ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IN THE U.S.
CONTINUES TO PRESS FOR RECIPROCITY

The Association of Chartered Accountants in the U.S. at its annual dinner meeting in New York hosted representatives from the Institutes of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Canada. Addressing the members of ACAUS, who must also be members of an institute of chartered accountants in another country, Tom Griffin, the president of the Irish institute, took note of the action by British lawmakers to include Chartered Certified Accountants as part of granting reciprocity to CPAs in the U.K. What the lawmakers said was in order to grant authority for CPAs to practice in the U.K., the U.S. jurisdictions must grant reciprocity to both CAs and CCAs. ACAUS members at the dinner continued to express the importance to them of obtaining reciprocity to practice their trade in
the U.S. *