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Week 1 Cpa Report

Decent Essays

Memo

To: Outside CPA

From:

CC: Manager

Date: April 25, 2011

Re: CPA Report

Below I have summarized an explanation to the questions that came about during your examination of a subsidiary that has been set up as a corporation.

• The methodology used to determine deferred taxes.

The deferred taxes reported are a temporary difference. The deferred taxes were calculated based on what needed to be reported versus what has been posted to the corporations’ books. The “temporary difference is the difference between the tax basis of an asset or liability and its reported (carrying or book) amount in the financial statements, which will result in taxable amounts or deductible amounts in future years” (Kieso, el. 2007, …show more content…

The corporation and stockholders have the tax burden in a corporation. In whole, from the owners’ point of view, it is more sensible to form a corporation that has a little more flexibility and less liability versus a partnership or sole proprietorship.

References

Bline, D. M., Fischer, M. L., and Skekel, T. D. (2004) Advanced Accounting. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Kieso, D. E., Weygandt, J. J. and Warfield, T. D. (2007). Intermediate Accounting. (12th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Memo

To: Manager

From: Rebecca Carver

Date: April 25, 2011

Re: CPA Report

As stated by Schroeder, el. (2005), my professional responsibilities as a CPA include independence, scope of services, confidentiality, practice development, and differences on accounting issues. It is my responsibility to keep my professional judgment unbiased and base my opinions on factual information and to keep my personal interest separate from the clients work. It is my responsibility not to indulge any client with nonaudit services not relating to the financial audit. It is my responsibility to keep the clients information confidential and only report information that is deemed necessary for investors and outside users. It is my responsibility to not enter in to any advertisement that would be misleading or untrue. It is my responsibility to determine and discuss with the client any differences in accounting issues that related to how transactions are

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