PPC's Guide to Preparing Nonprofit Financial Statements will help you skillfully prepare nonprofit financial statements in accordance with the latest GAAP or OCBOA requirements. Following the Guide can also provide consistency in style, format, and technical quality of the financial statements.
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Get a streamlined approach for firms that provide only compilation and review services to establish and maintain a quality control system and pass peer review with PPC's Guide to Quality Control - Compilation and Review.
The Guide is designed to assist compilation and review firms in developing, implementing, and maintaining a system of quality control that incorporates the requirements of SQCS 8 and satisfies AICPA peer review requirements in the most efficient way possible.
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The challenge of interpreting and implementing the authoritative literature comprising nonprofit GAAP is greater today than at any time in recent history. PPC's Guide to Nonprofit GAAP helps you meet that challenge. The format of our Guide helps you to locate answers quickly and easily. It covers all of the authoritative literature that applies to nonprofit organizations and provides references to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. You'll also get a specialized disclosure checklist tailored just for nonprofit organizations.
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PPC's Nonprofit Financial and Accounting Manual provides you with comprehensive, how-to guidance on performing the accounting and recordkeeping function for a nonprofit organization. It is written in plain language and focuses on areas of particular interest to the nonprofit accountant. The Manual includes step-by-step instructions and flow charts, practical examples, questionnaires, checklists, and sample forms to use.
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PPC's Guide to Write-Up Services is the most comprehensive resource available on how to provide profitable bookkeeping and payroll services. The practical "how to" guidance, illustrations, practice aids, and illustrative IRS forms enable CPAs, staff accountants, paraprofessionals, and accountants in industry to efficiently provide write-up services. The Guide explains how to select software, accept clients, process data, and perform payroll and write-up services efficiently and while meeting professional standards.
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PPC's Guide to Religious Organizations is loaded with practical guidance, real life examples, and timesaving checklists and practice aids to give you the knowledge you need to confidently and competently address all the accounting, financial reporting, and tax issues affecting religious organizations. The Guide helps you understand unique tax issues including ministers’ taxes, housing allowances, and discretionary funds; unrelated business income; political activities and lobbying; and intermediate sanctions. The Guide explains special accounting considerations such as accounting for faith promises, furloughs and sabbaticals, and contributed services. It also provides you with sample religious organization financial statements, and shows you how to strengthen internal controls and help prevent fraud.
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Nonprofit organizations may require compilations, reviews, audits, or Single Audits. PPC's Guide to Audits of Nonprofit Organizations includes tailored practice aids to help you perform audits and engagements for your nonprofit clients in accordance with professional standards. The Guide contains report examples and multiple sets of audit programs including a set of initial audit programs, a core set appropriate for any audit engagement, and a set appropriate for many small organization audits.
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PPC's Guide to Restaurants and Bars is written by a leading combination of internal and external authors with extensive expertise and decades of practice experience. There is no other source available on the market that provides the practical, yet authoritative, guidance applicable to both CPAs and restaurateurs found in this Guide.
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PPC's Guide to Audits of Nonpublic Companies provides the industry leading audit approach for nonpublic commercial entities that is thorough, yet practical; effective, yet efficient. It includes the planning tools you need to identify risks and helps you select appropriate audit procedures to respond to those risks. The Guide provides an approach that is easily implemented, whether you have a large audit practice or perform only a few audits. We've updated for the Clarified Auditing Standards and identified changes (or in some cases, included dual guidance) so you can easily perform your June 30 and September 30 audits in compliance with existing standards and your December 31 audits in compliance with the clarified standards.
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Local government audits require specialized guidance and tools to address their unique audit and accounting requirements. PPC’s Guide to Audits of Local Governments provides the audit programs, checklists, confirmations, and auditor’s reports you need to correctly perform these audits in an effective and efficient manner, from regular GAAS audits to Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book) Audits to Single Audits. This Guide provides the most comprehensive set of audit materials available on the market, representing the gold standard for audits of local governments.
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PPC's Guide to Real Estate provides comprehensive real estate accounting and tax guidance in a single, easy-to-use source. The Guide provides the information and tools you need to address the accounting and tax aspects of acquiring, developing, building, leasing, and selling real estate.
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PPC’s Guide to Quality Control provides the overarching policies and procedures that the quality control checklists, programs, and practice aids in PPC’s Audit and Accounting Guides support. This Guide provides a comprehensive approach for designing and implementing a quality control system that complies with all of the quality control standards and at the same time is practical and cost-effective for firms of all sizes.
