Accounting and Auditing Update (PPC)

What Is a Significant Audit Area and Why Is It Important?

When performing an audit, auditors are required to determine the client’s significant classes of transactions, account balances, and disclosures. Using the PPC approach, as outlined in our various audit guides, such as PPC’s Guide to Nonpublic Companies, we use the term significant audit area interchangeably with significant class of transactions, account balance, or disclosure. What Makes an Audit …

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Regulators Indicate Areas of Inspection Focus to Ensure Quality in Audits

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) have recently announced their areas of focus for upcoming inspections and supervisory reviews of audit engagements. The PCAOB regulates audits of public companies and SEC-registered brokers and dealers. The FRC regulates auditors, accountants, and actuaries and sets the UK’s Corporate Governance …

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How the Newly Clarified Peer Review Standards Impact Firms

You might recall that the AICPA issued clarified peer review standards in February 2022. These standards, Standards for Performing and Reporting on Peer Reviews, were effective for peer reviews commencing on or after May 1, 2022. This newly clarified guidance replaced and restructured all previously existing peer review guidance. The standards were developed to make peer …

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Accounting Firm IT Strategy in the Cloud

Is your firm’s IT strategy positioning you for success? Today’s rapidly evolving advancements in artificial intelligence, accounting technology stacks, and remote IT architecture, as well as escalating security concerns, have created a significantly different IT environment than when most of us initially setup our firms’ IT infrastructure. Add to that, the reality that there is …

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New ASU Adds Selected SEC Disclosures to Codification

ASU 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements: Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative, was issued in October 2023. Why Was the ASU Issued? In 2018, the SEC issued Release No. 33-10532, Disclosure Update and Simplification, which contained certain disclosure requirements that overlap with U.S. GAAP, but require additional information. Because of this overlap, these …

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