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Codification of Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services

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This essential reference is fully updated as of January 2009 and will help you find the exact information you need. All Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) and related interpretations currently in effect have been organized by subject and fully indexed in this companion reference.

This new 2009 edition has been updated with the following:

  • SSARS No. 18, Applicability of Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services
  • Interpretation No. 30, "Considerations Related to Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance With International Financial Reporting Standards and Compilations and Reviews Performed in Accordance With International Standards," of AR section 100
  • Interpretation No. 31, "Preparation of Financial Statements for Use by an Entity's Auditors," of AR section 100
  • Revisions of various sections to reflect SSARS No. 17 and Statement on Quality Control Standards No. 7
  • Revision of Interpretation No. 24, "Reference to the Country of Origin in a Review or Compilation Report," of AR section 100

Includes all amendments and conforming changes.

Table of Contents

  • How to Use This Volume
  • Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services
  • Defining Professional Requirements in Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services
  • Standards for Accounting and Review Services
  • Compilation and Review of Financial Statements
  • Compilation and Review of Financial Statements: Accounting and Review Services Interpretations of Section 100
  • Compilation of Specified Elements, Accounts, or Items of a Financial Statement
  • Compilation of Pro Forma Financial Information
  • Reporting on Comparative Financial Statements
  • Reporting on Comparative Financial Statements: Accounting and Review Services Interpretations of Section 200
  • Compilation Reports on Financial Statements Included in Certain Prescribed Forms
  • Compilation Reports on Financial Statements Included in Certain Prescribed Forms: Accounting and Review Services Interpretations of Section 300
  • Communications Between Predecessor and Successor Accountants
  • Communications Between Predecessor and Successor Accountants: Accounting and Review Services Interpretations of Section 400
  • Reporting on Compiled Financial Statements [Deleted by the issuance of Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services 7, November 1992.]
  • Reporting on Personal Financial Statements Included in Written Personal Financial Plans
  • Reporting on Personal Financial Statements Included in Written Personal Financial Plans: Accounting and Review Services Interpretation of Section 600
  • Exhibits
  • Appendixes
  • Topical Index

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Introduction

    .01 This section sets forth the meaning of certain terms used in Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs) issued by the Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC) in describing the profession.

Professional Requirements

    .02 SSARSs contain professional requirements, together with related guidance, in the form of explanatory material. Accountants performing a compilation or review have a responsibility to consider the entire text of a SSARS in carrying out their work on an engagement and in understanding and applying the professional requirements of the relevant SSARSs.

    .03 Not every paragraph of a SSARS carries a professional requirement that the accountant is expected to fulfill. Rather, the professional requirements are communicated by the language and the meaning of the words used in the SSARSs.

    .04 SSARSs use two categories of professional requirements identified by specific terms to describe the degree of responsibility they impose on accountants. They are as follows:

    •    Unconditional requirements. The accountant is required to comply with an unconditional requirement in all cases in which the circumstances exist to which the unconditional requirement applies. SSARSs use the words must or is required to indicate an unconditional requirement.
    •    Presumptively mandatory requirements. The accountant is also required to comply with a presumptively mandatory requirement in all cases in which the circumstances exist to which the presumptively mandatory requirement applies; however, in rare circumstances, the accountant may depart from a presumptively mandatory requirement provided that the accountant documents his or her justification for the departure and how the alternative procedures performed in the circumstances were sufficient to achieve the objectives of the presumptively mandatory requirement. SSARSs use the word should to indicate a presumptively mandatory requirement.

If a SSARS provides that a procedure or action is one that the accountant "should consider," the consideration of the procedure or action is presumptively required, whereas carrying out the procedure or action is not.

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