The Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association’s Response to the International Auditing and Assurance Standard’s Board’s Invitation to Comment: Enhancing Audit Quality in the Public Interest

  • Christine Earley
  • , Karen Hooks
  • , Jennifer Joe
  • , Paul Polinski
  • , Zabihollah Rezaee
  • , Pamela Roush
  • , Kerri-Ann Sanderson
  • , Yi-Jing Wu

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Abstract

On December 17, 2015, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) issued an Invitation to Comment entitled, Enhancing Audit Quality in the Public Interest: A Focus on Professional Skepticism, Quality Control and Group Audits (hereafter, the ITC). The ITC highlight's the IAASB's discussions regarding the three separate, but related, topics; professional skepticism, quality control, and group audits, in order to solicit feedback on these topics from various stakeholders. The ITC also discusses potential standard-setting activities the IAASB could take to enhance audit quality. The comment period ended on May 16, 2016. This commentary summarizes the contributors' views on selected questions posed in the ITC.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)C1-C25
JournalCurrent Issues in Auditing
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

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