Pursuant to a Securities and Exchange Commission order, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) established an accounting support fee to fund the annual budget of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Each quarter, FINRA collects a quarter of the annual GASB accounting support fee from its member firms. Each member firm’s assessment is based on its portion of the total par value of municipal securities transactions reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board by all FINRA members in the previous calendar quarter.
