Ethics for CPAs
Subtitle: Meeting Expectations in Challenging Times
Publisher: Wiley
Published: February 10, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780471271765
First sentence: This book is designed to help practitioners understand and apply the ethics requirements of the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct, along with ethics requirements of The SEC
Description: Current, comprehensive guidelines to ethical regulations for accounting professionals.

A handful of high-profile accounting misdeeds at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and the like have left the entire accounting profession scrambling to assert its validity and negotiate a flurry of new regulations. Ethics for CPAs provides a valuable road map to this new landscape, instructing accounting professionals on how to abide by the new pronouncements and, if necessary, how to professionally respond to an investigation.

Employing an information-mapping format, Ethics for CPAs separates information into small units based on purpose or function for the reader, rather than by topic, creating an accessible desk reference. This authoritative guide covers the most recent and extensively revised ethics requirements of the.

· AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct.

· SEC.

· Department of Labor.

· GAO's Yellow Book.

· State societies and state boards.

With a companion Web site posting interpretations of new pronouncements within thirty days of issuance, Ethics for CPAs proves the most up-to-date and comprehensive resource on the market.