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Accounting firms offer a wide range of professional services to their clients, including audit, review, other assurance, and related services. These services are regulated, with many jurisdictions requiring compliance with international standards or national requirements that have been based on international ones. High-quality international standards increase the comparability, consistency, clarity, credibility, and transparency of financial information. And, high-quality financial information, in turn, increases the stability of the global financial infrastructure. See the full overview.
Auditor Reporting Standards Implementation: Key Audit Matters
by Christopher Arnold, Head of SME/SMP and Research, IFAC and Dawn McGeachy, Principal, Colby McGeachy Professional Corporation | December 13, 2017
Implementation support for the new and revised IAASB Auditor Reporting standards, including links to Key Audit Matters (KAM) examples.
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Enhancing Audit Documentation
Ed Fox, Global Head–Audit Quality at Grant Thornton International, discusses the findings from external regulators on the quality of audit documentation and provides his recommendations on how firms can address re-performance requirements, timing...
by Ed Fox, Global Head-Audit Quality, Grant Thornton International | October 2, 2018
Best Practice Principles for Audit Tendering
Guidance and best practice principles on audit tendering in both the public and private sectors.
by Alice Telfer, Head of Business and Public Sector, ICAS and David Wood, Senior Policy Director, ICAS | October 2, 2018
Audit Quality Indicators
Quality control is about controlling the quality of what is delivered.
by Sue Almond, Global Head of Assurance, Grant Thornton International | September 7, 2018
Professional Skepticism: The Heart of Audit
Enhancing skepticism requires action on the part of auditors, audit committees, management, standard-setters and many others.
by Katharine Bagshaw, Manager, Auditing Standards, ICAEW | September 6, 2018
Resource Roundup: Implementation Support for Small- and Medium-Sized Practices
Are you a practitioner working with a small or medium-sized firm—IFAC has an extensive suite of implementation support to assist you with the effective and efficient application of international standards.
by Christopher Arnold, Head of SME/SMP and Research, IFAC and Dawn McGeachy, Principal, Colby McGeachy Professional Corporation | August 1, 2018News and Resources
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Guide to Using International Standards on Auditing in the Audits of Small- and Medium-Sized Entities, Fourth Edition
IFAC - July 25, 2018
IAASB Modernizes Auditing of Accounting Estimates in Support of Audit Quality
International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board - October 3, 2018
Internal Audit: To Outsource or Not?
ICAS - September 24, 2018
How Robotic Process Automation Is Transforming Accounting and Auditing
The CPA Journal - September 24, 2018
Enhanced Audit Reporting–The Profession in APAC Calls for Better Awareness and Education
Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants - September 10, 2018
Cybersecurity Risk: Time for Auditors to Take Heed?
Chartered Accountants Worldwide - September 10, 2018
Accounting Education Insights: Unconscious Bias and Professional Skepticism
International Accounting Education Standards Board - August 21, 2018Get The Latest. Sent twice monthly.
