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Author: CCH Editorial Staff
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Published: 2016-09-25
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ISBN-13: 9780808043973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccounting standards are always changing. Never has this observation been more true than now. The accounting profession understands the need for consistency and transparency and new standards are constantly evolving to improve financial reporting and ensure reliable financial information.
Author: Melisa F. Galasso
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 111974721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBe prepared for change by ensuring that you are current in accounting and auditing developments affecting government. Learn the latest accounting and auditing developments affecting governments by covering these hot topics: Risk assessment Documentation Leases Yellow Book Major program determination New GASB pronouncements
Author: Steven M. Bragg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1118417801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKACCOUNTING BEST PRACTICES Seventh Edition Today's accounting staffs are called on to work magic: process transactions, write reports, improve efficiency, create new processes—all at the lowest possible cost, using an ever-shrinking proportion of total corporate expenses. Sound impossible? Not if your staff is using the best practices for accounting. Fully updated in a new edition, Accounting Best Practices, Seventh Edition draws from renowned accounting leader Steven Bragg's extensive experience in successfully developing, operating, and consulting various accounting departments. This invaluable resource has the at-your-fingertips information you need, whether you've been searching for ways to cut costs in your accounting department, or just want to offer more services without the added expense. The best practices featured in this excellent step-by-step manual constitute need-to-know information concerning the most advanced techniques and strategies for increasing productivity, reducing costs, and monitoring existing accounting systems. This new edition boasts over 400 best practices, with fifty new to this edition in the areas of taxation, finance, collections, general ledger, accounts payable, and billing. Now featuring a corresponding seven-minute podcast for each chapter found on the book's companion website, Accounting Best Practices is the perfect, do-it-yourself book for the manager who wants to significantly boost their accounting department.
Author: CH Editorial Staff
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Published: 2017-11-13
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ISBN-13: 9780808046288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccounting standards are always changing. Never has this observation been more true than now. The accounting profession understands the need for consistency and transparency and new standards are constantly evolving to improve financial reporting and ensure reliable financial information. CCH's Top Accounting Issues for 2017 Course helps CPAs stay abreast of the most significant new standards and important projects. It does so by identifying the significant events of the past year that have developed into hot issues and reviewing the opportunities and pitfalls presented by the changes. The topics included in the Top Accounting Issues for 2017 were selected because of their impact on financial reporting and because of the role they play in understanding the accounting landscape in the year ahead.Top Accounting Issues for 2017 reassures the accountant that he or she is not missing out on developing accounting issues -- or is not susceptible to being caught unaware by a brewing controversy. It's the top quality accounting review and analysis that every practitioner needs to keep a step ahead.Practitioners may also earn CPE credit by successfully completing and submitting the Final Exam answer sheets for grading. (An additional fee applies for each answer sheet that is submitted for CPE grading and administration.) NOTE: Because continuing education requirements vary from state to state and among different licensing agencies, practitioners should always check with their licensing boards and governing agencies for specific information on their CPE requirements and to verify the applicability of this Course for meeting their requirements.
Author: Jae K. Shim
Publisher: Global Professional Publishing Limited
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906403621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book also covers Management's Antifraud Programs and Controls and the risk factors included in SAS No. 99. A major section then deals with forensic accounting. --
Author: Allison J. Harrell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-04-09
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 111951245X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you perform engagements in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS) as presented in the Yellow Book? This book provides an excellent baseline of information for accountants to better understand governmental auditing foundations, ethics, general audit standards, financial audit standards, attestation engagement standards, and fieldwork and reporting standards for performance audits. It is essential that all auditors planning and conducting audits in accordance with GAGAS understand and discern these concepts and standards in executing their responsibilities. In addition to a chapter covering the key points in a Uniform Guidance compliance audit, this book also includes content from AICPA Guide Government Auditing Standards and Single Audits related to a Uniform Guidance compliance audit, including appendixes for example auditor's reports and sampling guidance. This book will prepare you to do the following: Identify the types of engagements that are performed under Government Auditing Standards. Recognize Yellow Book requirements related to independence, peer review, and more. Identify the additional requirements for performing a financial audit under GAGAS. Recognize the additional GAGAS reporting requirements for financial audits. Recall the requirements for performing attestation engagements and performance audits under the Yellow Book.
Author: Lynda Dennis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1119743079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a review of the top accounting and auditing issues faced by preparers of governmental and not-for-profit financial statements and their auditors. Key areas covered include: GASB 87, Leases; revenue recognition, including grants and contracts; risk assessment; and financial reporting. Key topics include: · Current GASB developments · Audit issues related to GASB developments · Recent GASB pronouncements and their impact on accounting and reporting · Top advice from the AICPA’s Technical Hotline and the GASB Technical Inquiry System
Author: Tom Klammer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-03-02
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 111950905X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisposed to numerous challenges and shortcomings, a cash flow statement is one of the most important financial statements for business. This book introduces the accountant to, and helps to boil down, the intricacies of the overall cash flow statement and its three major sections. Readers will review options for statement of cash flows preparation and presentation and methods to improve cash flow analysis. They will also explore the requirements of the statement of cash flows guidance and related standards, and learn how to make appropriate classifications of transactions and events. This book includes new changes resulting from FASB ASU No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230), Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments (a consensus of the Emerging Issues Task Force), and FASB ASU No. 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force). This book will help accounants to: Recall the fundamental cash flow reporting requirements. Recall how to prepare a statement of cash flows using both the direct and indirect method of presenting operating information. Identify when investing and financing cash flows can be reported net. Identify cash flow transactions as operating, investing, or financing. Indicate how to present and disclose significant transactions that have no direct cash flow effect. Recall how to report selected operating items such as interest, taxes, and receivables.
Author: Practitioners Publishing Co. Staff
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Published: 2005-12-01
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ISBN-13: 9780764628252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains extensive coverage of the tax issues faced by all types of contractors, including large and small contractors, homebuilders, and other specialty trades, provides you with the clear, concise guidance you need to expertly address your tax issues.
Author: AICPA
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1948306344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew standards for financial statement presentation and revenue recognition have created many not-for-profit financial reporting changes. Combine those with today's technology-centered environment and the ever-present scrutiny of exempt organizations by the IRS and watchdog and rating agencies, and accountants, auditors, and financial managers may wonder how they'll ever tackle all the associated risks. This alert takes discusses the important developments affecting not-for-profit entities in 2018, and the issues auditors may face. It's jam-packed with targeted discussions of current economic, accounting, and auditing issues affecting nonprofits, as well as changes on the horizon. Topics range from business environment issues like cybersecurity to accounting and auditing challenges like implementation of FASB's new financial statement standard (ASU No. 2016-14) and valuation of gifts-in-kind. This alert also covers legislative and regulatory issues like UBIT, debt-financed property rules, and tax reform provisions of interest to exempt organizations, as well as the new auditing standard on auditor involvement with exempt offering documents. Among other topics, this alert focuses on risks related to recent nonprofit industry trends, financial statement presentation changes, revenue recognition, and fair value issues. A discussion of tax reform provisions affecting exempt organizations is also included as well as information on emerging issues such as: Revenue recognition for grants and contracts Phase 2 of FASB's not-for-profit financial statement presentation project Changes to the auditor's report Cybersecurity Blockchain and other transformative technology Awareness of key trends affecting the nonprofit environment informs audit planning, risk management, strategic planning, and oversight, thereby promoting greater success and sustainability of not-for-profit entities.
