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The AICPA offers classroom resources used by CPAs, CFOs, financial professionals and consultants every day for up-to-date information and guidance. Our professional materials are filled with real-world knowledge that your students need to understand the industry’s most pressing issues and critical procedures. All print publications listed here are available for review for potential classroom adoption. For other AICPA titles that are not listed below, please use the form to inquire about their availability.
Topics covered:
- Fraud and Business Valuation
- Management Accounting
- Accounting and Auditing
- Not-for-Profit
- Tax
- Career and Practice Management
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Fraud and Business Valuation
Understanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small to Medium Sized Businesses, Fifth Edition
Author: Gary R. Trugman, CPA/ABV, MCBA, ASA, MVS
Product # PBV1701P
Understanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small to Medium Sized Businesses, Fifth Edition, Workbook Only
Product#: PBV1801P
Valuation of businesses for myriad purposes continues to be a growth area for CPAs. Your students will benefit from the comprehensive foundational knowledge that Understanding Business Valuation provides. This book thoroughly covers the basics and delivers practical applications for using business valuation theory. Topics include valuation standards, theory, approaches, methods, discount and capitalization rates, and S corporation issues. Exhibits, tables, boxes, and figures will help your students understand the topics discussed.
An accompanying CD-ROM includes several sample reports and a comprehensive bibliography.
New features include recent changes to valuation theory and a chapter on valuations for financial reporting
Essentials of Personal Financial Planning Availability
Product#: PPF1701P
This book discusses and encourages planners to take a holistic approach to life planning, a process that places the client and the client’s desires, dreams, and goals above the financial plan.
PFP services include the following:
- Cash flow planning
- Charitable planning
- Education planning
- Elder planning
- Estate, gift, and wealth transfer planning
- Investment planning
- Retirement planning
- Risk management and insurance planning
- Tax planning
Essentials of Forensic Accounting
Authors: William S. Hopwood, Ph.D., George R. Young, Ph.D., CPA, CFE, Michael A. Crain, CPA, ABV, ASA, CFA, CFE, and Carl Pacini, Ph.D., JD, CPA
Product # PFF1401P
The Essentials of Forensic Accounting is an authoritative resource covering a comprehensive range of forensic accounting topics. As a foundation review, a reference book or as preparation for the Certification in Financial Forensics (CFF) exam, this publication will provide thoughtful and insightful examination of the key themes in this field:
- Professional Responsibilities and Practice Management
- Fundamental Forensic Knowledge, Laws, Courts, and Dispute Resolution
- Specialized Forensic Knowledge, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Reorganization
Through illustrative examples, cases and explanations, this book makes abstract concepts come to life to help students understand and navigate successfully in this complex area.
Valuation of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation - Accounting and Valuation Guide
Product # AAGSTK13P
Since the issuance of FASB ASC 718 and 505-50 in 2004, valuing stock-based compensation (“cheap stock”) has been a significant challenge for private companies. This guide has been designed to mitigate those challenges. It brings you practical guidance and illustrations related to accounting, disclosures and valuation of privately-held-company equity securities issued as compensation.
This guide includes:
- Evaluating private and secondary market transactions — What should companies do when transaction activity doesn’t match their estimates of value?
- Adjustments for control and marketability — How should companies think about the value of the enterprise for the purpose of valuing minority securities? When is it appropriate to apply a discount for lack of marketability, and how should the estimated discount be supported?
- Highly leveraged entities — How should companies incorporate the fair value of debt in the valuation of equity securities? What is the impact of leverage on the expected volatility of various securities?
- The relevance of ASC 820 (SFAS 157) to cheap stock issues
- Updated guidance and illustrations regarding the valuation of, and disclosures related to, privately held company equity securities issued as compensation
This Guide also provides expanded and more robust valuation material to reflect advances in the theory and practice of valuation since 2004.
This edition includes guidance from FASB ASC 718, 505-50, 820-10 and SSVS 1 which were all issued since the last AICPA guidance dedicated to this issue.
