Goodwill (Commerce) -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
The paper traces the development of the current valuation concept of goodwill from 1900 to 1970, when the present position was articulated. The paper suggests that there may be alternative bases for goodwill valuation and concludes that additional...
Announcements include Hourglass Award, table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1989, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1989, The Accounting Review Oct. 1989, Contemporary Accounting Research spring 1989. The individuals listed...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditor's reports -- Standards -- United States;Auditing, Internal -- Standards -- United States;Service industries -- United States -- Auditing
This Statement provides guidance on the independent auditor's use of a special-purpose report on certain aspects of internal accounting control of an organization that provides certain services to a client whose financial statements he has been...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditing -- Statistical methods -- Standards -- United States;Sampling (Statistics)
Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items within an account balance or class of transactions for the purpose of evaluating some characteristic of the balance or class.1 This Statement provides...
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;Service industries -- United States -- Auditing;
This Statement provides guidance on the factors an independent auditor should consider when auditing the financial statements of an entity that uses a service organization to process certain transactions. This Statement also provides guidance for...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditing, Internal -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;
The auditor considers many factors in determining the nature, timing, and extent of auditing procedures to be performed in an audit of an entity's financial statements. One of the factors is the existence of an internal audit function.1 This...
