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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.
Accounting by Health and Maintenance Organizations and Associated Entities full-text: Superseded by SOP 89-5 1985 December 11: Accounting for: no load mutual fund distribution fees full-text: 1986 February 14: Accounting for Estimated Credit Losses on Loan Portfolios full-text: incorporated in Audits of finance Companies: 1986 March 6
Special-Purpose Reports on Internal Accounting Control at Service Organizations full-text: December 1982 45: Omnibus Statement on Auditing Standards-1983 full-text: August 1983 46: Consideration of Omitted Procedures After the Report Date full-text: September 1983 47: Audit Risk and Materiality in Conducting an Audit full-text: December 1983 48
See also ASC sections 960 (Plan Accounting--Defined Benefit Pension Plans), 962 (Plan Accounting--Defined Contribution Pension Plans), 965 (Plan Accounting--Health and Welfare Benefit Plans) 21-24: 2011: Employee benefit plans, with conforming changes as of March 1, 2011
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.
A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out routine operations. [1] SOPs aim to achieve efficiency, quality output, and uniformity of performance, while reducing miscommunication and failure to comply with industry regulations .
The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council then voiced its concerns due to the increase of financial reporting guidance from the old U.S. GAAP standards, and the FASB responded by launching a new project to codify the standards. The project was approved in September 2004 by the Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation. [2]
Practitioner’s specialist, who "possesses expertise in a field other than accounting or attestation", who assists in gathering evidence. SSAE 18 also identifies other relevant roles not directly engaged in the audit: [18] AICPA, which publishes the audit standards and code of ethics that the responsible or engaged parties are expected to follow;