Guide to Intangible Asset Valuation
Authors: Robert F. Reilly, CPA and Robert P. Schweihs, ASA
Product # PBV1401P
Written by highly experienced authors, the Guide to Intangible Asset Valuation defines and explains the disciplined process of identifying assets that have clear economic benefit, and provides an invaluable framework within which to value these assets. The authors lay out the critical process that leads students through the description, identification and valuation of intangible assets and will help them to:
- Describe the basic types of intangible assets
- Find and identify intangible assets
- Provide guidelines for valuing those assets
This indispensable reference focuses strictly on intangible assets. Through illustrative examples and clear modeling, this book makes abstract concepts come to life to help students learn to deliver strong and accurate valuations.
Testing Goodwill for Impairment - Accounting and Valuation Guide
Product # AAGGDW13P
This guide provides accounting and valuation guidance for impairment testing of goodwill. Specifically, it focuses on practice issues related to the qualitative assessment.
This resource will help students seeking an advanced understanding of the accounting, valuation, and disclosures related to goodwill impairment testing (including the qualitative assessment). It is also a vital resource for learning about the preparation of financial statements of public and private companies that follow FASB guidance on goodwill.
Covered topics include:
- Fair Value: This guide discusses measuring the fair value of a reporting unit in accordance with FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, and illustrates the valuation techniques often utilized for this purpose.
- Practice Issues: This guide addresses such issues as identifying reporting units, assigning assets and liabilities to a reporting unit, treatment of shared assets and liabilities among reporting units, assigning recorded goodwill to reporting units, when to test goodwill for impairment, consideration of market participant assumptions, performing comparison to market capitalization, and more.
- New Qualitative Assessment: This guide describes the framework for performing the optional qualitative assessment, and includes an example that illustrates one approach for performing it.
- Comprehensive Example: This guide includes a comprehensive example of a valuation analysis used for performing steps 1 and 2 of the goodwill impairment test. In this example, the discount rate adjustment technique, the guideline public company method, and the guideline company transactions method are used to determine the fair value of a reporting unit. These are the most frequently used methods in practice when determining the fair value of a reporting unit in accordance with ASC 820.
- Disclosures: Provides example disclosures which meet the requirements contained in FASB ASC 350-20, as well as those of Item 303 of SEC Regulation S-K.
Management Accounting
The AICPA Audit Committee Toolkit: Public Companies
Author: The AICPA Audit Committee Effectiveness Center in cooperation with CNA
Product # PMA1402P
This version of the popular audit committee toolkit is written to help students understand how audit committees of public companies can achieve best practices for managing and incorporating their role in the organization. Now with downloadable content, this Toolkit offers a broad sampling of checklists, matrices, reports, questionnaires and other pertinent materials specifically tailored to public companies and designed to make audit committee best practices actionable.
This book includes:
- Administrative guidelines – including a sample charter matrix, audit committee roles and responsibilities, and an overview of the AICPA peer review program
- Roles and responsibilities – with checklists, tools, and guidelines for the audit committee, independent auditors, and a sample whistleblower policy and tracking report
- Performance evaluation tools – key forms needed to evaluate internal audit teams, independent auditors, and an audit committee self-evaluation
The AICPA Audit Committee Toolkit: Private Companies
Author: The AICPA Audit Committee Effectiveness Center in cooperation with CNA
Product # PMA1403P
The AICPA Audit Committee Toolkit: Private Companies is designed to support audit committee related issues, including discussion of IFRS. This book takes the guesswork out effectively establishing and managing an audit committee by providing the student with dozens of useful tools. Developed specifically for private companies, it provides all of the most common forms, and additional tools tailored for the private company. The accompanying downloadable content features forms and checklists that can be filled out and saved to effectively create, file, and track documentation.
This book includes:
- Administrative guidelines – including a sample charter matrix, audit committee roles and responsibilities, and an overview of the AICPA peer review program
- Roles and responsibilities – with checklists, tools, and guidelines for the audit committee, independent auditors, and a sample whistleblower policy and tracking report
- Performance evaluation tools – key forms needed to evaluate internal audit teams, independent auditors, and an audit committee self-evaluation
Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance
Author: Gary Cokins
Product # PCG1305P
Presenting core theories alongside practical applications, this publication will help students understand how to effectively move an organization toward strategic goals. Author Gary Cokins uses his deep knowledge of the subject matter to deliver an easy-to-follow road map to effective and strategic management through:
- Establishing the integral links between planning and performance
- Demonstrating how risk management and performance assessment impact planning
- Applying business analytics and Big Data in the finance and accounting functions as well as marketing, sales, operations and other functions
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a strategy map and the balanced scorecard as a management tool
- Tying budgeting to strategy and measuring the effectiveness of both via ongoing performance
Written in a plain, straight-forward fashion that will allow students to draw immediate value from its content, this book pulls together several topics in an elegant yet sophisticated approach. It uses detailed graphics and diagrams to provide students with a clear understanding of the dynamic intersection between key management and organization leadership topics that management accountants need to master in order to fill a strategic leadership role within their organizations.
