Available: October 2011

The primary objective of the GAAS Practice Manual is to provide a complete, quick and valuable reference source for the practitioner of the currently effective pronouncements of Statements on Auditing Standards, Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, Statements on Standards on Accounting and Review Services, and the new PCAOB Auditing Standards–and the interpretations of those standards.

Although the Sections in this book follow the sequence of sections presented in the AICPA's Professional Standards, the material is presented and analyzed in a different format. Each Section is divided into three major parts:

1. What Every Practitioner Should Know–which discusses the specific standard, its basic requirement and the practitioner's essential responsibilities.
2. Practice Issues and Frequently Asked Questions–which focuses on techniques for applying the standard by using a Q&A format.
3. Illustrations and Practice Aids–which includes checklists, questionnaires, sample working papers, sample correspondence, and sample accountant's reports.

Many of the illustrations and practice aids in the book appear on the free, companion CD-ROM that comes with GAAS Practice Manual. The adaptable sample letters, reports and checklists found in the text can be printed and customized to meet all of your auditing needs.

The Manual includes a cross-reference to the original pronouncements chart and a detailed topical index.

The 2012 edition has been updated for new pronouncements through the issuance of SAS-121 (Revised Applicability of Statement on Auditing Standards No. 100, Interim Financial Information).

The 2012 edition is current through the following pronouncements:

- SAS-121 (Revised Applicability of Statement on Auditing Standards No. 100, Interim Financial Information)

- SSAE-17 Reporting on Compiled Prospective Financial Statements When the Practitioner’s Independence Is Impaired)

- SSARS-20 (Revised Applicability of Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services)

The 2012 edition also provides information on the AICPA's Accounting Standards Board (ASB) Clarity Project, which aims to clarify U.S. GAAS and converge them with international auditing standards.

Extant individual AU Sections that are affected by the ASB's Clarity Project contain Practice Points that address the issuance of (1) exposure drafts of clarified auditing standards, or (2) final clarified auditing standards, as applicable. In addition, as the 2012 GAAS Practice Manual goes to press, the ASB has issued SASs

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Author: Dr. Leo Troy

Determine a company's true measure of performance and value. The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

The Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

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Author: Leo Troy Ph. D.

CCH's Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios is the first step in helping to determine a company's true measure of performance and value.  The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin. 

The Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

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• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
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• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
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• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and reli

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Without question, the Manual for the Handling of Applications for Patents, Designs and Trademarks throughout the World is the most comprehensive, authoritative reference for the international industrial property practice. It consists of 8 volumes.

Its exhaustive contents include:

• Separate chapters, in alphabetical order, for nearly 200 countries and several regional industrial property protection systems.
• The full text of the most important convention, treatises, and agreements (including the Paris Convention, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and the Madrid Agreement).
• A section on the European Patent System, describing the European Patent Convention and its implementing regulations.

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Information is given, inter alia, with respect to the following:
 
Patents:

• Kinds of Patents available
• Duration of protection
• Who may apply
• What may be patented
• Novelty requirements
• Filing, examination and granting procedure
• Requirements for filing application
• Priority
• Annuities and other fees
• Working requirements
• Compulsory licenses
• Rights of prior use
• Restoration
• Infringement
• Assignment
• Licenses
• Marking

 
Trademarks:

• Duration of protection
• Legal effect
• Who may apply
• What can be registered as a mark
• What is excluded from registration
• Filing, examination and registration procedure
• Requirements for registration
• Requirements for renewal
• Assignment
• Licenses
• Infringement
• Fees
• Service marks
• Collective marks
• Certification marks
• Marking
• Use requirements
• Protection of well-known marks
• Cancellation
• Invalidation
• Classification

 Designs:

• What can be protected
• Duration and renewal
• Who may apply
• Novelty requirements
• Procedure
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• Annuities (if any)

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Your business is e-volving at a rapid pace and the tax implications are often overwhelming. It's complex, and you know you need to stay connected, but how? CCH is once again providing you with leading edge solutions and is proud to bring you the first authoritative reference book of it's kind: GST and E-Commerce: Planning and Risk Management. You'll find volumes of basic and detailed information in one convenient, targeted source. It will connect you with relevant, critical information about GST/HST in Canada. If you're doing business online, or advising someone who does, you need this book!

