Audit and Accounting

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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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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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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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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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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With PPC's book on trusts and estates, accountants can find answers to all the trusts and estates accounting and reporting questions they may have. Learn More

Properly accounting for income taxes in GAAP financial statements requires a thorough understanding of complex accounting and tax rules and regulations. PPC's Guide to Accounting for Income Taxes provides practical, how-to guidance on all aspects of accounting for income taxes under FASB ASC 740, Income Taxes. The Guide includes numerous illustrations and example calculations, as well as helpful practice aids, that will enable you to effectively and efficiently identify temporary differences, calculate current and deferred income taxes, and report and disclose income taxes in GAAP financial statements.

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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 Forecasts and Projections simplifies the complex rules that apply to engagements involving prospective financial information and provides you with comprehensive engagement, procedure, and reporting checklists to ensure you can efficiently and effectively perform your forecast or projection engagements. You’ll get expert guidance on all facets of engagements on prospective financial information, including accepting the client, selecting the level of service, gathering the facts, developing assumptions, performing the procedures, preparing the financial presentations, and issuing the report. 

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PPC's Guide to GAAP is the accounting professionals' one-stop guide to the Financial Accounting Standard Board's General Accepted Accounting Principles. Learn More

PPC’s Guide to Auditor’s Reports provides detailed guidance on the AICPA audit reporting standards and more than 275 audit report illustrations and drafting forms including reports modified for GAAP departures, scope limitations, going concern uncertainties, and numerous other situations. Choose and draft the proper audit report with confidence and get the guidance you need to explain it to your client. 

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PPC’s Guide to GAAS is the ultimate GAAS reference guide. It provides complete coverage of professional standards for audits, compilations, reviews, attestations, consulting, valuation services, quality control, and ethics. The Guide is more than a simple recitation of the standards; written in simple, easy-to-follow language, it includes practical considerations and critical insights that help you understand what the standards require and what they don't.

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PPC’s Guide to Quality Control provides a comprehensive approach for designing and implementing a quality control (QC)/quality management (QM) system that complies with all of the QC/QM standards and at the same time is practical and cost-effective for firms of all sizes.

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PPC’s Guide to Single Audits is your one source for all the rules, regulations, and guidelines for single audits of both governments and nonprofits. Performing single audits requires compliance with an array of complex regulatory and professional requirements. This Guide helps you comply with these requirements accurately and efficiently, thereby increasing your audit profits.

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Audits of HUD multifamily project owners require specialized guidance and tools to address their unique accounting and compliance audit requirements. PPC's Guide to HUD Audits provides the audit programs, checklists, confirmations, and auditor's reports you need to correctly perform these audits in an effective and efficient manner. Guidance and practice aids are provided for audits of for profit project owners in accordance with the HUD audit guide and for nonprofit project owners in accordance with OMB Circular A-133.

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PPC's Guide to Cash, Tax, and Other Bases of Accounting gives you clear guidance on other comprehensive basis of accounting financial statements. The Guide not only explains the unique measurement and disclosure requirements of each basis of accounting, but the reporting options as well. It comes with both cash basis and tax basis disclosure checklists, example financial statements that cover a variety of entity types, note disclosures, and tailored compilation and review practice aids.

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Preparing complete and accurate financial statements and related notes can be very challenging. PPC's Guide to Preparing Financial Statements is a financial statement preparers' manual tailored especially for preparers of financial statements for nonpublic companies. The Guide takes you from the trial balance to the completed financial statements (including notes) in statement-by-statement, account-by-account sequence, regardless of whether the statements are audited, reviewed, compiled, or prepared by accountants in industry.

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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 guidance, illustrations, and practice aids, 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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Properly applied audit risk assessment procedures provide the foundation for an effective and efficient audit engagement. PPC's Guide to Audit Risk Assessment instructs you in how to identify, consider, and respond to the risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, allowing you to focus your audit time in the areas with the most significant risks, while limiting the time you spend on other areas. The Guide explains the risk assessment process and provides a complete package of implementation and other practical tools.

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PPC's Guide to Homeowners' Associations and Other Common Interest Realty Associations is the most comprehensive Guide ever written about homeowners' associations, condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and time-share developments. The Guide covers the unique accounting, auditing, and reporting issues for common interest realty associations (CIRAs) and gives you everything you need to perform audit, compilation, and review engagements both effectively and profitably.

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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 Nonprofit Financial Statement Illustrations and Trends offers more than 20 current financial statements and illustrative notes for various types and sizes of nonprofit organizations. Get consistency in style, format, and technical quality of financial statements with this essential guide. The Guide also includes a Trends Survey to provide insight on various reporting alternatives available to nonprofit organizations and discuss common errors noted during the survey.

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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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