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This course informs the reader of the various changes made to the compilation and review standards by the AICPA’s Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC), and addresses practice issues related to compilation and review engagements.
Included in this course is an overview of SSARS No. 21, as amended by SSARS No. 23, Omnibus
Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services- 2016. The course addresses the three
types of engagements that can be performed under the SSARSs: a preparation of financial statements
engagement, a compilation engagement, and a review engagement. The course also addresses SSARS No. 22, Compilation of Pro Forma Financial Information.
The course also includes practice issues in compilation and review engagements. Topics include an accountant’s responsibility for fraud, internal control and going concern, representation letters for review engagements, personal financial statements, tax-basis financial statements, legends on financial statements, an accountant’s liability in compilation and review engagements, saving time in engagements, and more |
Course Info:
- Course #: 2045E
- Delivery: Self-Study
- CPE Hours: 20
- Course Level: Basic
- Prerequisites: None
- Advanced Preparation: None
- NASBA Area of Study: Accounting
- Total Pages: 631
- Questions: 100
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Course Objectives
- To identify some of the changes in SSARS No. 21, as amended by SSARS No. 23, that are and are not carried over from auditing standards
- To recognize engagement types that are and are not part of SSARS No. 21
- To recall whether the preparation of financial statements standard is an attest or nonattest service
- To recall what must happen for an accountant to perform a preparation of financial statements engagement
- To recall whether a preparation engagement under AR-C 70 is subject to peer review
- To identify whether a report is required in a preparation of financial statements engagement under AR-C 70
- To recognize what the reporting requirements are, if any, when a “no assurance” legend is omitted from prepared financial statements under the AR-C 70 standards
- To identify where to disclose GAAP departures in a preparation of financial statements engagement
- To recall whether a preparation engagement under AR-C 70 is subject to peer review
- To identify whether a report is required in a preparation of financial statements engagement under AR-C 70
- To recognize what the reporting requirements are, if any, when a “no assurance” legend is omitted from prepared financial statements under the AR-C 70 standards
- To identify where to disclose GAAP departures in a preparation of financial statements engagement
- To recognize whether an accountant and his or her client must sign an engagement letter for a preparation of financial statements engagement under AR-C 70
- To recall the objective of a compilation engagement under AR-C 80 of SSARS No. 21
- To identify how an accountant should report on a disclaimer of supplementary information in a compilation engagement
- To identify requirements to be satisfied to perform a review engagement under AR-C 90
- To identify evidence an accountant should obtain to demonstrate that financial statements reconcile with accounting records
- To recognize an appropriate title that can be used for a review report under SSARS No. 21
- To identify the order in which certain report paragraphs should be placed in the SSARS No. 21 review report
- To recall some of the items that should and should not be documented in a review engagement
- To identify the reporting options for controllers who seek to issue financial statements
- To recognize the accountant’s responsibility for reporting fraud in compilation and review engagements
- To identify the period of time that defines “reasonable period of time” in going concern
- To identify factors that may or may not suggest there is a potential going concern problem in a compilation or review engagement
- To recognize the threshold to evaluate an Altman Z Score
- To identify an example of a deferred M-1 that is eliminated by tax-basis financial statements
- To recognize some of the general rules for tax-basis financial statements
- To identify the options available to report on supplementary information in a compilation or review engagement
- To recognize the general disclosure rules when issuing a compilation report on a specified element
- To identify when a management representation letter is required and some general rules pertaining to such letters
- To identify a prescribed form and the options for reporting on personal financial statements
- To recognize some of the recurring deficiencies noted in peer reviews
- To identify examples of simpler reporting options to full GAAP financial statements
- To identify provisions to incorporate into engagement letters to protect the accountant against liability claims
- To recognize the general rules to maintain independence when an accountant performs non-attest services for an attest client
- To identify when independence is impaired in certain situations in which an accountant performs non-attest services for an attest client
- To recognize the privity standard as it relates to the accountant’s liability to third parties
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