Target Audience

• Companies that sell or distribute products or services through the Internet
• Companies that purchase or consume products or services that are supplied through the Internet
• Companies that promote or advertise through the Internet
• Companies that do anything remotely by electronic means, including remote hosting, data backup, transmission, remote access to software or servers, remote security, and remote file sharing

Features include:

• Comprehensive discussion of the manner in which the GST applies to e-commerce activities of every nature
• Detailed review of CRA e-commerce rulings and formal administrative policies issued in the past five years
• Discussion of CRA policy imperatives and the manner in which these imperatives impact on the taxation of e-commerce
• Identification of e-commerce trends, limitations, anomalous results and outstanding issues to be resolved
• Focus on threshold and other contentious issues including jurisdictional issues
• Discussion of carrying on business and permanent establishment tests in the e-commerce environment
• Discussion of audit patterns and leading exposure issues
• Exploration of planning opportunities for resident and non-resident businesses

Each topic includes a review of the current legislation and Canada Revenue Agency rulings and other documents.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 – Overview of the Book and Evolution of E-Commerce GST Rules
• Chapter 2 – Overview of the GST
• Chapter 3 – Characterization of Supply
• Chapter 4 – Single Versus Multiple Supplies
• Chapter 5 – Place of Supply
• Chapter 6 – Zero-Rating
• Chapter 7 – GST Registration and the Non-Resident Override
• Chapter 8 – Permanent Establishment Issues
• Chapter 9 – Carrying on Business in Canada
• Chapter 10 – Agency
• Chapter 11 – Introduction to the Rulings Chapters
• Chapter 12 – Advertising Services
• Chapter 13 – Third Party Sales of Goods
• Chapter 14 – Software and Software Related Offerings
• Chapter 15 – Telecommunication Services

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Author: Eric S. Berman, CPA

Demonstrates in a detailed manner how a governmental entity can implement the complex standards established by GASB-34 and beyond through a worksheet approach. (A companion publication, Governmental GAAP Guide, discusses financial accounting and reporting standards necessary to prepare the basic external financial statements of a governmental entity.) The emphasis of Governmental GAAP Practice Manual is on the process of preparing financial statements.

Chapter 1 of the Governmental GAAP Practice Manual provides a detailed analysis of the interrelationship between the modified accrual basis of accounting and the accrual basis of accounting. Included is a comprehensive checklist of transactions and events that typically require a worksheet entry. Starting in Chapter 2 is a comprehensive illustration that continues through the remaining chapters of the book. For governmental funds, a variety of transactions are illustrated and journalized in Chapters 2 through 6, which result in a year-end trial balance for each individual fund based on the modified accrual basis of accounting. In Chapter 14, these trial balances are used as the basis for developing the information needed to prepare the fund financial statements. Chapter 16 illustrates the worksheet methodology for converting the information to the accrual basis.

A similar approach is used for proprietary funds and fiduciary funds.

In Chapter 16 the basic financial statements (including the fund financial statements and government-wide statements) are prepared based on the information developed in Chapter 13 and Chapter 14. Chapter 17 provides a discussion of note disclosure concepts and a listing of the required note disclosures applicable to state and local government financial statements. Chapter 18 discusses and develops information related to management's discussion and analysis and other required supplementary information. Chapter 19 illustrates combining financial statements that are presented as part of supplementary information included in a governmental entity's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Chapter 20 provides the preparers of financial statements with an in-depth review of the statistical section of the CAFR.

Governmental Funds

• The General Fund
• Special Revenue Funds
• Capital Project Funds
• Debt Service Funds
• Permanent Funds

Proprietary Funds

• Enterprise Funds
• Internal Service Funds

Fiduciary Funds

• Pension (and Other Employee Benefits) Trust Funds
• Private-Purpose Trust Funds
• Investment Trust Funds and Individual Investment Accounts
• Agency Funds

The Consolidation and Conversion Process

• Developing Information for Fund Financial Statements
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Demonstrates in a detailed manner how a governmental entity can implement the complex standards established by GASB-34 and beyond through a worksheet approach. (A companion publication, Governmental GAAP Guide, discusses financial accounting and reporting standards necessary to prepare the basic external financial statements of a governmental entity.) The emphasis of Governmental GAAP Practice Manual is on the process of preparing financial statements.

