Nonprofit organizations -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Finance, public -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This article presents a condensed history of significant post 1900 developments in nonbusiness financial accounting practices and standards, and highlights some of the major issues in the recent increase in interest and activity in nonbusiness...
Income accounting -- History;Financial statements -- History
The origin of income smoothing in literature has been attributed to different authors in recent years. However, the attributions have been made based on research using a simple analysis of the term "income smoothing". This study considers the...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditing -- Statistical methods -- Standards -- United States;Sampling (Statistics)
Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items within an account balance or class of transactions for the purpose of evaluating some characteristic of the balance or class.1 This Statement provides...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Stocks -- United States -- Accounting;Securities -- United States -- Accounting
1. The services of independent certified public accountants include examination of financial statements and schedules contained in registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) under the Securities Act of 1933...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Securities -- United States -- Accounting
When an independent accountant's report is included in registration statements, proxy statements, or periodic reports filed under the federal securities statutes, the accountant's responsibility, generally, is in substance no different from that...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements, Interim -- Standards -- United States
This Statement provides guidance on the nature, timing, and extent of procedures to be applied by the independent accountant in conducting a review of interim financial information and on the reporting applicable to such engagements.
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States
An accountant may accept an engagement in which the scope is limited to applying to one or more specified elements, accounts, or items of a financial statement agreed-upon procedures that are not sufficient to enable him to express an opinion on...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Going concern (Accounting)
When the continued existence of an entity is imperiled, there is heightened concern about the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts and the amounts and classification of liabilities. This Statement provides guidance regarding...
