When offering or performing services, licensees, CPA-Inactive certificate holders, nonlicensee firm owners, and employees of such persons must:
• Remain honest and objective;
• Not misrepresent facts;
• Not subordinate their judgment to others; and
• Remain free of conflicts of interest unless such conflicts are specifically permitted by board rule or professional standards listed in WAC
4-30-048.
If the language of the professional standards listed in WAC
4-30-048 differ from or conflict with specific board rules, board rules prevail.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
18.04.055(2). WSR 10-24-009, amended and recodified as § 4-30-040, filed 11/18/10, effective 12/19/10; WSR 08-18-016, § 4-25-620, filed 8/25/08, effective 9/25/08; WSR 05-01-137, § 4-25-620, filed 12/16/04, effective 1/31/05; WSR 02-04-064, § 4-25-620, filed 1/31/02, effective 3/15/02; WSR 98-12-048, § 4-25-620, filed 5/29/98, effective 6/29/98. Statutory Authority: RCW
18.40.055 [18.04.055]. WSR 93-22-046, § 4-25-620, filed 10/28/93, effective 11/28/93.]