Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;
This statement provides guidance for an independent auditor practicing in the United States who is engaged to report on the financial statements of a U.S. entity that have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in...
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;Financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Securities -- United States -- Accounting
When an independent accountant's report is included in registration statements, proxy statements, or periodic reports filed under the federal securities statutes, the accountant's responsibility, generally, is in substance no different from that...
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;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;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...
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;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;Specialists;Financial statements -- United States -- Auditing;
The purpose of this Statement is to provide guidance to the auditor who uses the work of a specialist in performing an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. For purposes of this Statement, a specialist is a person (or...
This Statement provides guidance in identifying and reporting conditions that relate to an entity's internal control structure observed during an audit of financial statements. It is contemplated that the communication would generally be to the...
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...
