State and Local Governmental Developments – Audit Risk Alert

Find out about important issues affecting state and local governments and how current developments affect auditing in this industry. This Audit Risk Alert focuses on emerging practice issues, such as recent changes in the municipal securities market, and current economic, accounting and auditing developments and how these areas affect state and local governments.

New accounting and auditing guidance that are particularly significant to this alert and covered in just the right amount of detail include:

• GASB Statement No. 66, Technical Corrections—2012—an amendment of GASB Statements No. 10 and No. 62
• GASB Statement No. 65, Items Previously Reported as Assets and Liabilities
• GASB Statement No. 64, Derivative Instruments: Application of Hedge Accounting Termination Provisions —an amendment of GASB Statement No. 53
• GASB Statement No. 63, Financial Reporting of Deferred Outflows of Resources, Deferred Inflows of Resources, and Net Position

This alert also includes information on emerging issues such as:

• Implementing New Requirements for Supplementary Information and Other Information in Audits of State and Local Governments
• Special Purpose Frameworks
• Group Audits
• Disclosure in Official Statements Regarding an Issuer's Pension Funding Obligations
• New and Revised Requirements Under GASB Statement No. 61, The Financial Reporting Entity: Omnibus
• Determining the Appropriate Reporting Framework.

To comply with the professional standards, auditors need to understand the industry, regulatory, and other external factors that affect the entity and its environment. This helps you identify those factors and how they may be a source of risk. You'll not only find targeted discussion of new developments and considerations, but also a look at what's in the pipeline that may affect your engagements.

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