Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2006
Source Publication
The CPA Journal
Source ISSN
0732-8435
Abstract
With the issuance of Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) 10, Performance of Review Engagements, which is effective for review engagements for periods ending on or after Dec 15, 2004, the AICPA Accounting and Review Services Committee requires accountants performing review engagements to make inquiries regarding fraud. Furthermore, the management representation letter must address fraud. The authors reviewed the comment letters that the AICPA received in response to the exposure draft for SSARS 10 and conducted a survey of practitioners after the statement was issued. SSARS 10 amends SSARS 1, Compilation and Review of Financial Statements, primarily by expanding inquiries during review engagements to include fraud and by requiring that the management representation letter address fraud. Review engagements provide limited, not positive, assurance. While additional inquiries and disclosures in management's representation letter should be relatively easy to incorporate, the authors could find no substantive reasons for these procedures to be considered necessary.
Recommended Citation
Akers, Michael D. and Gissel, Jodi L., "Fraud Requirements in SSARS 10" (2006). Accounting Faculty Research and Publications. 10.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/account_fac/10
Comments
Published version. The CPA Journal, Vol. 76, No. 4 (April 2006): 34-36. Publisher link. Reprinted from The CPA Journal, April 2006, © 2006, with permission from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
The author of this document, Jodi L. Gissel, published under the name Jodi L. Bellovary at the time of publication.