Statement on auditing standards, 079

              Statement on
Auditing Standards
Issued by the Auditing Standards Board
AICPA
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
December 1995
79
Amendment to Statement on
Auditing Standards No. 58,
Reports on Audited
Financial Statements
( Amends Statement on Auditing Standards No. 58, AICPA, Professional
Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 508.)
Introduction
1. This Statement amends Statement on Auditing Standards ( SAS)
No. 58, Reports on Audited Financial Statements, to eliminate the
requirement that, when certain criteria are met, the auditor add an
uncertainties explanatory paragraph to the auditor's report. It also clari­fies
and reorganizes the guidance in SAS No. 58 concerning emphasis
paragraphs, uncertainties, and disclaimers of opinion. This Statement is
effective for reports issued or reissued on or after February 29, 1996.
Earlier application of the provisions of this Statement is permissible.
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