- (A) A registrant shall file an application for renewal on or before January first of each calendar year.
(B) The application for renewal of a registration shall include:
- (1) current information concerning ownership;
- (2) current information concerning the identity of the licensee in charge of the office;
- (3) renewal fee.
(C) As a condition of renewal of registration, an applicant who engages in attest or compilation services, or both, must provide evidence of satisfactory completion of peer review no more frequently than once every three years. Peer review must be conducted in a manner as the board specifies by regulation. This review must include a verification that individuals in the firm, who are responsible for supervising attest or compilation services, or both, and who sign or authorize someone to sign the accountant's report on the financial statements on behalf of the firm, meet the competency requirements set out in the professional standards for these services and these regulations must:
- (1) include reasonable provision for compliance by an applicant that can show that it has, within the preceding three years, undergone a peer review that is a satisfactory equivalent to peer review as generally required pursuant to this subsection;
- (2) require, with respect to peer reviews, that they be subject to oversight by a body established or sanctioned by the board, which shall periodically report to the board on program review effectiveness under its charge and provide to the board a listing of firms that have participated in a peer review program;
- (3) require, with respect to peer review, that the peer review processes be operated and that work and documents be maintained in a manner designed to preserve confidentiality of documents furnished or generated in the course of the review.
- (D) A registration not renewed on or before January first is considered revoked. Continued practice after January fifteenth must be sanctioned as unlicensed practice of accounting.
HISTORY: 2004 Act No. 289, Section 1.