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CPA Voice: Are you ready for your next peer review?
Written on Jun 1, 2023
The profession’s peer review program has faced new challenges in the pandemic environment, changing work methods and more.
“Continued from prior years, noncompliance with SAS No. 145 and its changes to AU-C 315, Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement, remains a priority, particularly due to increasing fraud risks in the current environment,” writes Laura Hay, CPA, CAE, executive vice president of OSCPA.
Hay writes that SAS No. 145 introduced inherent risk factors and new requirements to consider those factors that affect an assertion’s susceptibility to material misstatement.
“A common misconception is that sufficient procedures can be performed to support the audit opinion, particularly for a smaller entity, without a consideration of risks or how audit procedures are linked to those risks,” she writes.
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