AICPA task force recommends peer review changes.

• Position: AICPA News

An AICPA task force has recommended increasing the transparency of the peer review program, including:

* Communicating the objectives, procedures and oversight results to the public through annual--and in certain cases biannual--reports issued by the AICPA and state CPA societies that administer the program.

* Requesting all state boards of accountancy to make peer review a condition of licensure; and

* Making peer review reports as concise...