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;Auditing, Internal -- United States
This Statement describes the procedures an independent accountant should apply in connection with various types of engagements to report on an entity's system of internal accounting control, and it describes the different forms of the accountant's...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- United States -- Data processing
1. This amendment adds to the list of required planning considerations in paragraph 3 (as new item c) the methods used by the entity to process significant accounting information. It also adds a new paragraph 9, summarizing those aspects of...
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;Stocks -- United States -- Accounting;Securities -- United States -- Accounting
1. The services of independent certified public accountants include examination of financial statements and schedules contained in registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) under the Securities Act of 1933...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditing, Internal;Auditing -- Data processing
1. Section 320, "The Auditor's Study and Evaluation of Internal Control," of Statement on Auditing Standards No. 1 defines internal control in terms of administrative control and accounting control. That section also sets forth the basic concepts...
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;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...
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;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;Financial statements -- Auditing -- Standards;Audited financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Auditing, Internal --Standards -- United States;
This Statement provides guidance on the independent auditor's consideration of an entity's internal control structure in an audit of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.1 It describes the elements of an...
