I’ve dropped the prices for the print copies of my books available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes store.
Here is what you can find on-line:
Tragedy of Fraud – Insider Trading Edition
Story of Scott London’s fall from regional audit partner at KPMG to prison inmate because of his insider trading.
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The body of SSARS literature has been updated and clarified. The new document, SSARS #21, was released on October 23, 2014.
It will be effective for financial statements after December 15, 2015. That means it will usually be required for 12/31/15 financials. We will all have to move away from SSARS 19 for our work in 2016. (Unless you choose to apply SSARS 19 for clients with years ending before 12/31/15.)
Since starting this blog, all discussion of compilations and reviews have been posted on my other blog, Attestation Update.
You can find all my discussion of the new standard at the other site.
Check out:
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Print copy and Nook e-book are in addition to availability for the Kindle and another half-dozen formats.
The book is an intentionally short read at about 30 pages. The print copy has 20 pages of text. Focus is to quickly describe the differences between those levels of services using three illustrations:
It also explains the differences in plain language. Well, at least using less accountantese than you would usually get from an accountant.
This is a compilation of posts previously appearing on my blogs, with slight editing.
Where can you find the book?
Print book at Amazon here.
Nook e-book at Barnes and Noble here.
Kindle e-book at Amazon here.
Also available here in other formats:
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Audit. Review. Compilation. What’s the difference? – Illustrations using a football game, buying a used car, and filling a bucket.
What’s the difference between getting an audit, review, or compilation from your CPA firm? This short, 29 page book will help you understand.
Three illustrations help explain the differences:
This is a compilation of articles at my blog, Nonprofit Update.
The book is now available at Amazon.
Now available here in other formats:
Soon to be available at Barnes and Noble.
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Since football season is in full swing, let’s go to the nearest stadium to compare an audit to a review, to a compilation, and to the newest level of service, a preparation report.
Audit
If you were performing an audit, you would be on the field and receive the kickoff at your 20-yard line. A series of passes and runs would slowly move the ball. With effort you would advance to your opponent’s 10-yard line. Good touchdown position.
Advancing the football would be the same as gathering evidence to provide you a reasonable level of assurance so you could issue an audit opinion on the financial statements.
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There are three different levels of services you could obtain from a certified public accountant. These are referred to as compilation, review, and audit.
Financial statements are presented on the basis of some set of accounting rules. This is referred to as the financial reporting framework.
The vast majority of the time, this would be a large body of knowledge that is called generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. Imperfect in implementation though it may be, the concept is that similar transactions will be recorded by all organizations in the same way. In addition, financial statements of similar organizations will actually look similar.
If there is some unique reason to do so, the financial statements could be presented on another basis of accounting.
Compilation
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You could figure out how good a car is by looking at it from across the street.
Or you could look inside & drive it around the block.
Or you could take the car to your mechanic for a couple of hours to get it really checked out .
We can use that as an analogy of the differences between a compilation, a review, and an audit.
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