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AICPA issues nonauthoritative guidance for payroll audits
The TQAs discuss engagement and representation letters.
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The AICPA recently issued nonauthoritative guidance relating to multiemployer plan payroll compliance services when a practitioner is engaged to perform payroll compliance procedures as an agreed-upon procedures engagement in accordance with AT-C Section 215, Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements.
These services often are referred to as “payroll audits.” Technical Questions and Answers (TQAs) 6935.03—.06 discuss:
- Requesting and obtaining the engagement letter.
- Requesting and obtaining the representation letter from the engaging party.
- The situation when requested representations are not obtained from one or more responsible parties.
- The use of agreed-upon procedures reports or other reports as audit evidence.
Q&A Section 6935 has been retitled Multiemployer Plans, and former TQAs 6935.01—.02 have been transferred to Q&A Section 6933, Auditing Employee Benefit Plans, paragraphs .11—.12.
