular books on accounting, auditing and practice management.

The American Institute of CPAs has partnered with the Fox Financial Planning Network, a financial services consulting firm in San Diego, to help CPAs add financial planning to their practices.

Canada’s three legacy accounting bodies—the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Certified Management Accountants of Canada, and the Certified General Accountants of Canada—presented a proposed framework to their members Tuesday for uniting Canada’s accounting profession.

Coming Events

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants could eventually merge with the American Institute of CPAs, according to CIMA’s chief executive.

CPAmerica International, an association of more than 80 CPA firm, has unveiled a series of organizational changes and expanded member services teams.

NASBA Names New Prez of Center for Public Trust

The American Institute of CPAs and two Brazilian accounting organizations have signed a two-year agreement paving the way for the CPA Exam to be offered in South America next year.

Mass. Society Honors Women to Watch

SEC WARNED AGAINST CONDORSEMENT APPROACH

We're confident we're not alone in witnessing a number of questionable decisions by the AICPA's managers. One or two poor choices can be overlooked as normal mistakes, but the pattern is clear, to the point that we wonder why people stay affiliated unless they feel management is advancing their special narrow interests.

The American Institute of CPAs settled its copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday with KAPLI Inc., a provider of review course materials, over the company’s alleged use of some of the questions and test items from the AICPA’s Uniform CPA Exam that had not previously been made public.

The Texas Society of CPAs has weighed in on the Financial Accounting Foundation’s controversial proposal to set up a Private Company Standards Improvement Council and sent a letter expressing its “respectful disagreement.”

Financial Executives International has teamed up with the Center for Audit Quality, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors on a new anti-fraud quiz.

Mike Karlins, a partner at the Woodlands, Texas-based CPA firm Karlins & Ramey LLC, was recently accepted into membership of Construction Industry CPAs/Consultants Association by executive director John Corcoran in Chicago during CICPAC’s recent annual conference.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Executive Committee has published a working draft of a new AICPA Accounting and Valuation Guide, “Testing Goodwill for Impairment.”