Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 32 > Chapter 6 > Article 2 - Certification and Registration

• Accounting services: means services that are commonly and historically performed by accountants, including recording or summarizing financial transactions, bookkeeping, analyzing or verifying financial information, reporting financial results, financial planning or providing attest services, compilation services, tax services or consulting services. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Accredited institution: means any public or private regionally or nationally accredited college or university that is accredited by an organization recognized by the council for higher education accreditation or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Attest services: means the following services to be performed by the holder of a certificate issued by the board:

  (a) Audits or other engagements to be performed in accordance with the statements on auditing standards adopted by the American institute of certified public accountants. See Arizona Laws 32-701

• Board: means the Arizona state board of accountancy established by section 32-702. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Business organization: means a partnership, professional corporation, professional limited liability company, limited liability company or limited liability partnership or any other entity that is recognized by the board and that is established under the laws of any state or foreign country. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Certified public accountant: means an individual who has been issued a certificate of authority by the board to practice as a certified public accountant or who meets the limited reciprocity privilege requirements pursuant to section 32-725. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Client: means a person or entity, other than one's employer, for whom accounting services are provided. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Compilation services: means providing a service of any compilation engagement to be performed in accordance with the statements on standards for accounting and review services. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: means a judgment of conviction by any state or federal court of competent jurisdiction in a criminal cause, regardless of whether an appeal is pending or could be taken, and includes any judgment or order based on a plea of no contest. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• CPA designation: means the title "certified public accountant" or any abbreviation or grammatical derivative of the term "certified public accountant". See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Disciplinary action: means any other regulatory sanctions imposed by the board in combination with, or as an alternative to, relinquishment, revocation or suspension of a certificate or registration, including the imposition of:

  (a) An administrative penalty in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for each violation of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-701

• Employer: means a person or entity that hires an individual to perform a service and that directs and controls the manner in which the service is performed. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Firm: means a business organization, a sole proprietorship or an individual who is registered pursuant to section 32-731. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Good cause: means factors that temporarily prevent a registrant from satisfying a particular requirement in a specific instance as determined by the board and may include:

  (a) A disability. See Arizona Laws 32-701

• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Jurisdiction: means , for the purposes of examination, certification, firm registration or limited reciprocity privilege, the fifty states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Limited reciprocity privilege: means the permission to practice as a certified public accountant in this state pursuant to section 32-725 for an individual whose principal place of business is outside of this state. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Practice of accounting: means providing accounting services for a client or an employer. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Registrant: means any certified public accountant or firm that is registered with the board. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Related courses: means :

  (a) Business administration. See Arizona Laws 32-701

• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Sole proprietor: means the owner of a sole proprietorship. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Sole proprietorship: means a business that is owned by one individual and that does not have a legal distinction between the owner and the business. See Arizona Laws 32-701
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215