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How new standards for auditors will likely affect the governments they audit.

Government Finance Review

| June 01, 2007 | Gauthier, Stephen J. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In December 2005, the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants issued Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 103, Audit Documentation. Two months later, in February 2006, the ASB released a set of eight pronouncements (SAS Nos. 104111) dealing with various aspects of the assessment of risk in a financial statement audit that are commonly referred to as the "risk-assessment suite." May of that same year saw the release of SAS No. 112, Communicating Internal Control Related Matters Identified in an Audit. Normally, the issuance of new auditing standards is largely, if not exclusively, of concern to audit professionals. These ...

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