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Wiley Practitioner's Guide to GAAS 2020
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Wiley Practitioner's Guide to GAAS 2020

by Joanne M. Flood
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
29h 45m
English
Wiley
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57AT-C 315 Compliance Attestation

Scope

Definitions of Terms

Objectives of an Examination Engagement

Objectives of an Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagement

Requirements—Examination Engagements

Preconditions for Examination Engagements

Written Assertion—Examination Engagements

Reasonable Assurance—Examination Engagement

Procedures—Examination Engagements

Written Representations—Examination Engagements

Forming an Opinion

Practitioner’s Examination Report

Illustration 1. Practitioner’s Examination Report on an Assertion about Compliance; Unmodified Opinion

Modified Opinions

Requirements: Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagement

Preconditions for an Agreed-Upon Engagement

Understanding with Specified Parties

The Agreed-Upon Procedures Report

Illustration 2. Practitioner’s Agreed-Upon Procedures Report Related to Compliance

SCOPE

AT-C 315 provides guidance for engagements related to either:

  • Examining compliance with requirements of specified laws, regulations, rules, contracts, or grants (specified requirements), or
  • Performing agreed-upon procedures related to:
    • compliance with specified requirements or
    • the effectiveness of internal control over compliance with specified requirements.

    (AT-C 315.01)

A practitioner also may be engaged to examine compliance with specified requirements or a written assertion thereon. For example, some electronic funds transfer associations or networks require their members who process transactions to complete a compliance exam.

On every attestation engagement, ...

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