(Formerly known as Compilations and Reviews)

Provides practitioners with a fundamental, real-world approach for conducting the highest quality compilations and reviews. It reduces the technical language of official pronouncements to easy-to-read, easy-to-understand advice and procedures and is designed to help the CPA enhance the quality of his or her practice.

The book includes an overview and identification of the professional responsibilities that arise when a CPA accepts a compilation or review engagement, discusses and illustrates the procedures that need to be performed, describes the preparation of the CPA's engagement report, discusses management-use-only compilations, and addresses special engagements such as OCBOA-based financial statements and partnership financial statements. This comprehensive resource also deals with topics ranging from attestation standards for review engagements that do not involve financial statements to financial forecasts and projections.

Compilations and Reviews contains an appendix that assists CPAs in determining what procedures should be performed and what approach should be used in order to perform an efficient compilation or review engagement. Throughout, the guide features numerous checklists, questionnaires, workpapers, sample correspondence, and sample reports that take the auditor through an engagement from the initial evaluation of a client to the issuance of the auditor's report.

A free companion CD-ROM that contains all these knowledge-based tools, which can be modified by practitioners to suit their needs.
 
PART 1: Compiled and Reviewed Financial Statements 

• Overview of Compiled and Reviewed Financial Statements
• Professional Standards of the CPA and the Firm
• Accepting the Engagement
• Performing the Compilation Engagement
• Performing the Review Engagement
• Completing the Engagement
• The Accountant's Report

PART II: Specialized Engagements

• Management-Use-Only Compilation Engagements
• OCBOA Financial Statements
• Personal Financial Statements
• Sole Proprietorship Financial Statements
• Partnership Financial Statements
• S Corporation Financial Statements
• Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships, Not-for-Profit Organizations, and Governmental Entities: Compilation and Review Engagements

PART III: Other Engagements

• Prescribed Forms: Compilation Engagements
• Specified Elements, Accounts, or Items of a Financial Statement
• Pro-Forma Financial Information
• Attestation Standards

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Author: Rosalee Hacker, CPA

This book shows practitioners the most effective approach for conducting the highest quality audits, compilations and reviews of common interest realty associations. It includes the practice aids—checklists, questionnaires, workpapers, sample correspondence, and sample audit, compilation, and review reports—to take the practitioner through an engagement, from the initial evaluation of a client to the issuance of the audit, compilation, or review report.

This edition provides guidance by the FASB and AICPA on the audit, compilation, and review of financial statements of common interest realty associations, based on the guidance and auditing pronouncements available through February 2012 and current through Statements on Standards Accounting and Review Services No. 20 (SSARS-20), "Revised Applicability of Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services."

• Part I is applicable to all audit, compilation, and review engagements of common interest realty associations;
• Part II is applicable to audit engagements; and
• Part III is applicable to compilation and review engagements.

This book consists of 33 chapters and covers all major audit, compilation, and review topics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I:  Common Interest Realty Associations

Chapter 1:  Industry and Regulatory Overview
Chapter 2:  Overview of Accounting Principles and Practices
Chapter 3:  Financial Accounting and Reporting Considerations

Part II:  Audit Engagements

Chapter 4:   Auditing Standards, the Code of Professional Conduct, Quality Control Standards, and the KBA Methodology
Chapter 5:   Financial Statement Assertions, Audit Evidence, and Audit Documentation
Chapter 6:   Pre-Engagement Procedures and Audit Planning
Chapter 7:   Risk Assessment Procedures: Obtaining an Understanding of the CIRA and Its Environment
Chapter 8:   Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement
Chapter 9:   Performing Audit Procedures in Response to Assessed Risks
Chapter 10:  Extent of Audit Procedures and Sampling
Chapter 11:  Analytical Procedures
Chapter 12:  Cash
Chapter 13:  Investments in Securities, Derivative Instruments, and Hedging Activities
Chapter 14:  Receivables and Revenues
Chapter 15:  Property and Equipment
Chapter 16:  Prepaid Expenses, Deferred Charges, Intangibles, and Other Assets
Chapter 17:  Accounts Payable
Chapter 18:  Payroll and Other Liabilities
Chapter 19:  Income Taxes
Chapter 20:  Debt Obligations
Chapter 21:  Equity
Chapter 22:  Revenue, Operating Expenses, and Expenditures for Major Repairs and Replacements
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