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Influencing Financial Policy

FEI’s advocacy efforts influence public policy, accounting and financial reporting issues affecting financial executives, from K Street to Wall Street.

Driven by the activities of FEI’s national advocacy and accounting policy committees, together with government affairs staff located in Washington, D.C. and accounting policy staff located at FEI headquarters in NJ, advocacy initiatives involve information gathering and lobbying on a range of public policy and regulatory issues affecting financial executives, such as:

accounting/auditing standards and financial reporting
corporate and pass through tax reform
finance and information technology issues
pensions and health care legislation
government contracting rules

energy laws
international trade
the federal budget
economic policy

FEI is dedicated to educating and effecting change on behalf of its members on the key issues of the day impacting their businesses.

►fei legislative accomplishments in the 112th congress The 112th Congress adjourned having accomplished a number of FEI’s legislative priorities and setting the stage to make progress toward others in the current 113th Congress. Find FEI’s “Legislative Accomplishments in the 112th Congress” here.	►private companies for tax fairness Private Companies for Tax Fairness (PCTF) is a coalition of large and middle-market privately held and/or family-owned companies. Its goal is to provide a voice for thousands of private companies in the coming tax reform debate in Congress. Click here to learn more about the PCTF.
►fei 2013 legislative priorities Each year, FEI’s Advocacy Committees, working with FEI staff, set our legislative and regulatory priorities. These priority issues are addressed by FEI’s advocacy team in communication with Capitol Hill, the administration and government agencies and include a broad range of public policy and regulatory issues affecting financial executives. Find FEI’s “Top 13 Advocacy Issues for 2013” here.	►congressional scorecard How well does Congress represent the interests of senior-level financial executives? To find out, FEI’s Government Affairs department in Washington, D.C., developed a “Congressional Scorecard” to rate lawmakers’ records on votes taken in Congress on FEI’s priority issues.
►accounting policy updates FEI’s accounting policy education and advocacy function closely follows developments relating to financial reporting and auditing, and provides feedback to a variety of regulatory agencies and standards boards.	►government affairs updates FEI’s Government Affairs office coordinates FEI’s education and advocacy efforts on legislative, rulemaking and public policy issues.
►fei committees Committees are the perfect avenue for anyone willing to work with their peers to advance and protect the public policy interests of businesses across the globe. Click here to visit the FEI Committees page.	►comment letters Written by FEI’s advocacy committees on issues such as proposed and final legislation, accounting standards and regulation impacting senior financial executives and their companies.