The AICPA Peer Review Board at its meeting in October 1996 voted proposed changes to Standards for Performing and Reporting on Peer Reviews. The ballot draft has not undergone any major changes from the original proposal, except that the effective date was modified from all peer reviews commencing on or after January 1, 1997, to all peer review years beginning on or after January 1, 1997. The change in the effective date is to eliminate some of the transitional issues and provide time for the development of educational and implementation guidance materials. The effective date of the proposed peer review standards was initially established to coincide with the new statements on quality control standards. Firms' establishing quality control standards under SQCS Nos. 2 and 3 that have their peer review during 1997 would fall into a transitional period, where part of their review year would fall under the nine elements of quality control standards while the other part of the year would fall under the new five elements and the monitoring standard called for in SQCS No. 2 and 3. The initiation of the new quality control standards is still effective January 1, 1997. The exposure draft's effective date change does not impact the establishment date of the new quality control standards.