Are you an auditor trying to stay up to date on what’s going on at the AICPA, GAO and OMB? Follow the GLS blog for auditing to learn more about the changes happening at the auditing standards board as well as governmental auditing.
Discover the highlights of the AICPA Peer Review Board’s proposed 2027–2030 Strategic Plan. Melisa Galasso breaks down key initiatives focused on modernizing peer review, leveraging technology, and building a sustainable, future-ready reviewer pool to enhance quality and stakeholder engagement in the profession.
Explore key ethical, independence, and quality considerations when engaging in business arrangements with SOC tool providers. Understand threats, safeguards, and compliance best practices, as discussed at the AICPA Engage Conference and highlighted in recent AICPA staff insights.
Explore the proposed 2026 changes to Uniform Guidance, including new regulatory updates, enhanced transparency and accountability measures, clarified definitions, cybersecurity requirements, and implications for grant recipients and auditors. Learn what these updates could mean for compliance and how to prepare for the evolving federal grant landscape.
Sustainability assurance continues to move into the mainstream of the attestation standards. In this short video, Melisa Galasso discusses a March 2026 exposure draft proposing conforming amendments to SSAE Nos. 18, 19, and 21. These amendments are intended to align existing attestation guidance with the proposed SSAE Common Concepts, Examination Engagements, Review Engagements, and Engagements to report on sustainability information.
Discover how the COSO framework adapts to the risks and opportunities of generative AI. Learn practical, actionable guidance for governing GenAI within your existing internal control environment, with key insights from GLS’s in-depth review of the latest COSO report.
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Money Matters for Nonprofits demystifies financial statements and basic accounting, empowering nonprofit board members to better advise their organizations and make an even greater difference in the world.
Melisa F. Galasso is the founder and CEO of Galasso Learning Solutions LLC. A CPA with nearly 20 years of experience in the accounting profession, Melisa designs and facilitates courses in advanced technical accounting and auditing topics, including not-for-profit and governmental accounting.
Her passion is providing high-quality CPE that is meaningful, creates efficiencies and improves quality, and positively impacts ROI. She also supports essential professional development, audit level training, and train the trainer efforts.
Melisa is a Certified Speaking Professional, a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD), and has earned the Association for Talent Development Master Trainer™ designation. Her passion for instructional design and adult learning techniques is one of the differentiators that set her apart from other CPE providers.
She also serves on the FASB’s Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC), AICPA Council, and the AICPA’s Women’s Initiative Executive Committee (WIEC). She also serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the Center for Plain English Accounting. She previously served on the AICPA’s Technical Issues Committee (TIC), the VSCPA’s Board of Directors, and is a past Chair of the NCACPA’s A&A committee. In addition, Melisa is the author of Money Matters for Nonprofits: How Board Members Can Harness the Power of Financial Statements by Understanding Basic Accounting which is available on Amazon or anywhere you purchase books online.
Melisa received a Top 50 Women in Accounting Award in 2021 by Ignition, is a 2020 Enterprising Women of the Year Award recipient, and was honored as a “40 under 40” by CPA Practice Advisor in 2017, 2018, and 2019. She was also named the 2019 Rising Star by her regional NAWBO chapter, received the Don Farmer award for achievement in technical content instruction, and earned several other awards for public speaking and technical training.
