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Accounting firms offer a wide range of professional services to their clients, including audit, review, other assurance, and related services. These services are regulated, with many jurisdictions requiring compliance with international standards or national requirements that have been based on international ones. High-quality international standards increase the comparability, consistency, clarity, credibility, and transparency of financial information. And, high-quality financial information, in turn, increases the stability of the global financial infrastructure. Read More
ISRS 4410: The Standard for Today’s Compilation Engagements
by Phil Cowperthwaite, Former Member, IFAC SMP Committee | January 22, 2015 | 1 
With the growing demand for non-assurance services, compilation engagements conducted in compliance with the revised International Standard on Related Services (ISRS) 4410 provide new opportunities for professional accountants in practice and their clients. Read More
RecommendCommunication Is Vital to the Performance of SME Audits
by Katharine Bagshaw, Member, IFAC Small and Medium Practices Committee | November 11, 2014 | 2
Identifying who is charged with governance, and ensuring appropriate communication and documentation, are vital to the success of smaller entity audits. Read More
Growing Your Practice: Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements
by Dawn McGeachy, IFAC SMP Committee Member & Chair of the Implementation Guidance Task Force and Christopher Arnold, Technical Manager, SME & SMP Affairs, IFAC | October 28, 2014 | 1
Recognizing that agreed-upon procedures engagements have the potential to be an attractive and fast-growing service offering to SMEs, the IFAC SMP Committee is interested in how these engagements are being performed under ISRS 4400, Engagements to Perform Agreed-Upon Procedures Regarding Financial Information. Read More
Why Review Engagements Might Be a Perfect Fit for Your Small Business Clients
by Phil Cowperthwaite, Member, IFAC SMP Committee | October 17, 2014 | 4
Review engagements provide a limited form of assurance on historical financial statements and may be a cost effective and value-adding alternative when an audit is not required. Read More
Quick and Accurate Data Extraction Enabled by New AICPA Standards
by Kristine Hasenstab, Director, PwC US, and a CPA in Georgia and Eric E. Cohen, XBRL Global Technical Leader, PwC US, and a CPA in New York | September 29, 2014 | 
A new series of standards from the American Institute of CPAs for organizing general ledger and sub-ledger data may reduce the effort involved in finding, preparing, and sharing evidentiary data. Read More
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