The AICPA is the world’s largest member association representing the accounting profession that sets ethical standards for the profession and U.S. auditing standards for private companies, nonprofit organizations, federal, state and local governments.
Financial accounting and reporting standards for public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
The GASB establishes accounting and financial reporting standards for U.S. state and local governments that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
The IIA provides internal audit professionals worldwide with authoritative guidance organized in the IPPF as mandatory guidance and recommended guidance.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.
This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive guide to auditing standards (SASs, SSAEs, SSARSs and Interpretations), practices, and procedures for 2022 set by the AICPA, under which U. S. audits are conducted. Auditors must comply with and understand every aspect of GAAS in order to meet AICPA standards, and this Guide explains them clearly, providing explicit information on how to conduct your analyses accurately, effectively and efficiently. It gives practical direction on the steps necessary to comply with GAAS for the entire auditing process. It includes explanations of all attestation and review, compilation, and preparation standards, and a glossary of relevant terminology. It includes areas like Materiality, Audit reports, ERISA audits, SSAE direct examination engagements, and Practitioner's review reports.
The most comprehensive guide to US GAAP—a one-stop place that helps you stay up-to-date on interpretation and explanation of the relevant principles as they change. Wiley GAAP 2022 provides the most complete coverage of all Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Topics--including the latest updates. Each chapter includes discussion of perspectives and issues, sources of GAAP, practice-oriented examples, and accurate definitions of terms, concepts, and rules.
Streamline financial statement preparation with this cross-referenced guide. FSDM is a natural complement to Wiley GAAP, providing a complete set of tools for statement preparation. This useful reference is formatted in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification® (ASC) schema, with information delineated as Presentation, Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue, Expenses, and Broad Transactions. Explicit examples enable easy customization, streamlining the statement preparation process and potentially improving the effectiveness of disclosures with clear presentation of information that is most important to users.
Audit Guide by AICPA StaffThis new edition provides up-to-date information and expert guidance on single audits and Uniform Guidance compliance audit requirements. It provides nonfederal entities receiving federal awards with important information on implementing the Uniform Guidance.
This book addresses the practice of internal auditing using GAAS (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards), GAGAS (Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards) and International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards) as enunciated by the IIA. Unique in that it is primarily written to guide internal auditors in the process and procedures necessary to carry out professionally accepted internal audit functions, it includes everything necessary to start, complete and evaluate an internal audit practice, simplifying the task for even non-professionals.
Although the concept "Cash is King" is today widely recognized, the cash flow statement was rather neglected until the EU accounting regulators discovered its relevance in explaining the real value of the business. This book investigates the relevance of the operating cash flow as reported under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS/IFRS) for the largest European and US listed companies in the past recent years. Using a model which measures the market value of equity as a function of accounting variables, the author concludes that operating cash flow represents a significant variable in determining the value relevance of the largest listed companies. These findings have implications for continued requirements for disclosure of cash flow information under IAS 7.
In the late 1980's financial accounting in Britain was in disarray. 'Creative' accounting was rife. The authority of the industry's standard-setters had been drastically compromised when their rules for inflation accounting were first ignored by many firms and then abandoned. Also, rapid change in the financial industry was generating complex new financial schemes for which existing accounting standards were inadequate. This book tells the story of the next decade: the problems the standard-setters faced, both technical and political, the resistance they met, the solutions they developed, and the durability of their work. Innovations they developed have become part of global accounting standards. The story is told in the words of three Board members, all of whom had spent their careers in accounting, one as senior technical partner of a Big 4 audit firm, one as executive in major multinational businesses, and one as a university professor.
Drawing on a wide range of international examples, the author presents statistical studies, case material, and standard-setters' opinions on company accounting before, during, and after M&A. The book explores the challenges for standard-setters in regulating information flows during and after M&A, and for others wishing to learn from financial statements how a deal has affected performance. This readable book is targeted not just at accounting specialists, but at anyone who is comfortable reading the serious financial press, who is intrigued by what is going on in the massive M&A market, and wants to be better-informed about M&A.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to completely transform accounting and auditing professions, yet its current application within these areas is limited and fragmented. Existing AI implementations tend to solve very narrow business issues, rather than serving as a powerful tech framework for next-generation accounting. This book describes how and why AI can be comprehensively integrated within audit management, leading to better automated models, forensic accounting, and beyond.
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the role of financial statement auditing in contemporary society, including the auditor's role in evaluating the financial reporting of an auditee--a topic of central concern in the recent comprehensive review of the auditing profession in the Brydon Report (2019). Focused on private sector financial statement auditing, the book includes perspectives on social theory, history and the importance of professional standards. The thought-provoking final chapter challenges students to consider the effectiveness of auditing in evaluating increasingly risky and complex accounting estimates involving assumptions about future events.
Master the fundamentals of auditing employee benefit plans in accordance with AICPA standards and ERISA rules and regulations. Written by a member on the expert panel for employee benefit plans, this book is designed to give an understanding of the requirements and audit procedures related to defined contribution, defined benefit, and health and welfare plans to help accountants more effectively plan and carry out their audit.
This broad-ranging book covers FASB accounting and reporting developments that apply to all companies. The author presents implementation guidelines and disclosure illustrations from actual financial statements.
An author who is expert in the field delivers a step-by-step guide to financial investigation that can be applied to almost any forensic accounting use-case. The book emphasizes the use of best evidence as you work through problem-solving data analysis techniques that address the common challenge of imperfect and incomplete information. Intended for for practicing and aspiring fraud examiners and investigators, accountants, and auditors.
