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<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=5"> vol. LXXXIII/no. 3 24ESSENTIALS 24</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=8"> PERSPECTIVES viewpoint Global Financial Crisi</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=9"> publisher's column </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=10"> (Continued from page 6) because the company was c</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=11"> pelled to relent; under pressure from Congress, i</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=12"> some disclosure pertaining to the adequa- cy of c</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=13"> book review Guide for Conducting Risk Assess</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=14"> risk management Risk Modeling at the SEC </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=15"> Both issues are important and the concerns descri</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=16"> native tax treatments that minimize taxable incom</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=17"> point the authors fail to adequately drive home i</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=18"> his comments, and we had endeavored to make many </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=19"> ly make that adjustment. On the other hand, if th</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=20"> In Focus </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=21"> School District Boards, Audit Committees, and Bud</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=22"> the school board and various components of the sc</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=23"> overseeing the district's financial activities. (</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=24"> The authors believe that taxpayers, who fund a si</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=25"> Approximately 83% of the Long Island school di</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=26"> ACCOUNTING & AUDITING auditing </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=27"> in addition to those it has promulgated, even tho</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=28"> SINGLE-YEAR REPORT, WITH REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTR</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=29"> Auditors for the sample company should also </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=30"> SINGLE-YEAR REPORT, WITH EMPHASIS-OF-MATTER PARAG</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=31"> sidebar, Single-Year Report, with Other- Matters </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=32"> SINGLE-YEAR REPORT, WITH QUALIFIED OPINION INDE</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=33"> of Opinion” paragraph, the auditor has not been a</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=34"> ACCOUNTING & AUDITING accounting The Pr</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=35"> ments. Gains and losses resulting from for- eign </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=36"> three of the OCI items described above. These com</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=37"> accumulated OCI. The proposal included a requirem</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=38"> TAXATION federal taxation </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=39"> state taxes are more likely to be affected by the</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=40"> EXHIBIT 2 Sche</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=41"> will not be subject to the AMT but will be subjec</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=42"> are not deductible. In the case of excessive i</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=43"> New York City resident will notice that the neigh</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=44"> TAXATION federal taxtion Implications of the</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=45"> inflation before ATRA, it affected tax- payers wi</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=46"> In sum, the effects of the fiscal cliff deal are </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=47"> 2013 FAE Conferences foundation for accountin</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=48"> FINANCE banking </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=49"> Equities Deposits </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=50"> Total Assets 1,027 Eq</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=51"> weak when using market value. This indi- cates th</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=52"> buys Treasury bills for cash or if a German bank </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=53"> pany reported a $5.8 billion trading loss due to </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=54"> the loans were not repaid did not affect the bank</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=55"> FINANCE corporate finance The Cost of Cap</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=56"> panies completely or, more typically, they assume</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=57"> EBITDA. As shown in Exhibit 5, bank loans are the</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=58"> invested in companies with valuations that, at th</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=59"> MANAGEMENT accountant's liability Criminal L</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=60"> Basic Principles of Legal Liability One way o</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=61"> (2d Cir. 1964); U.S. v. Natelli, 527 F.2d 311 (2d</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=62"> ecutor's judgment as to whether the case is one o</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=63"> of each of the various tax fraud offenses crimina</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=64"> Finally, consider the case of Legel, an accoun</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=65"> ed as sales rather than financings, so that the a</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=66"> RESPONSIBILITIES & LEADERSHIP ethics </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=67"> est by outlining a situation in which an auditor </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=68"> to two important areas in the auditing stan- dard</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 69" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=69"> isnt-telling/). The apparently limited report- in</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 70" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=70"> RESPONSIBILITIES & LEADERSHIP ethics Gu</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=71"> The unadjusted trial balance shown in Exhibit </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 72" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=72"> Thus, it is important that CPAs can recognize s</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 73" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=73"> has on their independence. Although per- forming </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 74" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=74"> TECHNOLOGY what to bookmark Web</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 75" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=75"> FAE 2013 On Demand Self-Study foundation for </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 76" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=76"> CLASSIFIEDMARKETPLACE PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY l </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 77" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=77"> Peer Review If you need help, the</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 79" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=79"> PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT EXPERT PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 81" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=81"> ECONOMIC & MARKET DATA monthly update</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 82" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=82"> EDITORIAL a message from the editor-in-ch</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - March 2013 page 83" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/739cf269?page=83"> </a>
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