CPAs Guide to Effective Engagement Letters provides the tools you need to compose effective engagement letters. It is intended as a practical hands-on device that can sit on your desk for ready access. The book is composed primarily of annotated parts of an engagement letter, which you can piece together to create an entire engagement letter, and actual letters you can customize for your own purposes. The powerful companion CD-ROM contains these same valuable paragraphs and letters. Throughout CPAs Guide to Effective Engagement Letters, a logical approach has been established in the sequencing of chapters to facilitate your composition of successful engagement letters. The book is made up of five sections: Financial Statements, Tax Preparation and Planning, General Accounting, and Other Engagements. Sections one through four include suggested working and sample letters that deal with their particular subjects. Within each section are subsections relating to more specific subject matter. The suggested wording in each subsection is designed to take you from the introduction of an engagement letter to the closing. Following the pages of suggested wording are the sample letters that pe

CPA's Guide to Effective Engagement Letters: Implementing Successful Loss Prevention Practices provides the information needed to compose effective engagement letters. The book is a practical, hands-on tool that can sit on the auditor's desk for easy access. The CPA's Guide is composed primarily of annotated parts of an engagement letter and full engagement letters that CPAs can tailor for his or her own purposes. The free CD-ROM that accompanies CPA's Guide to Effective Engagement Letters contains all the individual sections, the full text of all the letters in the book, and case studies illustrating the dos and don'ts of engagement letter use. The book comprises eight sections: 1. Financial Statements 2. Tax Preparation and Planning 3. General Accounting 4. Other Engagements 5. Other Letters 6. Internal Controls 7. Record Retention and Destruction Policy 8. Disengaging The book is formatted so that the left-hand column contains suggested engagement letter wording pertaining to a specific subject and the right-hand column offers commentary and important advice. The suggested wording the book has been compiled and edited with resources from CAMICO Services, Inc., a subsidiary of CAMICO Mutual Insurance Company, and the commentary, including pitfalls to avoid, is based on the experience of actual CPAs.

Developed through 20 years of experience in auditing practice for clients in a broad spectrum of industries and up-to-date through SAS-112, the CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments provides literally hundreds of management comment examples for numerous situations that that are encountered by real firms working with real clients. Beginning with an example of the actual opening paragraph of a management letter, this compendium continues through all critical areas encountered during an audit and ends with suggested closing paragraphs so that even a first-time management letter preparer can produce a high-quality final product like a well-seasoned auditor.

The Miller OCBOA Guide is the first comprehensive manual written for the growing number of practitioners and small businesses who need understandable guidance when preparing and reporting on OCBOA financial statements.

The GAAS Guide describes the engagement standards, practices and procedures in use today--including Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs) and their Interpretations, Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs) and their Interpretations, and Statements on Standards on Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs) and their Interpretations and their relationship to the PCAOB's standards.

The primary objective of the GAAS Practice Manual is to provide a complete, quick and valuable reference source for the practitioner of the currently effective pronouncements of Statements on Auditing Standards, Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, Statements on Standards on Accounting and Review Services, and the new PCAOB Auditing Standards--and the interpretations of those standards.