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Assessing and responding to audit risk in a financial statement audit full-text: 04-02: 2009: Assessing and responding to audit risk in a financial statement audit, revised edition as of October 1, 2009: 04-03: 2012: Assessing and responding to audit risk in a financial statement audit, with conforming changes as of March 1, 2012: 04-04: 2014
The auditor must state in the auditor's report whether the financial statements are presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The auditor must identify in the auditor's report those circumstances in which such principles have not been consistently observed in the current period in relation to the preceding period.
SAS No. 122, Clarification and Recodification, contains the Preface to Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards, Principles Underlying an Audit Conducted in Accordance With Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, and 39 clarified SASs. This statement recodifies and supersedes all outstanding SASs through No. 121 except
They are meant to influence the development of accounting standards and to propose revisions to the AICPA's Audit and Accounting Guide (AAGs) series. [1] [2] The full-text for each SOP is available from the University of Mississippi's Library Digital Collections with the permission of the AICPA. SOPs have been issued since 1974.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has issued guidance to accountants and auditors since 1917, when, at the behest of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and auspices of the Federal Reserve Board, it issued a series of pamphlets to the accounting community in regard to preparing financial statements and auditing (then referred to as "verification" and later "examination"). [4]
Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements no. 18 (SSAE No. 18 or SSAE 18) is a Generally Accepted Auditing Standard produced and published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Auditing Standards Board. Though it states that it could be applied to almost any subject matter, its focus is reporting on the ...
SSAE 16 mirrors the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3402. [3] Similarly, SSAE 16 has two different kinds of reports. A SOC 1 Type 1 report is an independent snapshot of the organization's control landscape on a given day. A SOC 1 Type 2 report adds a historical element, showing how controls were managed over time.
SOC 2 Audits can be carried out only by either a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a certified technical expert belonging to an audit firm licensed by the AICPA. The SOC 2 Audit provides the organization’s detailed internal controls report made in compliance with the 5 trust service criteria.