STATEMENT ON AUDITING PROCEDURE
NOVEMBER 1972
53
Reporting on Consistency and Accounting Changes
(Supersedes Chapter 8 of Statement on Auditing Procedure No. 33)
CONTENTS
Paragraph Number
Introduction 1
Consistency Standard 2-19
Accounting Changes Affecting Consistency 7-12
Change in accounting principle 7
Change in the reporting entity 8-10
Correction of an error in principle 11
Change in principle inseparable from
change in estimate 12
Changes Not Affecting Consistency 13-18
Change in accounting estimate 13
Error correction not involving principle 14 Changes in classification and reclassifi-cations 15
Substantially different transactions or
events 16
Issued by the Committee on Auditing Procedure American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
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