aicpaeditorialstylemanual-northcarolinastateuniversity.doc

AICPA Editorial Style Manual Note: This document will be updated regularly, as needed. See appendix F for a schedule of changes. Please direct any questions or comments to editorialservices@. Note: If printed, this is not a controlled document. Access the original, controlled document on the Team 355 Sharepoint home page, in the AICPA Editorial Style Manual Folder.  AICPA Editorial Style Manual 1 Introduction 3 Scope 3 Audience 3 Use 3 AICPA Information 3 Copyright 3 Address 3 Publication Names and Titles 3 Capitalization of Series Titles 3 Series Titles 3 Nonseries Titles 3 Short Titles and Acronyms 3 Comma Usage With Publication Titles 3 Quotation Marks and Italics With Titles 3 Citation of Publications 3 Rules 3 AICPA Publications 3 FASB Accounting Standards Codification 3 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations 3 Other Non-AICPA Publications 3 Cross-Referenced Sections 3 Examples of Full Citations and Subsequent Mentions 3 Citing Paragraph Numbers 3 Lists of Publication Titles Containing Numbers 3 Special Titles 3 List of Troublesome Words 3 Above and Below 3 As and Since vs. Because 3 As To 3 Compare With vs. Compare To 3 Comprise vs. Compose 3 Effect vs. Affect 3 Impact vs. Affect 3 That vs. Which 3 There 3 While 3 General Grammatical Considerations 3 Latin Abbreviations (e.g., i.e., and etc.) and Pluralizations 3 Prefixes 3 Accounting and Auditing Terminology 3 Financial Statements as a Whole 3 Punctuation 3 Hyphens and Dashes 3 Parentheses and Brackets 3 Slashes 3 Quotation Marks 3 Punctuation and Footnote Markers 3 Formatting 3 Headings 3 Capitalization 3 Rules 3 Legislative Nomenclature 3 Technical Terms 3 In Headings 3 Use of Italic, Bold, and Quotation Marks for Emphasis 3 Tables 3 Quoted Material 3 Glossaries 3 Financial Statements 3 Paragraph Numbers 3 Slugging Changes in the Literature 3 Numbers 3 Numerals or Words 3 In a Table 3 Dates 3 Percent 3 In a Range 3 Acronyms 3 Rules 3 Use of Articles With Acronyms 3 Plural and Possessive Forms of Acronyms 3