Category Archives: CPTNews

Good News-Harry Parsons (Mar/Apr 2012)

NASBA Board Member, Harry Parsons, CPA, has been recognized for his volunteer work and unwavering support of a much needed community organization. SceneStealers is the only children’s theater arts company in Reno, NV, where every child is given the chance to perform. Students learn all aspects of theater in a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment;…

Ethics Awareness (Mar/Apr 2012)

Is your organization doing anything special to feature or promote business ethics awareness? To get the conversation started: featured below are a few statistics from the Ethics Resource Center’s (ERC) recently released report on their National Business Ethics Survey. The percentage of employees who witnessed misconduct at work fell to a new low of 45%…

NASBA lauds Pitney Bowes VP for “Being a Difference”

Publication: Accounting TodayPublished: February 28, 2012Author: Danielle Lee Robbie Narcisse, vice president of global ethics and business practices for Pitney Bowes, was recently honored with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy Center for the Public Trust’s Being a Difference Award for her high standard of social responsibility and ethical leadership in business. The…

Good News (Jan/Feb 2012)

Ohio Firm Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary with Charity Work Employees of Brockman, Coats, Gedelian & Company, a northeast Ohio accounting firm, recently celebrated the firm’s 25th anniversary by volunteering and donating to 25 local charities. Founding and current managing partner Dave Brockman said, "It was important to us that we recognize this anniversary by demonstrating…

Changing the World One Frame at a Time (Jan/Feb 2012)

The Center for the Public Trust (CPT) launches the 2012 National Ethics in Action Student Video Competition this month as an opportunity for college and university students nationwide to unleash their creativity while focusing on the theme of portraying Ethics in Action. Four prizes will be awarded in two categories; short film, 3-5 minutes in…

Epstein and Clinton Award Presentations (Jan/Feb 2012)

In the October edition of Ethics Matters, five honorees of the Center for the Public Trust’s (CPT) Being a Difference Award were introduced. Since the last edition of the newsletter, the CPT has traveled to Birmingham, Michigan and El Segundo, California, to present two honorees with their awards, each in a unique ceremony. On October…

CPT Co-Sponsors 6th Annual Baruch Audit Conference

A day before the 10th anniversary of Enron’s spectacular bankruptcy filing, on December 1, 2011, the NASBA Center for the Public Trust with Baruch College, of the City University of New York, held its Sixth Annual Auditing Conference on “Ensuring Integrity.”

SCPT Launches Chapters in Knoxville and Newark (Jan/Feb 2012)

This past fall, the Student Center for the Public Trust (SCPT) headed to "Rocky Top" Tennessee and Newark, New Jersey. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UT) became the third university to establish an SCPT chapter. Student leaders hosted a lively kick-off meeting on October 27, joining Lipscomb University as the second school in Tennessee to boast…

The Excitement of 2012 (Jan/Feb 2012)

The year 2012 promises to be great for the NASBA Center for the Public Trust (CPT). We are proud of the foundation our founder and recently retired President & CEO, David Costello built for this organization. I am honored to follow him as the new President of the CPT. My team and I are excited…

CPT Announces 2011 Being a Difference Award Winners (October 2011)

Ethics Matters – October 2011 Each year, the NASBA Center for the Public Trust honors individuals who demonstrate ethics in action, best practices, leadership and corporate citizenship. The annual Being a Difference Awards recognizes those individuals who practice high standards of social responsibility and ethical leadership. We received more nominations this year than we have…