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State and Local Governmental Developments – Audit Risk Alert

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Developed for the auditor who needs to know what risks and issues are present when it comes to auditing the financial statements of state and local governments, this audit risk alert addresses:

  • Regulatory and legislative developments, including IRS rulings
  • Recent GASB pronouncements and guidance
  • Economic and industry developments

This valuable resource will strengthen the integrity of your audits and help ensure that your planning procedures encompass all the matters that could affect your audit.

Table of Contents

  • State and Local Governmental Developments - 2008
  • How This Alert Helps You
  • Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement
  • Economic and Industry Developments
    • The State of the National Economy
    • The State of the States' Economy
    • Fiscal Sustainability Challenges for All Levels of Government
    • Other Industry Trends and Conditions
  • Legislative and Regulatory Developments
    • Securities and Exchange Commission Developments
    • IRS Developments
    • Sales Tax on Internet Sales
  • Audit and Attestation Issues and Developments
    • Government Auditing Standards Developments
    • Results of Federal Study on Single Audit Quality
    • AICPA Audit Committee Toolkit for Government Entities
    • Other Governmental Audit Issues and Developments
    • Summary of Recent Auditing and Attestation
    • Pronouncements and Related Guidance
    • The Auditor's Communication With Those Charged With Governance
    • Communicating Internal Control Related Matters
    • Identi?ed in an Audit
    • AICPA Risk Assessment Standards
  • Accounting Issues and Developments
    • GASB Accounting Standards Upcoming Implementation Dates
    • Changes to the Financial Accounting Foundation,
    • FASB, and GASB
    • FASB Accounting Standards Codi?cation(TM)
    • Summary of Recent Accounting Pronouncements and Related Guidance
    • GASB Statement No. 52
    • GASB Statement No. 51
    • GASB Statement No. 50
  • Recent AICPA Independence and Ethics Pronouncements
  • On the Horizon
    • Auditing Pipeline
    • Accounting Pipeline
  • Resource Central
    • AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center
    • AICPA Industry Expert Panel--State and Local Governments
    • Publications
    • AICPA reSOURCE: Accounting and Auditing
    • Literature
    • Continuing Professional Education
    • Webcasts
    • Member Service Center
    • Hotlines
    • Industry Conferences
    • Industry Web Sites
  • Appendix--Additional Web Resources

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Notice to Readers

This Audit Risk Alert is intended to provide auditors of financial statements of state and local governments with an overview of recent economic, industry, technical, regulatory, and professional developments that may affect the audits and other engagements they perform.

This publication is an other auditing publication as defined in AU section 150, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1). Other auditing publications have no authoritative status; however, they may help the auditor understand and apply the Statements on Auditing Standards.

If an auditor applies the auditing guidance included in an other auditing publication, he or she should be satisfied that, in his or her judgment, it is both relevant to the circumstances of the audit and appropriate. The auditing guidance in this document has been reviewed by the AICPA Audit and Attest Standards staff and published by the AICPA and is presumed to be appropriate. This document has not been approved, disapproved, or otherwise acted on by a senior technical committee of the AICPA.

Christopher Cole, CPA, CFE
Technical Manager
Accounting and Auditing Publications

Acknowledgments
The AICPA staff is grateful to the following individuals for their essential contributions in creating this publication.

Michael A. Crawford, CPA
Donald L. Rahn, CPA
Marcia Buchanan, CPA
Brian Schebler, CPA
Martha Haines
Caroline Walsh, CPA
Edward Chait, CPA


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