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AICPA, which publishes the audit standards and code of ethics that the responsible or engaged parties are expected to follow; Subservice organization , A service organization used by a service organization that is the responsible party; and
CPAs have an obligation to their clients to exercise due professional care. With an engagement letter, it provides the client and other third parties with rights of recovery. Therefore, if the CPAs are not performing within the agreement set forth in the contract this will be considered a breach of contract.
Superseded by AICPA Practice Bulletin No. 7 1979 February 26: Personal Financial Statements full-text: Superseded by AICPA Personal Financial Statements Guide 1979 February 26: Project Financing Arrangements full-text: Superseded by FASB Statement No. 47 1979 April 27: Real Estate ADC Costs: Superseded by FASB Statement No. 66 1979 June 21
An engagement letter defines the legal relationship (or engagement) between a professional firm (e.g., law, investment banking, consulting, advisory or accountancy firm) and its client(s). This letter states the terms and conditions of the engagement, principally addressing the scope of the engagement and the terms of compensation for the firm.
Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements no. 16 (SSAE 16) is an auditing standard for service organizations, produced by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Auditing Standards Board, which supersedes Statement on Auditing Standards no. 70 (SAS 70) and has been superseded by SSAE No. 18. [1]
The list also includes titles from the earlier series: AICPA Accounting Guides and AICPA Industry Audit Guides. Links to full-text of the Guides are provided for many of the titles prior to 2000. The Comments column provides references to sections of Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) which complement or supersede a particular Audit and ...
ISAE 3402 is a SOC 1 engagement. SOC is an acronym coined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for service organizations controls, and was re-coined in 2017 as system and organizational controls. AICPA has defined three types of SOC reports: SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3.
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.