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Explore the latest PCAOB request for public comment on standard setting, as summarized by Melisa Galasso. Learn about proposed updates to agendas, considerations on AI and digital assets, conceptual frameworks, and how you can provide feedback before the August 7th deadline. Stay informed on actionable developments impacting audit standards and CPA practice.
Explore Melisa Galasso’s breakdown of the FASB’s latest proposal impacting investment companies under Topic 946. Learn how new guidance on fair value measurement for equity securities with contractual sale restrictions may introduce exceptions, updated disclosure requirements, and what this means for net asset values. Comments due by July 17th.
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 the highlights of the PEEC’s proposed 2027-2030 strategic plan, including key initiatives around ethics, independence, technology, and stakeholder engagement. Gain practical insight into how these priorities may impact CPAs and the accounting 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.
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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.
