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;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;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States
An accountant may accept an engagement in which the scope is limited to applying to one or more specified elements, accounts, or items of a financial statement agreed-upon procedures that are not sufficient to enable him to express an opinion on...
This Statement is a codification of and supersedes Statements on Auditing Procedure Nos. 33 through 54 previously issued by the Committee on Auditing Procedure. It incorporates all of the substantive matters covered in those Statements. At the time...
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;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;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...
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;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;Administrative agencies -- United States -- Auditing;Auditing, Internal -- United States;Finance, Public -- Auditing -- Standards -- United States;
This Statement establishes standards for testing and reporting on compliance with laws and regulations in engagements, as defined below, under generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS); Government Auditing Standards; the Single Audit Act of 1984...
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...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Administrative agencies -- United States -- Auditing;Auditing, Internal -- United States;Finance, Public -- Auditing -- Standards -- United States;
This statement establishes standards with respect to testing and reporting on compliance with laws and regulations in engagements, as defined below, under generally accepted auditing standards, Government Auditing Standards, and the Single Audit...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Audited financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Auditing -- Standards;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States;
This Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) changes generally accepted auditing standards by — 1. Prescribing a new form for the auditor's standard report. Most significant among the changes from the previous standard report is (a) the addition of...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- United States;Accounting -- Estimates;
This Statement provides guidance to auditors on obtaining and evaluating sufficient competent evidential matter to support significant accounting estimates in an audit of financial statements in accord-ance with generally accepted auditing...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditing, Analytical review;
This Statement provides guidance on the use of analytical procedures and requires the use of analytical procedures in the planning and overall review stages of all audits.