Credit Unions: Reforms for Ensuring Future Soundness : Report to the Congress

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General Accounting Office, 1991 - Credit unions - 371 pages

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Page 243 - Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis...
Page 243 - An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for the opinion expressed above.
Page 244 - ... and that transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Page 260 - ... in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of performing their...
Page 270 - Because of inherent limitations in any system of internal accounting control, errors or irregularities may nevertheless occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of the system to future periods is subject to the risk that procedures may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the procedures may deteriorate.
Page 296 - Act to establish a Federal Credit Union System, to establish a further market for securities of the United States and to make more available to people of small means credit for provident purposes through a national system of cooperative credit, thereby helping to stabilize the credit structure of the United States.
Page 316 - Board, with two members ex officio, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 244 - Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.
Page 224 - Federal Credit Union Act". (June 26, 1934, c. 750, § 1, 48 Stat. 1216.) Act of June 26, 1934, cited to the text, was entitled "An Act to establish a Federal Credit Union System, to establish a further market for securities of the United States...
Page 217 - Credit union organization shall be limited to groups (of both large and small membership) having a common bond of occupation, or association or to groups within a well-defined neighborhood, community or rural district.

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