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Nonassurance services provided by CPAs include accounting and bookkeeping services, tax services, and management consulting services. Nonassurance services differ from assurance services. Most accounting and bookkeeping services, tax services, and management consulting services fall outside the scope of assurance services, although there is some common area of overlap between consulting and assurance services.