Chapter 1 provides a detailed analysis of the interrelationship between the modified accrual basis of accounting and the accrual basis of accounting. Included is a comprehensive checklist of transactions and events that typically require a worksheet entry. Starting in Chapter 2 is a comprehensive illustration that continues through the remaining chapters of the book. For governmental funds, a variety of transactions are illustrated and journalized in Chapters 2 through 6, which result in a year-end trial balance for each individual fund based on the modified accrual basis of accounting. In Chapter 14, these trial balances are used as the basis for developing the information needed to prepare the fund financial statements. Chapter 16 illustrates the worksheet methodology for converting the information to the accrual basis.

A similar approach is used for proprietary funds and fiduciary funds.

Chapter 17 uses the information developed in previous chapters to present management's discussion and analysis, notes, and other required supplementary information mandated by the GASB standards.

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 Author: George Georgiades, CPA,

Provides a complete, quick, and valuable reference source for financial statement disclosures and key presentation requirements.

• Over 750 examples of realistic sample footnote disclosures to assis in the preparation of financial statements for an audit, a review, or compilation engagement.
• Facilitates compliance with U.S. GAAP by integrating, in each chapter, the specific disclosure and key presentation requirements with the sample footnotes.
• Provides sample disclosures that are technically sound, understandable, and comprehensive and that cover a variety of scenarios, from the most common to the most unusual.
• Incorporates all currently effective accounting standards, including those that cover areas of unusual difficulty, such as financial instruments, fair value, business combinations, consolidation, income taxes, pensions, accounting changes, and variable interest entities.

All of the sample disclosures in the GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual are included on the accompanying CD-ROM.

This Manual is arranged into the following major parts, consistent with the Codification’s broad structure:

• Part 1 General Principles (Topic Codes 100s)
• Part 2 Presentation (Topic Codes 200s)
• Part 3 Assets (Topic Codes 300s)
• Part 4 Liabilities (Topic Codes 400s)
• Part 5 Equity (Topic Codes 500s)
• Part 6 Revenue (Topic Codes 600s)
• Part 7 Expenses (Topic Codes 700s)
• Part 8 Broad Transactions (Topic Codes 800s)
• Part 9 Other

Each chapter consists of the following parts:

1. Executive Summary.
2. Authoritative Accounting Literature.
3. Disclosure and Key Presentation Requirements.
4. Examples of Financial Statement Disclosures.

The GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual is current through FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-12, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220) — Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05.

Part I General Principles
Part II Presentation
Part III Assets
Part IV Liabilities
Part V Equity
Part VI Revenue
Part VII Expenses
Part VIII Broad Transactions
Part IX Other
Accounting Resou

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George Georgiades, CPA

Provides a complete, quick, and valuable reference source for financial statement disclosures and key presentation requirements.

• Provides over 750 examples of realistic sample footnote disclosures to assist in the preparation of financial statements for an audit, a review, or a compilation engagement.
• Facilitates compliance with U.S. GAAP by integrating, in each chapter, the specific disclosure and key presentation requirements with the sample footnotes.
• Provides sample disclosures that are technically sound, understandable, and comprehensive and that cover a variety of scenarios, from the most common to the most unusual.
• Incorporates all currently effective accounting standards, including those that cover areas of unusual difficulty, such as financial instruments, fair value, business combinations, consolidation, income taxes, pensions, accounting changes, and variable interest entities.

All of the sample disclosures are included on the accompanying CD-ROM. Therefore, once you’ve identified the disclosure suited to your specific needs, you can simply select it from the CD-ROM, place it into your financial statements, then modify it as necessary. Also included is a financial statement disclosures checklist (annual and interim) that provides a centralized resource of the required and recommended GAAP disclosures and key presentation items currently in effect, using the style referencing under the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. It is designed to assist the user in determining whether the required financial statement disclosures and key presentation matters have been addressed.

