GAAS Guide, with CD (2012)

Author: Joseph V. Carcello; Mark S. Beasley
Publisher: CCH U.S.
ISBN: 9780808026365
Published In: September 2011
Format: Paperback + CD-ROM , 1192 pages
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The GAAS Guide describes today's engagement standards, practices, and procedures in use today, including Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs), Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs), and Statements on Standards on Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs) and their relationship to the PCAOB's standards. The latest interpretations of all the standards are also included. The GAAS Guide is now available in an eBook format which you can download to your computer instantly.

The book is organized to follow the arrangement of the AICPA's Professional Standards. Each section begins with a list of authoritative pronouncements and an Overview. A Promulgated Procedures Checklist identifies the essential professional responsibilities that must be satisfied in each phase of an engagement followed by an Analysis and Application of Reporting Standards, which explains how each specific promulgated procedure should be applied. Practitioner's Aids provide additional guidance on how to apply the promulgated standards to specific engagements.

Throughout the book Risk Assessment Points, Engagement Strategies, Planning Aid Reminders, and Observations provide helpful, practical tips. Fraud Pointers alert practitioners to issues affecting auditor responsibility for fraud and fraud risks throughout the audit engagement. To keep CPAs abreast of potential changes affecting AICPA professional standards, this edition contains new overviews of outstanding exposure drafts, which highlight key elements of possible changes to existing professional standards.

The sample letters, reports, and checklists found in the text are included on a CD-ROM that accompanies the book and can be printed and customized to meet all of your auditing needs.

The GAAS Guide meets accounting industry standards as overseen by the AICPA's peer review system (the book reproduces a letter by the book's peer reviewer).

AU 100: Introduction
AU 200: General Standards
AU 300: Standards of Field Work
AU 400: First, Second, and Third Standards of Reporting
AU 500: Fourth Standard of Reporting
AU 600: Other Types of Reports
AU 700: Special Topics
AU 800: Compliance Auditing
AU 900: Special Reports of the Committee on Auditing Procedure
AT Section: Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements
AR Section: Statements on Standards for accounting and Review services

Joseph V. Carcello, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, CIA, is a William B. Stokely Distinguished Scholar and a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Carcello has published more than 40 articles in academic and professional journals. He is the co-author of a funded research study by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission titled Fraudulent Financial Reporting: 1987-1997, An Analysis of U.S. Public Companies. Dr. Carcello also is the co-author of a research monograph published by the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board titled Fraud-Related SEC Enforcement Actions Against Auditors: 1987-1997.

Dr. Carcello has taught continuing professional education courses for two of the Big 4 accounting firms, the AICPA, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the Tennessee and Florida Societies of CPAs. He was a member of the Independence Standards Board’s Task Force on Accepting Employment with an Audit Client. Dr. Carcello currently serves on the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Board of Research Advisors.
Mark S. Beasley is the Deloitte Professor of Enterprise Risk Management and Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, N.C., where he teaches auditing courses in the undergraduate and masters programs. He currently serves as a member of the COSO Board. Dr. Beasley received a BS in accounting from Auburn University and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in North Carolina and has worked in public accounting, where he was an Audit Manager with Ernst & Young. Dr. Beasley also worked as a Technical Manager with the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Division, in New York City. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Dr. Beasley also serves as Director of North Carolina State University’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative, which provides thought leadership on enterprise risk management and its integration with strategy planning and governance.

He recently served on COSO’s Enterprise Risk Management project Advisory Council and the AICPA’s Antifraud Programs and Controls Task Force. He has previously served on Auditing Standards Board task forces, including the SAS No. 99 Fraud Task Force. Dr. Beasley is the co-author of several continuing education courses, an auditing textbook, and an auditing casebook.