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Next Board Meeting

The Board of Accountancy will hold its next regular Board meeting Friday, January 26th, 2024 beginning at 9:00 a.m. as a hybrid meeting both in-person and through Microsoft Teams. Connection details will follow closer to the meeting.

Location:
Radisson Hotel Seattle Airport
San Juan Rooms 2 & 3
18118 International Blvd
Seattle, WA 98188 
or 
Microsoft Teams Meeting

CPA Exam Score Credit Relief Initiative

At the October 20, 2023, Board meeting the Board voted unanimously to adopt the CPA Exam Score Credit Relief Initiative proposed by NASBA. This initiative was formulated in response to the National Health Emergency and the hardship it placed on CPA Exam candidates. 

Request for Information (RFI)

Accounting Peer Review Program

The Board is seeking information to create a proposal for the design and third-party administration of a limited scope peer review program.  The limitations include:

Peer Review Volunteer Position Opportunity

The Washington State Board of Accountancy (ACB) is looking for volunteers to serve on the Peer Review Oversight Committee (PROC). Members of this committee are not board members, but rather serve as voluntary PROC members.

Responsibilities include:

CPE Tracker

The Board has developed a feature that allows individuals to populate their CPE Tracker by uploading a pre-formatted CSV file of their CPE Summary rather than individually adding each CPE course.

For more information, please see our CPE Tracker instruction page.

New Executive Director

Governor Jay Inslee appointed Michael Paquette, CPA as the Executive Director of the Washington State Board of Accountancy effective September 16, 2022. 

Michael is a licensed CPA and has extensive experience with management. Since 2019, he has been the budget operations manager at the Washington State Health Care Authority, and prior to that was the assistant director for accounting and financial services at the Washington State Department of Transportation.

He will bring to the job an extensive knowledge of business practices as a CPA that are strategic to the Board.

Changes Coming to Peer Review Administration in Washington

For more than 25 years Julie Phipps has administered the Peer Review Program for Washington CPA firms on behalf of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). Julie plans to retire in May 2023, and the WSCPA has made the decision to outsource the administration of the Peer Review Program to the Colorado Society of CPAs (COCPA) starting May 1, 2023.

Farewell Dave Trujillo

Dave Trujillo, CPA submitted his letter of retirement to Governor Inslee and his last day in the office was April 12, 2022. We would like to express our appreciation of Dave’s service, leadership, and dedication to the profession, the Board, and the citizens of Washington State.

Our best of wishes to Dave in his retirement.

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Announcement of New Executive Director

Governor Jay Inslee appointed David Trujillo, CPA as the Executive Director of the Washington State Board of Accountancy effective April 1, 2021. 

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