frequent progress reports to management, keeping them
abreast of preliminary findings.
When fieldwork is done, the audit team goes back to ana-
lyze its data and prepare its findings. After they are finished, the
auditors make a formal presentation of their conclusions. What
you hope for is a letter that says something along the lines of
“We looked at these folks using all our good auditing tricks and
we conclude that they are pretty good GAAPers.” If there are
deviations from GAAP that you agree to change, the audit may
mention that they found deviations, but that management is
taking corrective action.
What you don’t want is to get into a situation where the
auditor sees a discrepancy and brings it to your attention and
you disagree that it’s a problem and refuse to do anything about
it. Then the auditor will give you a letter finding “material
breach” and your stock will tank and the bank will call the loan.
Work with the auditors. They’re really trying to help you. If the
auditors find a few things, they may come back in a year or so to
see how you’re doing at making the recommended changes.
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 2
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GAAP developed to help small investors have confidence
in financial statements so that they would be encouraged
to invest. Thus, GAAP is the foundation for all financial
statements.
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GAAP can be inconsistent in both logic and application.
Considerable judgment is often needed to reach a compat-
ible decision.
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Auditing is a way to assess how well GAAP has been
implemented.
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GAAP values an ethical stance to business activities.
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No internal controls are safe against fraud and collusion.
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