Since the global financial crisis of 2007–8, new laws and regulations have been introduced to improve transparency in financial reporting. Despite dramatically increased flow of information to shareholders and the public, the volume of data is not always meaningful or useful. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with insiders and experts, this book charts what has gone wrong with financial reporting and offers a range of solutions to improve information to both investors and the public. The book provides a timely exploration of the industry’s failings and present difficulties, and the possible impact of future disruption.
This book covers every aspect of forensic accounting, anti-fraud control systems, and fraud investigations. The author uses his own case experience to guide the reader through each phase of a forensic accounting assignment and fraud investigation. The book opens with an explanation of what happened to a company that was ensnared in a huge commodity purchasing scheme. Using his knowledge and experience gained over 40 years, the author illustrates that unexpected fraud occurrences can happen to any company, in any industry.
Accessible and practical, this book is for everyone who wants to stop fraud, including those working in accounting and finance, management, specialist functions, such as audit, compliance and security, and anyone else who aspires to be a fraud detective and stop fraud and corruption. It features a series of proven and easy-to-follow recipes show how to find the tell-tale signs of fraud and corruption and work with colleagues to deal with fraud smartly, keeping the organization you work for healthy and clean. How to Find Fraud and Corruption offers wayfinding techniques for identifying and recognizing common frauds (via suppliers, business partners, consultants, customers) and more complex frauds (dirty money havens, bribes, financial reporting, conflicts of interest).
This guide enables the accountant and financial manager to examine and report on the description of a system for manufacturing, producing and distributing goods as well as on the controls within that system using a dynamic, proactive, and agile approach. It will show how to conduct this examination in accordance with the attestation standards. The guide may also be helpful when providing readiness assessments to clients, who are not quite ready for an examination level service and need help to get there. The guide also includes excerpts from the two distinct, but complementary sets of criteria developed by the AICPA to assist practitioners with SOC for Supply Chain engagements.
Learn the latest accounting and auditing developments affecting not-for-profits so that accountants, auditors, and financial managers can prepare financial statements with confidence. This work covers new FASB requirements and information on the latest OMB and Yellow Book developments. It features major program determination and case studies related to revenue recognition and auditing documentation and covers hot topics including:
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Auditor Essentials: 100 concepts, tools, and techniques for success by Hernan MurdockInternal auditors must know many concepts, techniques, control frameworks, and remain knowledgeable despite the many changes occurring in the marketplace and their profession. This easy to use reference makes this process easier and ensures auditors can obtain needed information quickly and accurately. This book consists of 100 topics, concepts, tips, tools and techniques that relate to how internal auditors interact with internal constituencies and addresses a variety of technical and non-technical subjects. Non-auditors have an easy-to-use guide that increases their understanding of what internal auditors do and how, making it easier for them to partner with them more effectively.
Call Number: CRC e-book
ISBN: 9781138036918
Publication Date: 2019
Corporate Financial Distress by Marisa AgostiniThis book offers an overview of the concept of corporate financial distress, emphasizing the typologies of corporate paths included in this broad concept. It updates academic literature about the evaluation of corporate financial distress from the first studies about failure prediction to the most recent contributions. It also discusses the history of developing going concern standards in both international and U.S. contexts. It is intended for academic researchers of accounting, auditing and finance; practitioners and standard setters
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9783319784991
Publication Date: 2018
Fraud Examination Casebook with Documents by William H. Beecken; Clark A. BeeckenThis volume provides critical practice for students and new CPAs; criminal and insurance investigators; and attorneys seeking additional guidance on real-world fraud investigation. It has five cases that include over 100 pages of documentation, this guide helps you put your conceptual knowledge to work as you conduct full-length Fraud Examinations from predication through report. It also includes short instructional narratives guide you through tools like horizontal and vertical analysis, report writing, and other important tasks, while Excel templates streamline the process and kick start your investigation.
Call Number: Wiley e-book
ISBN: 9781119349990
Publication Date: 2017
M&A Disputes by A. Vincent Biemans; Gerald M. HansenWith deep insight from experts in the field--including valuable advice from the arbitrator's perspective--this book guides you through the entire process to explore the variables at work, including GAAP. The high volume of M&A transactions makes post-closing price adjustment provisions and accounting arbitrations a critical part of doing business.
Call Number: Wiley ebook
ISBN: 9781119331919
Publication Date: 2017
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This 2021 reference is a revised and comprehensive resource on the latest international standards, as outlined by the IASB. The guide contains a wide range of practical examples and guidance on the expanding framework for unified financial reporting. The authors provide clear IFRIC interpretations and includes IFRS 9 Financial Instruments; IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers; IFRS 16 Leases, IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, and incorporates the revised Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting 2018. The authors are experts on IFRS® from PKF International, a firm that provides high quality audit, accounting, tax, and business advisory solutions to international and domestic organizations.
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Accrual practices and reform experiences in OECD countries by OECD and International Federation of AccountantsFinancial reporting is one of the foundations of good fiscal management. This study reviews and compares accounting and budgeting practices at the national government level in OECD countries. It also discusses both the challenges and benefits of accruals reforms. Finally, it looks at some steps countries are taking to make better use of accrual information in the future. This is a joint publication with the International Federation of Accountants and the OECD.
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