The Traits of Today’s CFO: A Handbook for Excelling in an Evolving Role
Author: Ron Rael, CPA, CGMA
Product #PCG1303P
As the business world grows in complexity and increases in pace, organizations expect the leaders of their management accounting teams to be just that — leaders. Crunching the numbers, running financial reports, and complying with rules and regulations are only a part of contemporary CFOs’ or controllers’ work. Equally important is CFOs’ participation
on the executive team as a strategic leader of the finance function, a strong communicator, high-level negotiator, and builder of a collaborative environment.
This book explores in detail controllers’ and CFOs’ critical traits and explains specifically what actions are required to meet these requirements. It provides a wealth of information on coaching employees and, in the process, transferring accountability for results back to their hands. It further includes thorough coverage of best practices in governance and risk programs, gap analysis, shaping organizational culture, and team building.
Drawing on studies of executives and leaders of finance teams, The Traits of Today’s CFO develops a detailed picture of the contemporary and future controller and CFO and tells students how to prepare for these roles.
Includes checklists, self-assessments, position descriptions, coaching exercises, and other practical tools.
Risk Assessment for Mid-Sized Organisations: COSO Tools for a Tailored Approach, 2nd Edition
Author: Scott McKay, CPA, CPE, CIA, CCSA
Product #PCG1307P
This resource offers practical examples and explanations that lay out a clearly defined framework for approaching enterprise risk management from start to finish. It identifies risk at the entity level in small and medium size enterprises, and allows students to develop a tailored approach to an organization’s risk management requirements.
The publication features tightly written strategies and helpful diagrams that translate COSO guidelines into tactical plans and also includes a free download containing a set of Excel worksheets that show how following the ERM tactics will impact quantitative financial measurements. It also includes a PowerPoint presentation for training others involved in the ERM process.
Together, this approach will allow students to create a solid structure for a risk management process that helps them avoid the internal and external risks that damaged so many organizations in the recent past. They will be able to:
- Create a common language to define, identify, evaluate, and manage risk
- Establish and agree on risk tolerances and risk appetite
- Identify risk management expectations, current gaps, and risk owners
- Leverage cross-functional expertise to manage risk to within acceptable levels
Internal Control – Integrated Framework (3 volume set)
Product #990025P
Developed by the Committee on Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission (COSO), this new framework consists of three volumes:
- Executive Summary — The summary provides a high-level overview and lays out the definition and limitations of internal control, and the requirements for an effective system of internal control, including a description of the roles of components and principles. It highlights several important enhancements and clarifications that are intended to ease use and application of the framework.
- Framework and Appendices — The framework sets forth and describes the five components and 17 principles of a system of internal control, illustrates many approaches and examples relating to entity objectives, and provides direction for all levels of management to use in designing, implementing and conducting a system of internal control, and in assessing its effectiveness. The appendices provide additional reference material, including a glossary of key terminology, a discussion of roles and responsibilities of both responsible and external parties, and more.
- Illustrative Tools for Assessing a System of Internal Control (Tools) — The tools provide illustrative templates and scenarios that may be useful in applying the framework and assessing its effectiveness.
Marketing Management for Non-Marketing Managers
Author: Heather Fitzpatrick, CPA, CGMA
Product #PCG1304P
Although marketing-related expenses are a significant portion of most organizations’ budgets, it is often frustrating for those with budget oversight to get a clear picture of the returns on their marketing investment. This engaging book offers practical ways for non-marketing managers and executives to measure and improve marketing returns. Students will learn:
- Why market leaders achieve significantly greater returns on their marketing than others within their market.
- The three main reasons most marketing plans fail to live up to their potential, and the steps to avoid these pitfalls.
- How to evaluate a marketing investment’s likely ROI before investing the money.
- When and how to assess the financial returns of marketing efforts.