This Manual is arranged into the following major parts, consistent with the Codification’s broad structure:

• Part 1 General Principles (Topic Codes 100s)
• Part 2 Presentation (Topic Codes 200s)
• Part 3 Assets (Topic Codes 300s)
• Part 4 Liabilities (Topic Codes 400s)
• Part 5 Equity (Topic Codes 500s)
• Part 6 Revenue (Topic Codes 600s)
• Part 7 Expenses (Topic Codes 700s)
• Part 8 Broad Transactions (Topic Codes 800s)
• Part 9 Other

Current through FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-05, Service Concession Arrangements.

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Author: George Georgiades, CPA

Provides a complete, quick, and valuable reference source for financial statement disclosures and key presentation requirements.

• Over 750 examples of realistic sample footnote disclosures to assist in the preparation of financial statements for an audit, a review, or a compilation engagement.
• Facilitates compliance with U.S. GAAP by integrating, in each chapter, the specific disclosure and key presentation requirements with the sample footnotes.
• Provides sample disclosures that are technically sound, understandable, and comprehensive and that cover a variety of scenarios, from the most common to the most unusual.
• Incorporates all currently effective accounting standards, including those that cover areas of unusual difficulty, such as financial instruments, fair value, business combinations, consolidation, income taxes, pensions, accounting changes, and variable interest entities.

All of the sample disclosures in the GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual are included on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Also included is a financial statement disclosures checklist.

• Part 1 General Principles (Topic Codes 100s)
• Part 2 Presentation (Topic Codes 200s)
• Part 3 Assets  (Topic Codes 300s)
• Part 4 Liabilities (Topic Codes 400s)
• Part 5 Equity (Topic Codes 500s)
• Part 6 Revenue (Topic Codes 600s)
• Part 7 Expenses (Topic Codes 700s)
• Part 8 Broad Transactions (Topic Codes 800s)
• Part 9 Other

Each chapter consists of the following parts:

1. Executive Summary.
2. Authoritative Accounting Literature.
3. Disclosure and Key Presentation Requirements.
4. Examples of Financial Statement Disclosures

 The GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual is current through FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-12, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220) — Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05.

CONTENTS:

Part I General Principles  
Part II Presentation
Part III Assets
Part IV Liabilities
Part V Equity
Part VI Revenue
Part VII Expenses
Part VIII Broad Transactions
Part IX Other
Accounting Resources on the Web  
Cross-Reference to Original Pronouncements    
Index  
CD-ROM Instructions  

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Available: April 2012

Designed to enhance learning and improve comprehension for students of federal tax. Clear and concise summaries along with hundreds of review questions and answers help students understand the complexities of today's tax laws. Designed as an extra aid for students using CCH's industry-leading tax textbooks, the Study Manual highlights and reinforces the key tax concepts presented in: CCH's Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics, CCH's Federal Taxation: Basic Principles and CCH's Principles of Business Taxation.

The CCH Federal Tax Study Manual provides students with an approach that combines self-study with programmed learning.  Throughout the Study Manual, main concepts are presented in a concise yet thorough fashion, allowing students to focus on and apply pertinent information. Chapter-by-chapter summaries and easy-to-read outlines highlight the in-depth textbook explanations. Objective questions and problems (with solutions provided) are structured to help students master, apply and later review materials presented in each chapter.


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• Principles of Business Taxation (2013) (U.S.)

 

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Designed to enhance learning and improve comprehension for students of federal tax. Clear and concise summaries along with hundreds of review questions and answers help students understand the complexities of today's tax laws. Designed as an extra aid for students using CCH's industry-leading tax textbooks, the Study Manual highlights and reinforces the key tax concepts presented in: CCH's Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics, CCH's Federal Taxation: Basic Principles and CCH's Principles of Business Taxation.

The CCH Federal Tax Study Manual provides students with an approach that combines self-study with programmed learning.  Throughout the Study Manual, main concepts are presented in a concise yet thorough fashion, allowing students to focus on and apply pertinent information. Chapter-by-chapter summaries and easy-to-read outlines highlight the in-depth textbook explanations. Objective questions and problems (with solutions provided) are structured to help students master, apply and later review materials presented in each chapter.

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Published: May 2012

Disastrous Decisions: The Human and Organisational Causes of the Gulf of Mexico Blowout is an essential reference for all work, health and safety professionals, directors, officers, managers, safety regulators and engineers.

Written by noted expert Professor Andrew Hopkins, this book takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. This event resulted in the loss of 11 lives in the explosions and fire, the sinking of the rig and untold damage to the environment and to the livelihood of Gulf residents.

