The document compares four types of assurance services:
1) Financial statement audits provide high assurance and express an opinion on whether financial statements are fairly presented.
2) Reviews of financial statements provide moderate assurance and report on whether anything indicates the statements are not fairly presented.
3) Agreed-upon procedures involve carrying out procedures agreed with the client and reporting factual findings without assurance.
4) Compilations of financial statements involve assembling statements based on client data without assurance.
The document compares four types of assurance services:
1) Financial statement audits provide high assurance and express an opinion on whether financial statements are fairly presented.
2) Reviews of financial statements provide moderate assurance and report on whether anything indicates the statements are not fairly presented.
3) Agreed-upon procedures involve carrying out procedures agreed with the client and reporting factual findings without assurance.
4) Compilations of financial statements involve assembling statements based on client data without assurance.
The document compares four types of assurance services:
1) Financial statement audits provide high assurance and express an opinion on whether financial statements are fairly presented.
2) Reviews of financial statements provide moderate assurance and report on whether anything indicates the statements are not fairly presented.
3) Agreed-upon procedures involve carrying out procedures agreed with the client and reporting factual findings without assurance.
4) Compilations of financial statements involve assembling statements based on client data without assurance.
The document compares four types of assurance services:
1) Financial statement audits provide high assurance and express an opinion on whether financial statements are fairly presented.
2) Reviews of financial statements provide moderate assurance and report on whether anything indicates the statements are not fairly presented.
3) Agreed-upon procedures involve carrying out procedures agreed with the client and reporting factual findings without assurance.
4) Compilations of financial statements involve assembling statements based on client data without assurance.
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Audit of FS Review of FS Agreed-upon procedure Compilation of FS
To enable the practitioner to
report whether anything has To carry out audit procedures To assist the client in the To express an opinion on the come to their attention that agreed on with the client and any Objective preparation of financial financial statements would indicate that the financial appropriate third parties identified statements statements are not presented in the report fairly Level of Assurance High/reasonable assurance Moderate/limited assurance None None
Description of procedures Identification of financial
Type of report issued Positive assurance (opinion) Negative assurance performed and factual findings information complied Inquiry and analytical procedures. It does not include Risk assessment procedures, Assemble financial assessing control risk, test of Basic procedures tests of controls and substantive As agreed. statements based on records and of responses to procedures client’s data inquiries by obtaining corroborating evidence. Independence Required Required Not required Not required Types of Assurance Service
Assertions made by the That the organization has That the organization’s activities That the financial statements are fairly auditee complied with law, regulations, are conducted effectively and presented or contracts efficiently Established criteria Financial reporting standards or other Objectives set by the board of Laws, regulations and contract financial reporting framework directors Content of the Auditors An opinion about whether the financial Reports on the degree of report statements are fairly presented in Recommendations or suggestions compliance, with applicable conformity with an identified financial on how to improve operations laws, regulations and contract reporting framework Auditors who generally External auditors Government auditors Internal auditors perform Comparison among different types of audit