The book includes:
- Case studies from companies of various sizes and in a cross-section of industries, including not-for-profits
- Four tests to use prior to the approval of a marketing budget
- A marketing performance evaluation tool
Communications: Methods and Applications for Financial Managers
Author: James Carberry
Product #PCG1301P
Improving communication is one of the most important — and challenging — issues that management accountants face. In a global survey of CFOs, Ernst & Young said: “Despite two thirds of respondents saying that increasingly they act as the public face of the organization, most point to communication and influencing as the most important area for improvement.”
In this publication, students will learn:
- How do management accountants know if they are effectively communicating?
- What are the most effective techniques for improving their communication skills?
This book draws on interviews with finance professionals at every level of corporate accounting, as well as with communication consultants, executive recruiters and educators. It looks at how management accountants communicate inside and outside their organizations, identifies best practices, and gives hands-on strategies that students can use right away.
Students will discover how to:
- Move their current communication skills to a higher level.
- Recognize the importance of communication within the context of their financial manager function.
- Understand the right way to deliver bad news and resolve conflicts.
- Manage the impact of new technologies on traditional communication channels.
- Develop the skills to use active listening as the foundation for positive communication tactics.
Smart Risk Management: A Guide to Identifying and Calibrating Business Risks
Author: Ron Rael, CPA, CGMA
Product #PCG1401P
Management accountants must be able to define the payoffs from their organization’s risk taking, as well as identify, understand, and reduce the negative effects of everyday business risks. This book defines organizational risk taking and outlines a formal process to handle risk effectively.
The book details six steps for sound risk management:
- Defining risk
- Examining your attitude toward risk
- Analyzing your organization’s ability to handle risk
- Minimizing a risk’s exposure or downside
- Recovering quickly from a risk’s negative impacts
- Expanding your knowledge so you can accept more risk with confidence
Written for management accountants, Smart Risk Management analyzes your position in the middle of the organization, both that it does not take risks whose costs it cannot afford and that it takes enough risks to stay competitive in the evolving marketplace.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting in Uncertain Times
Authors: Michael Coveney, Gary Cokins
Product #PCG1306P
Budgeting, planning and forecasting are critical management tasks that not only impact the future success of an organization, but can threaten its very survival if done badly.
Yet in spite of their importance, the speed and complexity of today’s business environment has caused a rapid decrease in the planning time horizon. As a consequence, the traditional planning processes have become unsuitable for most organization’s needs.
In this book, students will find new, original insights, including:
- 7 planning models that every organization needs to plan and manage performance
- 6 ways in which performance can be viewed
- A planning framework based on best management practices that can cope with an unpredictable business environment
- The application of technology to planning and latest developments in systems
- Results of the survey conducted for the book on the state of planning in organizations
Strategy and Risk Management: An Integrated Practical Approach
Author: Ron Rael, CPA, CGMA
Product #PCG1309P
Employees make dozens of day-to-day decisions — and any one of them could come back to haunt them, even when the decision does not seem to have hidden or unknown ramifications. That is why an organization must have a protocol in place for identifying and mitigating all major business risks long before it is needed.
At the strategic level, risk management and strategic management are intertwined. Using this book, students learn how to apply powerful tools and approaches to make planning processes more effective and flexible and build a set of decision-making processes based on plain language. Author, Ron Rael, uses quality concepts/language (TQM & Six Sigma) to define the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process and value of prevention, while showing how these elements are both necessary and highly desired in an organization’s strategic decision-making.
ERM extends to everyday business decisions because employees take actions and make daily choices that could have a detrimental effect on profits and business’s longevity and future. This book will:
- Provide a best practices view on the latest developments in ERM
- Deliver how-to guidance on developing ERM processes at the enterprise and department levels
- Facilitate enterprise-wide ERM participation via practical information and examples
- Deliver cross-functional management and implementation of ERM
Controller as Business Manager
Author: Jim Lindell
Product #PCG1402P
This publication will help students understand and apply a critical set of financial and business management skill sets in order to become integral contributors to the higher level business activities within an organization. With insight and examples, the author will lead them through the strategies and thought processes that address key areas such as risk, communications, planning and profitability. The content emphasizes the additional roles that controllers and accounting managers are now playing within their organizations. It will show students a roadmap that can expand their role from a simple internal process/ transaction orientation to an external orientation focused on understanding business, industry and macro trends.
