Proposed statement on auditing standards : audit sampling;Audit sampling; Exposure draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 1980, Oct. 31

Authors

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

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Description

The proposed SAS provides guidance on the use of sampling in an audit of financial statements. The Statement includes guidance for planning, performing, and evaluating the two general approaches to audit sampling: nonstatistical and statistical. The proposed SAS recognizes that the auditor often is aware of information that allows him to concentrate his effort on account balances and transactions that may be more likely to contain errors or irregularities. The guidance in this proposed SAS should be especially helpful to the auditor who is planning procedures to test balances and transactions about which the auditor has no special knowledge.

Publication Date

1980

Relational Format

Book

Keywords

Auditing -- Statistical methods -- Standards -- United States; Sampling (Statistics)

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. Auditing Standards Board, "Proposed statement on auditing standards : audit sampling;Audit sampling; Exposure draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 1980, Oct. 31" (1980). Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position. 428.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_sop/428