Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Fraud;Financial statements -- United States;
Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 1, Codification of Auditing Standards and Procedures (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 110.02, "Responsibilities and Functions of the Independent Auditor"), states, "The auditor has a...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Audited financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Corporations -- United States -- Finance -- Automation;Information technology;
This Statement provides guidance on the independent auditors consideration of an entity's internal control in an audit of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. It defines internal control, describes the...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements, Interim -- Standards -- United States;
The purpose of this Statement is to establish standards and provide guidance on the nature, timing, and extent of the procedures to be performed by an independent accountant when conducting a review of interim financial information (as that term is...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Fraud;Financial statements -- United States;
AU Section 110 of Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 1, Codification of Auditing Standards and Procedures, as amended by this Statement [appendix A] (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 110, "Responsibilities and Functions of the...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Derivative securities -- Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Hedging (Finance) -- Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Investments -- Auditing -- Standards -- United States;
This Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) provides guidance to auditors in planning and performing auditing procedures for assertions about derivative instruments, hedging activities, and investments in securities2 that are made in an entity's...
Amendment to Statement on Auditing Standards No. 95, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 150.05; amendment to SAS No. 25, The Relationship of Generally Accepted Auditing Standards to Quality Control...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Audited financial statements -- Standards -- United States;
This section establishes a requirement that the independent auditor obtain written representations from management as a part of an audit of financial statements performed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and provides...
Auditing -- Documentation -- Standards -- United States
The auditor should prepare and maintain audit documentation, the form and content of which should be designed to meet the circumstances of the particular audit engagement. Audit documentation is the principal record of auditing procedures applied,...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditors' reports -- Standards -- United States;
This Statement provides guidance to auditors on restricting the use of reports issued pursuant to Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs). This Statement— • Defines the terms general use and restricted use. • Describes the circumstances in...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Auditing -- Standards;Audited financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Auditing, Internal --Standards -- United States;
This amendment revises the definition and description of internal control contained in SAS No. 55, Consideration of the Internal Control Structure in a Financial Statement Audit, to recognize the definition and description contained in Internal...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States;
This amendment revises Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 50, Reports on the Application of Accounting Principles (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 625), to prohibit an accountant from providing a written report on the...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Fair value -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Disclosure in accounting -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;
The purpose of this Statement is to establish standards and provide guidance on auditing fair value measurements and disclosures contained in financial statements. In particular, this Statement addresses audit considerations relating to the...
An independent auditor plans, conducts, and reports the results of an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS). Auditing standards provide a measure of audit quality and the objectives to be achieved in an audit....
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Securities -- United States -- Accounting;Stocks -- United States -- Accounting;
This amendment reflects the changes for issuance of Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 8, Management's Discussion and Analysis. It also renumbers existing footnotes 22 through 31. This amendment also includes new example...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Communication in accounting -- Standards -- United States;
Withdrawal of Statement on Auditing Standards No. 75, Engagements to Apply Agreed-Upon Procedures to Specified Elements, Accounts, or Items of a Financial Statement, AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 622; Amendment to SAS No. 58,...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Communication in accounting -- Standards -- United States;
This Statement provides guidance on communications between predecessor and successor auditors when a change of auditors is in process or has taken place. It also provides communications guidance when possible misstatements are discovered in...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Service industries -- United States -- Auditing;
This amendment clarifies the applicability of Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70, Reports on the Processing of Transactions by Service Organizations (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 324), by replacing existing language with...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Securities -- United States -- Auditing;Stocks -- United States -- Auditing;Auditing -- Standards -- United States;
This Statement provides guidance to auditors in auditing investments in securities, that is, debt securities and equity securities,1 and investments accounted for under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 18, The Equity Method of Accounting for...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Customer relations;
n accordance with AU section 310.05, the auditor should establish an understanding with the client regarding the services to be performed for each engagement. That understanding should be documented, preferably in an engagement letter or other...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Administrative agencies -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Finance, Public -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;
In October 1999, AICPA Council passed a resolution recognizing the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) as the body designated to establish generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for federal governmental entities under Rule...