This book will address:
- Controllers and accounting managers who are being increasingly called on to assume an enterprise-wide management role in their organizations.
- Tools and techniques that can have immediate impact.
- Sufficient business theory to inform, but deliver enough strong practical content to lead to actionable strategies.
Change Management for Finance and Accounting Professionals
Author: Ron Rael, CPA, CGMA
Product #PCG1302P
This leadership book tackles the often intimidating concept of instigating change. It removes the shroud of mystery and misunderstanding from it while providing students with the wealth of tools and tactics that they will need to lead a transformation effort. Once they master the tools that cause shifts and spark transformations, they will become a powerful professional change agent — one who is able to get people and organizations to shift and is sought after and commands higher compensation.
Key Overriding Messages:
- Change happens; it is what you do with it that makes you important
- You can either be impacted by change or you can impact change; a great leader choses to impact change.
- Change and improvement are two unique events. The first one is inevitable, the second one is optional.
- Change is the journey, not the destination
Accounting and Auditing
AICPA Professional Standards
Product #APS15P
Updated as of June 1, 2015, Professional Standards is your comprehensive source of auditing and attestation pronouncements issued by the AICPA, along with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and Bylaws. Standards and related interpretations, to help you apply the standards in specific circumstances, are arranged by subject with amendments noted, superseded portions deleted, and conforming changes reflected.
Changes to this year’s publication include:
- SSARS No. 21, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services: Clarification and Recodification
- SAS No. 129, Amendment to Statement on Auditing Standards No. 122 Section 920, Letters for Underwriters and Certain Other Requesting Parties, as Amended
- Ten new auditing and attestation Statements of Position
- One new accounting Statement of Position
In addition, Professional Standards includes:
- Attestation Standards and Interpretations
- Accounting and Review Services Standards and Interpretations
- Code of Professional Conduct
- Bylaws
- Valuation Services Standards and Interpretations
- Consulting Services Standards
- Quality Control Standards
- Peer Review Standards and Interpretations
- Tax Services Standards and Interpretations
- Policies for the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Membership Requirement and CPE Standards
Assessing and Responding to Audit Risk in a Financial Statement Audit
Product # AAGARR14P
The Audit Guide provides students with practical information, guidance, practice aids, and illustrative examples for the application of the risk assessment standards including:
- A plain-English overview of the risk assessment process
- Diagrams and examples to illustrate key points
- A discussion of internal control and how it impacts your risk assessment
- Step-by-step guidance through the risk assessment procedure
- A cast study illustrating audit documentation developed in a risk assessment
- A helpful observations and practice tips throughout
Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards
As of January 1, 2016
Product #ACODSAS15P
This 2016 edition will ensure your students have the information they need to conduct successful, high-quality audits.
The authoritative guidance, issued directly from the AICPA, will help them comply with the clarified auditing standards accurately and efficiently to prevent common audit deficiencies.
This edition includes the following new standards:
- SAS No. 130, An Audit Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That Is Integrated With an Audit of Financial Statements
- SAS No. 131, Amendment to SAS No. 122 Section 700, Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements
- Exhibit C, "Statement on Updates to Audit Response Letters," to AU-C section 501, Audit Evidence - Specific Considerations for Selected Items
- Interpretation No. 2, "Sustainability Financial Statements Under Federal Financial Accounting Standards - Auditor Reporting" of AU-C section 700, Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements.
It is fully indexed and arranged by subject, and clearly shows amendments, deleted and superseded portions, and conforming changes due to the issuance of new authoritative guidance.
PCAOB Standards and Related Rules
Product #APCAOB15P
This new 2016 edition of the AICPA's PCAOB Standards and Related Rules is a comprehensive source of PCAOB standards and related guidance, including:
- Auditing, Attestation, and Interim Standards
- PCAOB Staff Guidance
- Select Rules of the Board
- Select PCAOB Releases
Updates:
- PCAOB Release No. 2015-002, Reorganization of PCAOB Auditing Standards and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards and Rules
- Conforming changes due to pronouncements and other activity
U.S. GAAP Financial Statements — Best Practices in Presentation and Disclosure
Product #ATTATT14P
Save time and improve efficiency with the unrivaled presentation and disclosure examples found in U.S. GAAP Financial Statements. With comprehensive coverage of virtually every required disclosure, this resource is designed to give students an unparalleled picture of U.S. GAAP compliance.