It is important to know what people did, but even more important to know why they did it, so this book attempts to “get inside the heads” of decision-makers and understand how they themselves understood the situations they were in. It also seeks to discover what it was in their organisational environment that encouraged them to think and act as they did.

Hopkins provides a sophisticated analysis of the accident that first identifies a series of critical defences that failed and then goes on to explain why they failed.

 

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Author:  Bert L. Swain, CPA

Developed through 30 years of experience in auditing practice for clients in a broad spectrum of industries, the CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments provides literally hundreds of management comment examples for numerous situations that that are encountered by real firms working with real clients. Beginning with an example of the actual opening paragraph of a management letter, this compendium continues through all critical areas encountered during an audit and ends with suggested closing paragraphs so that even a first-time management letter preparer can produce a high-quality final product like a well-seasoned auditor.

All of the management comment letter text in the book is provided on a free companion CD-ROM in folders that correspond to the chapters in the book where the text appears.

• Opening for Letter
• Cash
• Investments
• Accounts Receivable
• Inventory
• Fixed Assets
• Sales, Invoicing, and Revenue
• Purchasing and Expenses
• Accounts Payable
• Payroll
• Taxes
• Insurance Coverage
• Equity
• Grants
• Organizational/Governance Structure
• Administrative Issues
• Computer Systems
• Annual Audit and Client Cooperation
• Miscellaneous (e.g., Accrual Basis of Accounting, Restricted Funds Review Needed)
• SAS-99 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• Closing for Letter
• The Auditor's Communication with Those Charged with Governance

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Author: Bert L. Swain, CPA

Developed through 30 years of experience in auditing practice for clients in a broad spectrum of industries, the CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments provides literally hundreds of management comment examples for numerous situations that that are encountered by real firms working with real clients. Beginning with an example of the actual opening paragraph of a management letter, this compendium continues through all critical areas encountered during an audit and ends with suggested closing paragraphs so that even a first-time management letter preparer can produce a high-quality final product like a well-seasoned auditor.

All of the management comments letter text in the book is provided on a free companion CD-ROM in folders that correspond to the chapters in the book where the text appears.

• Opening for Letter
• Cash
• Investments
• Accounts Receivable
• Inventory
• Fixed Assets
• Sales, Invoicing, and Revenue
• Purchasing and Expenses
• Accounts Payable
• Payroll
• Taxes
• Insurance Coverage
• Equity
• Grants
• Organizational/Governance Structure
• Administrative Issues
• Computer Systems
• Annual Audit and Client Cooperation
• Miscellaneous (e.g., Accrual Basis of Accounting, Restricted Funds Review Needed)
• SAS-99 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• Closing for Letter
• The Auditor's Communication with Those Charged with Governance

312 pages

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Jae K. Shim, PhD,
Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA,
Nick Dauber, MS, CPA

A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controller’s quick answers to day-to-day questions.

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free, back-of-the book CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

- Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
- Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
- Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
- Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
- Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
- Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
- Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
- Internal Control: Computer Applications
- Checklist: Medium to Large Business
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- Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
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A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management.  Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give you answers to day-to-day questions.  

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

-    Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
-    Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
-    Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
-    Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
-    Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
-    Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
-    Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
-    Internal Control: Computer Applications
-    Checklist: Medium to Large Business
-    Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist — Medium to Large Business
-    Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report
-    Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
-    Variance Analysis: Labor Performance Report
-    Variance Analysis: Monthly Material Variance Report
-    Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Regional Sales Manager
-    Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Vice-President

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Available: June 2012

A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management.  Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give you answers to day-to-day questions. 

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

• Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
• Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
• Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
• Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
• Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
• Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
• Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
• Internal Control: Computer Applications
• Checklist: Medium to Large Business
• Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist — Medium to Large Business
• Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report
• Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
• Variance Analysis: Labor Performance Report
• Variance Analysis: Monthly Material Variance Report
• Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Regional Sales Manager
• Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Vice-President

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• Practical Guide to Corporate Taxation (U.S.)
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• U.S. Master Tax Guide®, 2012

 

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Published: November 2012

Canadian Securities Regulatory Requirements Applicable to Non-Resident Broker-Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers provides foreign securities and investment firms with essential information they need about Canadian securities regulatory licensing requirements.

