Reports following a pooling of interests : (supersedes Statement on auditing procedure no. 40);

              STATEMENT ON AUDITING PROCEDURE
APRIL 1971
Reports Following a Pooling of Interests
(Supersedes Statement on Auditing Procedure No. 40)*
1. When companies have merged or combined in accordance with the accounting concept known as a "pooling of interests," appropriate effect of the pooling should be given in the presenta-tion of financial position, results of operations and other historical financial data of the continuing business for the year in which the combination is consummated and, in comparative financial state-ments, for years prior to the year of pooling, as described in Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 16, "Business Com-binations." If prior year financial statements, presented in com-parison with current year financial statements, are not restated to give appropriate recognition to a pooling of interests, the com-parative financial statements are not presented on a consistent basis. In this case, the inconsistency arises not from a change in the application of an accounting principle in the current year, but from the lack of such application to prior years. Such incon-sistency would require a qualification in the independent auditor's report. In addition, failure to give appropriate recognition to the pooling in comparative financial statements is a departure from an
'Statement on Auditing Procedure No. 40 superseded paragraphs 35-36 of Chapter 8 of Statement on Auditing Procedure No. 33, which remain superseded by this Statement.
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