generally accepted auditing standards profesor juan m. garcía merced
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GENERALLY ACCEPTED AUDITING STANDARDS
Profesor Juan M. García Merced
General Standards
Adequate training and proficiency
Independence
Due professional care
Field Work Standards
Adequate planning and supervision
Understand the client’s internal control
Sufficient competent evidence
Reporting Standards
Indicate whether the financial statements are prepared based on generally accepted accounting principles
Identify deviations regarding consistency
Report instances of inadequate disclosures
Issue an opinion
STATEMENTS ON AUDITING STANDARDS (“SAS”)
• Specific guidance on auditing standards• Interpret the Generally Accepted
Auditing Standards• Most authoritative references• Minimum standards of performance
rather than maximum standards or ideals
QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM
Methods used to ensure that the firm meets its professional responsibilities to clients and others.
Are established for the firm depending on such things as the size, # of offices, type of clients, services.
QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM ELEMENTS
1. Independence, integrity, and objectivity
2. Personnel management– Personnel qualified– Work assigned to who have adequate
training– Personnel should participate in
professional education– Personnel selected for advancement have
the qualifications
QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM ELEMENTS
3. Acceptance and continuance of clients
4. Engagement performance standards
5. Monitoring test compliance
PEER REVIEWS
Review, by CPA’s, of a firm’s compliance with its quality control system.
Members of the AICPA are required to have a peer review every three (3) years
Others - voluntary
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Established in 2002
Functions:– Register public accounting firms of
reporting companies– Establish or adopt auditing, quality control,
ethics, independence, and other standards– Conduct inspections of registered public
accounting firms– Perform other duties to promote standards