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Audit Committee Communications; Statement On Auditing Standards, 090, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Executive Committee
Audit Committee Communications; Statement On Auditing Standards, 090, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Executive Committee
Statements on Auditing Standards
This amendment revises Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 61, Communication With Audit Committees (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1, AU sec. 380.03), and adds a new paragraph to SAS No. 61 (AU sec. 380.11) to reflect recommendation number 8 in the 1999 report of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees. This amendment requires an auditor of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) clients to discuss with audit committees the auditor's judgments about the quality, not just the acceptability, of the company's accounting principles and underlying estimates in its financial statements. The new language is shown …