Audit Procedures, by George Georgiades

Audit Procedures provides practitioners with the most conservative and cost-effective approach for conducting high-quality audit reviews and compilations of nonpublic commercial entities. Practical discussions of the day-to-day management of audit engagements are included in an easy-to-understand format. Valuable advice, coverage of procedures, and helpful practice aids allow you to put official pronouncements into action immediately.

To simplify your research, checklists, questionnaires, workpapers, sample correspondence, and sample auditor's reports are provided, taking you through an engagement, from the initial evaluation of a client to the issuance of the auditor's report. Also featured throughout Audit Procedures are efficient, cost-saving measures. PCAOB's Auditing Standards are also discussed.

Audit Procedures comes with a free, companion CD-ROM that contains audit programs, correspondence and confirmation letters, practice aids, forms, checklists, Excel workpapers, and auditor's reports. The files on the CD-ROM can be used as templates and edited to suit your particular needs.

A cross-reference to the original pronouncements and a detailed topical index, both designed to locate needed information quickly, are also included.

Compilations & Reviews, by J. Russell Madray

Compilations & Reviews provides a fundamental, real-world approach for conducting the highest quality audit reviews and compilations. Designed to help you enhance the quality of your practice, this reference reduces the technical language of official pronouncements to easy-to-read, easy-to-understand advice and procedures.

Compilations & Reviews includes an overview and identification of the professional responsibilities that arise when a CPA accepts an audit, reviews and compilations discusses and illustrates the procedures that need to be performed, describes the preparation of the CPA's engagement report, discusses the "management-use only compilation," and addresses special engagements, such as the OCBOA-based financial statements and partnership financial statements. Other topics are also included, ranging from financial forecasts and projections to attestation standards for review engagements that do not involve financial statements.

CPA's Guide to Effective Engagement Letters: Implementing Successful Loss Prevention Practices, by Ron Klein

CPA's Guide to Effective Engagement Letters: Implementing Successful Loss Prevention Practices provides you with everything you need to compose effective engagement letters. It is designed as a practical, hands-on tool that can sit on the auditor's desk for easy access.

The Guide is composed primarily of annotated parts of an engagement letter, that can be pieced together to create an entire engagement letter, and actual letters you can use for your own purposes.

To simplify your research, the Guide is comprised of eight sections: Financial Statements, Tax Preparation and Planning, General Accounting, Other Engagements, Other Letters, Internal Controls, Record Retention and Destruction Policy, and Disengaging.

NOTE: Beginning in 2006, we are removing the “Miller” names from all titles. However, these new editions continue to provide you with new, authoritative content and expert insight, in addition to the familiar structure and ease-of-use that you’ve come to expect from our line of accounting and engagement products.