When you hear the term audit, you may immediately think of a team of IRS officers rummaging through your files looking for discrepancies and errors in your business's tax returns. However, financial ...

Audited financial statements are independent CPA evaluations costing thousands. They include balance sheets, cash flow, ...

IN CERTAIN INSTANCES CPAs SHOULD CONSIDER preparing and reporting on financial statements using an “other comprehensive basis of accounting” (OCBOA). Tax-basis and cash-basis, including ...

Every business keeps records of its operations and transactions, and accountants take this information to produce four basic financial statements: a profit and loss statement, balance sheet, statement ...

When it is time to bring in an external audit firm — perhaps because lenders, investors or a regulatory body triggered the need to audit your financial statements — preparation and responsiveness are ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, ...