Questions:

1. Provide critical comments on the auditors report, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of the attached report.

   Report on the Financial Statements

   We have audited the accompanying financial statements of ABC (a nonprofit organization) as of and for the year ended December 31, 20XX, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the Organizations basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents.

   Managements Responsibility for the Financial Statements

   Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the UAE; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

   Auditors Responsibility

   Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the UAE and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards. The financial statements of ABC were not audited in accordance with Government Auditing Standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

   An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Organizations preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Organizations internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

   We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

   Opinion

   In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of ABC, as of December 31, 20XX, and the changes in financial position and cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted.

   Report on Summarized Comparative Information

   We have previously audited the Organizations fiscal year 20XX financial statements, and our report dated April XX, 20XX, expressed an unmodified opinion on those audited financial statements. In our opinion, the summarized comparative information presented herein as of and for the year ended December 31, 20XX, is consistent, in all material respects, with the audited financial statements from which it has been derived.

   Other Matters

   Required Supplementary Information

   Accounting principles generally accepted require that the managements discussion and analysis on pages X through Y be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the financial statements, is required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, who considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted, which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency with managements responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance.

   Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards

   In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated April XX, 20XX, on our consideration of the Organizations internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards in considering the Organizations internal control over financial reporting and compliance.