This valuable tool provides hundreds of high quality disclosure examples from carefully selected companies of varying sizes in more than 100 industries. Illustrations of the most important and challenging disclosures are provided, such as derivatives and hedging, consolidations, and fair value measurement.
Also included are up-to-date auditors’ reports, fully in compliance with the Clarified Auditing Standards, and detailed indexes to help students find exactly what they need in as little time as possible.
Updates:
- No. 2014-10, Development Stage Entities (Topic 915): Elimination of Certain Financial Reporting Requirements, Including an Amendment to Variable Interest Guidance in Topic 810, Consolidation
- No. 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements--Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40) - Disclosure of Uncertainties about and Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
- No. 2014-17, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Pushdown Accounting
- No. 2015-01, Income Statement - Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20), Simplifying Income Statement Presentation by Eliminating the Concept of Extraordinary Items
Not-for-Profit
The Best of Boards: Sound Governance and Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations
Author: Kimberly Strom-Gottfried, PhD and Marci Thomas, CPA, MHA
Product #091040
The Best of Boards is a focused resource that provides students with the essential fiduciary knowledge and indispensable leadership guidance that not-for-profit board members and financial managers need to meet the challenges of the current not-for-profit environment. This book contains:
- Financial and ethical guidance for real-life situations
- Practical leadership advice for novice and experienced board members
- Assistance for not-for-profit managers tasked with governance challenges
- Tools, checklists, and templates based on common sense management techniques
This publication will show students how to build ethically sound management knowledge in not-for-profit board members so that they can ensure the compliance and, ultimately, the success of their organization.
The AICPA Audit Committee Toolkit: Not-for-Profit Organizations, 3rd Edition
Product #PMA1502P
This text takes the guesswork out of how to effectively establish and manage an audit committee by providing the student with dozens of useful tools. Developed specifically for not-for-profit organizations, it provides all of the most common forms, as well as tools specially tailored for not-for-profits. The accompanying CD-ROM features forms and checklists that can be filled out and saved to effectively create, file, and track audit committee activity. This is a strong resource for students moving into not-for-profit management
Tax
Tax Research Techniques, 10th Edition
Authors: Robert L. Gardner, Ph.D., Brigham Young University, Dave N. Stewart, CPA, Ph.D., Brigham Young University, Ronald G. Worsham Jr., CPA, Ph.D., Brigham Young University
Product #PTX1501P
Tax Research Techniques provides a working knowledge of the methodology of implementation-based tax research. Drawing on the latest developments in online research, the authors reveal how to ask the right questions, organize the facts, locate and assess pertinent authority, and clearly communicate research findings.
The Trusted Research Training Manual for Over 30 Years
As tax laws and tax research methods have changed over the past three decades, Tax Research Techniques has been a trusted resource to guide students and practitioners alike to best practices for efficient tax research. This latest edition updates examples and illustrations to highlight changes in tax law and online tax research over the past several years.
Tax Research Techniques will sharpen students’ knowledge of these five key tax research procedures:
- How to Get the Facts
- How to Ask Expert Questions
- How to Search for the Right Authority
- How to Resolve the Questions
- How to Communicate Your Conclusions
New and updated sections reflect the continuously evolving advances in the technology of Web-based rese
Career and Practice Management
CPA Firm Mergers & Acquisitions: How to Buy a Firm, How to Sell a Firm, and How to Make the Best Deal
Authors: Joel L. Sinkin and Terrence E. Putney, CPA
Product # PPM1304P
Authors and transition experts Joel Sinkin and Terrence Putney demonstrate that it is possible to arrive at a reasonable deal where retiring partners are paid a satisfying price for the practice they’ve built, remaining partners make more than they did before, and new owners take on a practice that is poised for continuing success and potential growth.
Sinkin and Putney share their best advice on how to:
- Determine a firm’s value
- Get to know the potential partner in a deal
- Select a successor clients will love
- Structure alternative deals
- Avoid roadblocks
- Prepare a practice continuation agreement
- Perform due diligence
- Execute a win-win deal
- Time and plan for a transition
Each chapter concludes with an Action Agenda to help spur planning. Plus, it includes a collection of practical tools to assist students through the process of buying, selling, or merging, including practice summary tools, an annual succession planning checklist, sample practice continuation agreement, sample client announcements, due diligence tools, and sample transition letters.