Audit&Assurance Ireneo-Summary Notes
Audit&Assurance Ireneo-Summary Notes
Attestation Engagements
Is an engagement in which practitioner is
engaged to issue, or does issue, a written
communication that expresses a conclusion
about the reliability of written assertion that
is the responsibility of another party.
There must be an agreed-upon and
objective criteria that can be utilized to
assess the accuracy of the assertion.
The assertion must be amendable to
verification by an independent party.
Independent Audit Engagements-
provides a reasonable (but not absolute)
level of assurance
Review Engagement- limited investigation
of much narrower scope than audit and
undertaken for the purpose of providing
limited assurance
International
International Accounting Standards
Board (IASB): international counterpart of
the FRSC, replaces International
Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)
International Auditing and Assurance
Standards Board (IAASB): International
counterpart of the AASC, replaces
International Auditing Practices Committee
(IAPC)