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PDFWAC 4-30-048

Compliance with standards.

(1) A licensee who performs professional services shall comply with standards promulgated by the appropriate body for each service undertaken.
(2) Authoritative bodies include, but are not limited to, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), its Code of Professional Conduct, its definitions, and interpretations, and other AICPA standards; the Internal Revenue Code (IRC); the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); and federal, state, and local audit, regulatory and tax agencies; the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB); the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB); the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB); the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB); the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB); the U.S. Governmental Accountability Office (GAO); and the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
(3) However, if the requirements found in the professional standards differ from the requirements found in specific board rules, board rules prevail.
(4) For the purposes of this rule, "licensees" includes licensees, licensees with an inactive status, CPA firms, nonlicensee firm owners, employees of such persons, out-of-state individuals with practice privileges under RCW 18.04.350(2), and out-of-state firms permitted to offer or render certain professional services in this state under the conditions prescribed in RCW 18.04.195.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.04.055. WSR 23-04-088, § 4-30-048, filed 1/31/23, effective 3/3/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.04.055(2). WSR 11-07-070, § 4-30-048, filed 3/22/11, effective 4/22/11; WSR 10-24-009, amended and recodified as § 4-30-048, filed 11/18/10, effective 12/19/10; WSR 08-18-016, § 4-25-631, filed 8/25/08, effective 9/25/08; WSR 05-01-137, § 4-25-631, filed 12/16/04, effective 1/31/05; WSR 02-04-064, § 4-25-631, filed 1/31/02, effective 3/15/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.04.055 (2) and (6). WSR 00-11-071, § 4-25-631, filed 5/15/00, effective 6/30/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.04.055(6). WSR 98-12-050, § 4-25-631, filed 5/29/98, effective 6/29/98. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.40.055 [18.04.055]. WSR 93-22-046, § 4-25-631, filed 10/28/93, effective 11/28/93.]
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