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Compilations & Reviews, with CD (2009-2010)

Compilations & Reviews, with CD (2009-2010)

Author: Russell Madray
Publisher: CCH U.S.
ISBN: 9780808020868
Published In: September 2009
Format: Paperback , 1064 pages
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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Compilations & 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 & 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. It comes with a free companion CD-ROM that contains all the practice aids contained in the book--and more. The files on the CD-ROM can be modified by practitioners to suit their needs. The book also includes a cross-reference to the original pronouncements and a detailed topical index.

Compilations & Reviews meets accounting industry standards overseen by the peer review system and contains a document covering the peer review of this book.

The 2009-2010 Edition incorporates the guidance from SQCS-7 and includes discussions of SSARS-15, SSARS-16, and SSARS-17. The 2009-2010 Edition also expands the discussion of independence issues related to compilations and reviews and provides additional examples for management representations to be obtained in a review engagement.

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

J. Russell Madray is president of The Madray Group, Inc., which specializes in knowledge transfer. Through a combination of technical writing, training, and targeted consulting, The Madray Group helps businesses, accounting firms, and other organizations understand and implement technical accounting and auditing issues.

Mr. Madray has more than 17 years of professional experience, including 10 years in public practice. He also serves as a senior lecturer at Clemson University’s School of Accountancy and Legal Studies. He is the author of numerous publications and articles on accounting and auditing topics, including many of the AICPA's Audit Risk Alert series. In addition, he speaks to hundreds of groups each year on accounting and auditing topics and has made presentations in more than 40 states.

Mr. Madray is a certified public accountant, a certified internal auditor, a certified management accountant, and a certified financial manager. He is a past member of the AICPA's Accounting and Review Services Committee and a current member of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Association of CPAs.

Mr. Madray earned both a B.S. in Accounting and a Master of Professional Accountancy from Clemson University.