In recent years the California State Board of Accountancy has devoted considerable time to various problems that are involved in improving reporting standards. The California Board of Accountancy consists of eight members comprising of five certified public accountants, two public accountants and one public member not licensed or registered by the Board. The Board has only those powers and duties conferred on it by the Accountancy Act. These powers and duties are required in the administration of the Act. The Accountancy Act empowers the Board to adopt the rules and regulations necessary to carry out its responsibilities. Upon analysis it is obvious that the rule involves almost all of the basic background in the theory of auditing. Thus, accountants must be familiar with the literature of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to understand the meaning of auditing standards and to keep abreast of the changing concepts related to these standards. Rules of professional conduct that have been established as a result of the authority vested in the Board, are found in Article 9, Chapter 1, Title 16 of the California Administrative Code.

Price Control is made necessary by the conditions which result from a War Economy. Nation's purchasing power increases at the same time the goods available for consumption and use decrease and a "gap" develops between the total expendable incomes and the total goods available in the community. More people are working than in normal times and more goods and services are being produced, but the major portion of these goods and services must be appropriated for military purposes. This gap, then, develops in civilian goods and services, individual incomes increase while the amount of goods available to be purchased becomes less and less. As the military and civilian demands for raw materials and labor increase costs go up and prices begin to rise. Allowed to run its course the "price-cost" inflationary spiral would envelop all sectors of the economy and would end in economic disaster. To combat the danger of inflation national price control has been established. Beginning under the authority of an executive order and operating primarily by means of voluntary agreements to keep prices down.

Reviews the book "The Professional C.P.A.: Examination," vol. 1, "Text and Problems," vol. 2, "Solutions," by James Don Edwards and John W. Rushwinckel.