Peer Review
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Report on the Firm’s System of Quality Control
February 26, 2019
To the Owners of Bridgers, Goodman, Aldridge, Baird & Clarke, PLLC and the Peer Review Committee of the Mississippi Society of CPAs
We have reviewed the system of quality control for the accounting and auditing practice of Bridgers, Goodman, Aldridge, Baird & Clarke, PLLC (the firm) in effect for the year ended August 31, 2018. Our peer review was conducted in accordance with the Standards for Performing and Reporting on Peer Reviews established by the Peer Review Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Standards).
A summary of the nature, objectives, scope, limitations of, and the procedures performed in a System Review as described in the Standards may be found at www.aicpa.org/prsummary. The summary also includes an explanation of how engagements identified as not performed or reported in conformity with applicable professional standards, if any, are evaluated by a peer reviewer to determine a peer review rating.
Firm’s Responsibility
The firm is responsible for designing a system of quality control and complying with it to provide the firm with reasonable assurance of performing and reporting in conformity with applicable professional standards in all material respects. The firm is also responsible for evaluating actions to promptly remediate engagements deemed as not performed or reported in conformity with professional standards, when appropriate, and for remediating weaknesses in its system of quality control, if any.
Peer Reviewer’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the design of the system of quality control and the firm’s compliance therewith based on our review.
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Required Selections and Considerations
Engagements selected for review included engagements performed under Government Auditing Standards, including a compliance audit under the single audit act and an audit of an employee benefit plan.
As a part of our peer review, we considered reviews by regulatory entities as communicated by the firm, if applicable, in determining the nature and extent of our procedures.
Opinion
In our opinion, the system of quality control for the accounting and auditing practice of Bridgers, Goodman, Aldridge, Baird & Clarke, PLLC in effect for the year ended August 31, 2018, has been suitably designed and complied with to provide the firm with reasonable assurance of performing and reporting in conformity with applicable professional standards in all material respects. Firms can receive a rating of pass, pass with deficiency(ies) or fail. Bridgers, Goodman, Aldridge, Baird & Clarke, PLLC has received a peer review rating of pass.
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