Auditing Standards Committee

Comment Letters Issued by the Auditing Standards Committee
July 2003 – Present
Please Note: Beginning in Fall 2008, watch for comment letters
to appear in the Current Issues in Accounting journal.

Letter Issued To: Topic Date
European Commission European Commission Green Paper on Audit Policy: Lessons from the Crisis. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 5, Issue 1, pages C1-C7. 2011
PCAOB Rulemaking Docket Matter No. 26: Re-Proposed Auditing Standards Related to the Auditor’s Assessment of and Response to Risk: Proposed Conforming Amendments to PCAOB Standards. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 4, Issue 1, pages C27-C34. 2010
IASB IIA's Exposure Draft of 2010 International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 5, Issue 2, pages C1-C4. 2010
IAASB Proposed International Standards on Auditing, Revisions to ISA 315 and ISA 610 2010
PCAOB Rulemaking Docket Matter No. 26: Proposed Auditing Standards Related to the Auditor’s Assessment of and Response to Risk: Proposed Conforming Amendments to PCAOB Standards. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 3, Issue 1, pages C1-C7. 2009
ASB Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards—Initial Audit Engagements, Including Re-audits—Opening Balances (to Supersede Statement on Auditing Standards No. 84, Communications Between Predecessor and Successor Auditors). Current Issues in Auditing Volume 3, Issue 2, pages C1-C3. 2009
PCAOB Rulemaking Docket Matter No. 028: Concept Release on Possible Revisions to the PCAOB’s Standard on Audit Confirmations. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 3, Issue 2, pages C4-C10. 2009
PCAOB Rulemaking Docket Matter No. 029: Concept Release on Requiring the Engagement Partner to Sign the Audit Report. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 3, Issue 2, pages C11-C15. 2009
ASB Proposed Standard on Auditing Standards—External Confirmations. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 3, Issue 2, pages C16-C18. 2009
PCAOB Rulemaking Docket Matter No. 025: Proposed Auditing Standard-Engagement Quality Review. Current Issues in Auditing Volume 2, Issue 2, pages C1-C4. 2008
IAASB Proposed International Standards on Auditing, Revisions to ISA 315 and ISA 610. 2008
PCAOB Letter to the PCAOB on Rulemaking Docket 021: Proposed Auditing Standard – An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting that is Integrated with an Audit of Financial Statements. February 23, 2007
AICPA Letter to the AICPA on Omnibus Proposal of Professional Ethics Division Interpretations and Rulings. October 31, 2006
PCAOB PCAOB Docket 017: Proposed Ethics and Independence Rules Concerning Independence, Tax Services, and Contingent Fees February 10, 2005
PCAOB Proposed Auditing Standard on Audit Documentation and Proposed Amendment to Interim Auditing Standards January 6, 2004
PCAOB An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting Performed in Conjunction With An Audit of Financial Statements November 17, 2003
COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework October 1, 2003

Practice Advisory Council

Chair
John Fogarty
Deloitte LLP

Members
Trevor Stewart
Deloitte LLP

Michael C. Hrapsky
Financial Mgt and Assurance
U.S. Government Accountability Office

Craig Crawford
KPMG LLP

Susan Jones
Grant Thornton LLP

Jim Sylph
International Federation of Accountants

Sue Lister
BDO Seidman

Scott Showalter
KPMG

Dan Montgomery
Ernst & Young, LLP

Robert Dohrer
McGladrey & Pullen LLP

Chuck Landes
AICPA

Jim Lee
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Brenda Lovell
Institute of Internal Auditors

 

Journal

Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory

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5-yr Impact Factor: 4.253
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SJR: 2.417
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Current Issues in Auditing

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Midyear Meeting

The 2020 Auditing Section Midyear Meeting was a huge success!

Thank you for joining us for the 2020 Auditing Section Midyear Meeting which was be held in Houston, Texas at the Hyatt Regency Houston on January 16-18, 2020.

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Research

»AOS Conference on Accounting for Sustainability and Climate Change Call for Papers: Governments, regulators, businesses, and capital markets increasingly recognize that society is facing a planetary emergency, as evidenced by unprecedented levels of climate change and biodiversity loss, and that the effects of these crises will pose major risks to organizations’ operations and create demand for new products and services. There are many novel challenges and opportunities for accounting to help organizations navigate a range of these interacting sustainability issues. Submit electronically at the Accounting, Organizations and Society website, along with a cover letter indicating a conference submission. The deadline is June 15, 2021.  
»24th Illinois Symposium on Auditing Research Call for Papers: The Symposium brings top audit scholars together to discuss interesting, current audit research. Papers should address audit research questions that advance our current knowledge and that employ any rigorous research method. Papers on all audit and assurance-related topics are welcome and high-quality, innovative topics, data, subjects, and methods are particularly encouraged. Addiitonally, The 4th Illinois Audit Doctoral Consortium will include presentations from two top audit scholars and research presentations from three to four doctoral students. Consortium attendees are invited to stay for the Symposium.The deadline is June 10, 2020. Submission instructions available here.

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