ALSB Past President Sally Gunz is coordinating the ALSB response and is soliciting advice from ALSB members.  Reach her directly at [log in to unmask]

Dan

>>> [log in to unmask] 03/10/01 18:45 PM >>>
>Who are the important people to contact and what is the official ALSB
position with respect to the new CPA exam content and format?   I know we want
to preserve as much law content as possible, but is there a position paper in
direct response to this "final draft"?  Does the draft still have to be voted
on somewhere?  Where and when?


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>What would be a real help is for someone to do a comparison right up front:
>today's coverage v. proposed coverage. This, should be in terms of percent
>coverage and topic coverage and would be the beginning point for us to work
>out a response.
>
>Would  someone volunteer to do a quick comparison and distribute -- we can
>double check it as we get into the more detailed task of preparing a
>response.
>
>This following is the list of those who have agreed to work with their
>respective State licensing bodies. We have 15 states covered. Please check if
>your State is covered and volunteer if it is not. It will be very important
>that we present a consistent message to each State:
>
>Arkansas
>Laurie Lucas <[log in to unmask]>
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>California
>"J Highsmith@CSUF" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Delaware
>Michael Katz <[log in to unmask]>
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>Florida
>Diana Dawson   [log in to unmask]
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>Indiana:
>"CHRISTIANSEN, LINDA" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Iowa
> Nancy Hauserman <[log in to unmask]>
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>Kansas
> John Conlee [log in to unmask]>
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>Louisiana
>Anne Judice <[log in to unmask]>
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>Michigan
>"Albert D. Spalding, Jr." <[log in to unmask]>
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>Norman Hawker <[log in to unmask]>
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>Minnesota
>Brad Sleeper <[log in to unmask]>
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>Nevada
>[log in to unmask] (Bob AAlberts)
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>New Mexico
>"Lizbeth G. Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Ohio
>Dexter Woods <[log in to unmask]>
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>South Dakota
>"Dykstra, DeVee" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Wisconsin
>Greg Naples <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Norman Hawker wrote:
>
>> I expected worse. Law is 40% of the Regulation section and about 20%
>> of the Business Environment section.
>>
>> Norm Hawker
>>
>> At 6:39 AM -0500  on 3/9/01, sgunz wrote:
>>
>> >The new exposure draft for the AICPA exam is now out and we have to
>> >prepare a response (I am finding out by when). For those of you with
>> >expertise in this, please go to aicpa.org to get it. It is the first
>> >item on the front page.
>> >
>> >I suggest that Ivan and I will coordinate a respones but I obviously
>> >have limited expertise in this so will be heavily dependent on your
>> >comments. Please let me know if you are able to do a detailed analysis
>> >and we will put a group together for this so eveyrone isn't doing the
>> >same thing and we can easily share info. For everyone else, please just
>> >pass on comments directly to myself or Ivan or alsbtalk.
>> >
>> >I haven't had time to gauge how diminished is the coverage. If it is
>> >serious, I suggest at this stage we might also consider kicking in
>> >responses to State licensing bodies. You will recall I started gathering
>> >names of those who would be prepared to do local lobbying. I have that
>> >list at work and will distribute it as soon as I get in a) to remind you
>> >of what you offered and b) to remind everyone else we have a lot of gaps
>> >to cover.
>> >
>> >Thanks.
>> >
>> >Sally
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Norman Hawker
>> Associate Professor
>> Haworth College of Business
>> Western Michigan Uiversity
>> 1903 West Michigan Avenue
>> Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5120
>> 616 387-6118