Proposed statement on standards for accounting and review services : Standards for accounting and review services;Standards for accounting and review services; Exposure draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 2003, Dec. 11

Authors

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting and Review Services Committee

Files

Description

The attached is an exposure draft of a proposed Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) entitled Standards for Accounting and Review Services. The proposed Statement will establish a SSARS hierarchy. The proposed Statement will be beneficial to practitioners by making them aware of the appropriate literature and the various publications' standing in the SSARS hierarchy. In addition, the Statement addresses a technical correction to SSARS No. 2, Reporting on Comparative Financial Statements (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 2, AR sec. 200). SSARS currently provide guidance to be followed when the financial statements of a prior period have been compiled or reviewed by a predecessor accountant whose report is not presented and the successor accountant has not compiled or reviewed those financial statements. This Statement will revise SSARS No. 2 (AR sec. 200.17, footnote 9) to conform with the guidance found in Statement on Auditing Standards No. 58, Reports on Audited Financial Statements (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 508.74, footnote 29), as amended, which states that a successor auditor may name the predecessor auditor if the predecessor auditor's practice was acquired by, or merged with, that of the successor auditor. The proposed Statement would revise SSARS No. 2.

Publication Date

2003

Relational Format

Book

Keywords

Auditing, limited -- United States; Auditors' reports -- Standards -- United States

Disciplines

Accounting | Taxation

Comments

Originally published by: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Copyright and permission to reprint held by: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Recommended Citation

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting and Review Services Committee, "Proposed statement on standards for accounting and review services : Standards for accounting and review services;Standards for accounting and review services; Exposure draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 2003, Dec. 11" (2003). Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position. 307.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_sop/307