Financial Reporting and the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the world of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the term “triggering event” had been a subtle classification, or at least one that was difficult to clearly identify. Henceforth, there will be few events more worthy of the mantle “triggering event” than COVID-19. Beyond the countless scary and burdening consequences of a pandemic, there are most definitely significant issues to financial reporting – perhaps even going concern questions.
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Red Flags for Nonprofit CPAs
CPAs working for or serving on the board of a nonprofit organization will likely be the most business-savvy person on the leadership team. As such, you can add critical value by assessing performance results and identifying troubling trends as they develop. This requires a CPA to look beyond the numbers by integrating financial and nonfinancial data to uncover serious threats before they become crises.
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Catching Up on Developments in the Single Audit Sphere
Uniform guidance became effective December 26, 2014. We did the first round of audits with the December 2015 year-ends. The government tends to relook at things in five years, so they put out a draft of changes they wanted to make. That came out on January 22. Everyone had until March 23 to respond to these revised changes and the AICPA responded with a pretty lengthy letter of things that they were questioning about the changes. We haven't heard anything since, with COVID-19 coming up.
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