STATEMENT ON AUDITING STANDARDS (SAS) no. 96, Audit Documentation, marks the first big change in the requirements auditors must observe when documenting their audit work. It provides general guidance ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board intends to update some of its older auditing standards, some of which it inherited two decades ago from the American Institute of CPAs after passage of ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board adopted a number of amendments and proposed updates to strengthen some of its rules and standards — including some that haven't been looked at in nearly ...

Auditing of internal control over financial reporting, a topic that has received a lot of attention from the PCAOB this year, is among the key risk factors for the 2013 audit cycle, according to a new ...

In most cases, auditors simply cannot look at every transaction that makes up a company's financial statements. As such, technical audit procedures are designed to ensure that the auditor can express ...

The importance of developing an audit program that includes thorough procedures to audit cash balances, or cash receipts, is important because it can affect an organization's profits. The auditor must ...