This Audit and Accounting Guide provides the latest information on accounting and auditing issues affecting depository and lending institutions. Updated with conforming changes as of May 1, 2008, it includes guidance in planning and performing audits under the risk assessment standards (SAS Nos. 104-111). This edition of the guide has also been conformed to reflect the Defining Professional Requirements standards (SAS No. 102 and SSAE No. 13). Furthermore, it provides additional guidance on the auditor’s responsibilities as set forth in SAS Nos. 112-114, including identifying and reporting internal control deficiencies, understanding the link between the auditor’s consideration of fraud and the auditor’s assessment of risk, dating of the management representation letter, and the auditor’s communications with those charged with governance.
The guide summarizes applicable requirements and practices, and delivers "how-to" advice for handling audit and accounting issues common to depository and lending institutions. It includes a discussion of the relevant financial statement considerations for depository and lending institutions. Included in the appendices is a listing of FDI Act Reporting Requirements. The guide covers the following new accounting pronouncements:
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Purpose and Applicability
This AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide has been prepared to assist financial institutions in preparing financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and to assist independent accountants in reporting on financial statements (and, as discussed in appendix A, other written management assertions) of those entities.
Chapters of the guide are generally organized by financial statement line item into four sections:
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