What are Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS)? A set of standards and principles that ensures a company's audit conforms to set quality standards and meets the audit's objectives. The ...

The objective of the reporting phase of a financial audit is to present an informed opinion about a business's financial statements, including whether they conform to generally accepted accounting ...

When a public company issues a financial statement, everything needs to be clear and well-understood by everyone reading it. To ensure this, it’s paramount to have a baseline for reporting. That’s ...

THE GAO AMENDED THE AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE provisions of its generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS). Originally, the amendment was to be effective for audits beginning on or after ...

FEW ISSUES INVOLVING THE PREPARATION of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles have been more elusive and difficult to address and resolve—or of greater ...

If you run a small business, you may not know much about the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). After all, GAAP standards apply mainly to publicly traded companies, so these rules don’t ...