Written with Canada’s top securities law experts at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, this resource serves as a comprehensive guide to foreign securities and investment firms seeking Canadian clients. In short, anyone who has clients conducting securities business in Canada will require this resource. Foreign investment managers will also require this information to act as an investment fund manager in Canada.

The book covers topics that should be addressed by non-residents before trading securities or providing investment advice to any person or company within Canada.

What's included:

• Dealer registration
• Adviser registration
• Investment fund manager registration
• Prospectus requirements

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Comprehensive how-to book that guides the reader on performing risk management-based audits. The book covers the Enterprise Risk Management Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO).

Following the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley and its strict corporate governance and accountability provisions, developing better risk management techniques is becoming more important in meeting higher audit committee expectations.

The first part of the Auditor's Risk Management Guide provides a broad understanding of corporate governance, ERM principles, and different auditing approaches. It also provides step-by-step instructions on how to execute the risk management-based audit, including frequently asked questions.

The second part of the book is devoted to detailed case studies that illustrate the risk management-based audit methodology and tools in different scenarios, beginning with a business risk assessment and working through common audit areas such as closing the books, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. Practice Pointers and Observations throughout provide additional commentary to assist the reader in understanding the methodology.

A free CD-ROM is included with the book provides electronic versions of the various work programs, checklists, and other tools in the book.

PART I: Risk Management-Based Auditing
1.      Overview of Enterprise Risk Management
2.      The Enterprise Risk Management Funnel
3.      Evolution of Auditing Approaches
4.      Strategy: The Beginning of the Journey
5.      Risk Assessment: Business Level
6.      Risk Assessment Qualification Techniques
7.      Entity-Level Control
8.      Risk Assessment: Process Level
9.      Process Design Phase
10.      Testing Phase
11.      Risk Infrastructure Assessment
12.      Action Planning Phase: The Real Value
13.      Monitoring and Follow-Up
14.      Auditing the ERM Process
15.      The Future of Risk Management-Based Auditing
16.     Frequently Asked Questions

PART II: Case Studies
17.  Case Study: Business Risk Assessment
18.  Case Study: Risk Management Infrastructure
19.  Case Study: Close the Books
20.  Case Study: Inventory
21.  Case Study: Procurement
22.  Case Study: Accounts Payable and Disbursements
23.  Case Study: Accounts Receivable and Collections
24.  Case Study: Quality Assurance
25.  Case Study: Payroll and Relat

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In our current economic environment lawyers, both in in-house and external counsel, need to apply stronger and more transparent legal project management practices.  To ensure legal matters are handled efficiently, and to meet the needs and expectations of the business, in-house counsel need to partner with the business, and with external counsel, to scope, plan, staff and monitor the work. This webinar will provide an introduction to the primary elements of legal project management and discuss the benefits LPM can produce for in-house counsel in working with the business, and when working with external counsel. However, implementing LPM often means changing the way we practice.  This is not easy. We will look at the issues and challenges in getting a team to engage in this new approach and provide strategies for success.  The panel will include both internal and external counsel and will discuss real implementation scenarios and issues.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the professional obligations to adopt legal project management practices;
• Understand the benefits of legal project management working within an organization and for an in-house team working with external counsel;
• Understand the basic components of legal project management;
• Understand the different approaches to preparing budgets and estimates; and
• Be aware of the issues and challenges in implementing LPM.

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The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Manual has been carefully compiled to give you everything you need to speed up the resolution of disputes in the following practice areas:

• Commercial Law
• Insurance Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• School Mediation
• Employment and Labour Law
• Landlord and Tenant Law

Key topics include:

• Dispute Resolution Spectrum
• Arbitration
• Mediation
• Mini-trials
• Negotiation
• Liability of ADR Neutrals
• Court-annexed ADR
• Preparing for and Attending Mediation
• ADR in the Workplace

The manual also provides checklists, legislation, rules of various arbitration and mediation organizations, selected international material, a directory of dispute resolution centers and services, as well as sample agreements, clauses and practical “how to” advice. Included with your subscription is the quarterly newsletter, ADR Forum.

Number of Volumes: 2

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The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

It comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
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• Information
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• Management of companies (holding companies)
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• Arts, entertainment and recreation
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