Audit and Accounting Manual

Developed exclusively for small-and medium size CPA practices, the Audit and Accounting Manual demonstrates useful techniques and procedures for audit engagements that you perform. This manual explains engagement steps from planning, to performing procedures, to issuing your reports.

Updated as of June 1, 2011, the manual includes:

• Guidance on internal controls
• Audit documentation guidelines
• Illustrative confirmation letters
• Illustrative engagement and representation letters
• Illustrative auditor’s reports
• Guidance on quality control and a full reprint of the AICPA’s Practice Aid, Establishing and Maintaining a System of Quality Control for a CPA Firm’s Accounting and Auditing Practice—Revised for the Issuance of Statement on Quality Control Standards No. 7, A Firm’s System of Quality Control
• And much more!

This manual offers relevant guidance contained in applicable standards and other technical sources, including technical guidance and illustrative auditor’s reports contained in:

• Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16,Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization.
• Revisions made to Interpretation No. 101, “Interpretations of Rule 101” under Rule 101 regarding covered members formerly associated with an attest client and participation of a covered member’s immediate family in an employer’s benefit plan.
• Interpretation No. 101-17, “Network Firms,” under Rule 101, Independence.
• Expanded illustrative service auditor’s reports regarding reporting on controls at a service organization relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, and confidentiality.

As an added feature, the Audit and Accounting Manual includes all Audit Risk Alerts published by the AICPA, including Communicating Internal Control Related Matters in an Audit — Understanding SAS No. 115 — Audit Risk Alert. This particular alert is an important tool for helping auditors of financial statements identify differences between SAS No. 112 and SAS No. 115. The audit risk alerts update CPAs on recent practice issues and professional standards that affect industry specific engagements. The audit risk alerts also help plan and perform audits by identifying significant business risks that may result in the material misstatement of a client's financial statements.

Bonus! With your purchase of the Audit and Accounting Manual in paperback you will receive at no additional cost, The Clarity Project: Background and Resources. This helpful compendium address the background status and implications of the Clarity Project and the Auditing Standards Board’s new clarified standards. Auditors will need to make some adjustments to their practices as a result of the project, and this booklet provides information on how to start planning for these changes.