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One of the best ways to add value to your audit engagements is to provide meaningful management letter comments, and PPC's Guide to Management Letter Comments: Operations and Controls will help you identify and provide such comments in an efficient way. The Guide provides over 1,000 illustrative comments in the areas where most management comments are developed - operations and controls. The comments are organized to help you find just the right one.
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With PPC's Governmental Financial Statement Illustrations and Trends, you have over 700 pages of financial statements at your fingertips - large, medium, and small cities, school districts, and special purpose governments. These real-life financial statements show you what options and formats others are selecting for their financial statement presentations as well as how they are implementing new GASB standards, which will save you time in preparing your own. This Guide also includes a chapter on trends and common errors in governmental financial statements.
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Physicians and other health care professionals often need a wide variety of professional services from their trusted CPA. PPC's Guide to Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals covers a wide range of profitable services, including write-up, financial planning, federal income tax planning, retirement plans, and payroll taxes. It also addresses Medicare laws and regulations, the fraud and abuse laws, physician compensation arrangements and how to divide the profits of the practice, medical office management, and billing considerations.
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PPC's Guide to Nontraditional Engagements addresses situations where a client asks you to perform a service other than the traditional compilation, review, or audit of financial statements. It provides extensive guidance and a complete set of practice aids for many types of engagements, including agreed upon procedures engagements, internal control engagements, examinations and reviews, compliance with terms of a lease or other contract, engagements to report on specified elements, and many more.
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The most reliable guide available on its subject, Federal Taxation of Income, Estates & Gifts is the industry-leading treatise for professionals seeking informed answers to complex tax questions.
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The GAAP Practice Manual is a comprehensive, authoritative reference for U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). It is a complete source for analyses of the FASB Codification, which is the single authoritative foundation of U.S. GAAP. Each Section of the Manual is divided into the following parts: applicable authoritative FASB Codification sections; overview; measurement principles; disclosure requirements; disclosure examples; and related topics.
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The AICPA’s clarified auditing standards are now effective for all audit engagements, and those standards include more than just new terminology - they include new requirements. PPC’s Guide to the Clarified Auditing Standards provides a roadmap to the new standards with detailed guidance and practical answers to help you sort out the significant changes that will affect your audit practice. The Guide explains each audit requirement and highlights differences from the previous standards.
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AU-C 265, Communicating Internal Control Related Matters Identified in an Audit, establishes requirements for making internal control communications to your clients. PPC's Guide to Internal Control Communications gives you everything you need to comply with those requirements when communicating internal control deficiencies identified during your audit engagements. The Guide includes detailed discussions and analysis of the authoritative standards, practice aids, case studies with illustrative documentation, and hundreds of illustrative internal control comments categorized by audit area or internal control component to help you find just the right one.
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As a result of increased scrutiny and the heightened emphasis on internal control, practitioners are providing more internal control-related services to their clients than ever before. PPC's Guide to Internal Control and Fraud Prevention contains the essential tools you need to assist clients in fulfilling their responsibility to design and implement programs and controls to prevent, deter, and detect fraud. The Guide covers both performing an evaluation of a nonpublic company's system of internal control and assisting with a public company client's Sarbanes-Oxley internal control assessment.
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Dealership clients may require compilation, review, audit, tax, or consulting services. PPC's Guide to Dealerships contains detailed discussions about the unique operating environment of dealerships to assist in understanding your clients and their needs. The Guide includes tailored practice aids and illustrative financial statements to help you perform all these engagements for your dealership clients while also complying with professional standards.
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Focuses on issues relevant to small and midsize nonpublic entities.
PPC's Guide to Related Parties (Including Variable Interest Entities) addresses issues commonly associated with accounting for and disclosing related-party transactions, specifically focusing on accounting for variable interests in variable interest entities (VIEs).
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QuickBooks is the best-selling management and accounting software for small businesses. PPC's QuickBooks Solutions: A Problem-solving Guide for Accounting Professionals assists you in working with your clients who use QuickBooks software. The Guide includes in-depth “how to” guidance and trouble-shooting tips for using QuickBooks, practice aids to help you through performing common QuickBooks tasks, marketing tips, and guidance on your reporting responsibilities when preparing QuickBooks financial statements.
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