Auditing - THE AUDITOR'S APPROACH TO FAIR VALUE - The auditing standards board issued guidance on auditing GAAP fair value estimates entities report in their financial statements and the role of external valuation specialists in developing those estimates.

PRIVATE COMPANY AUDITING - Advancing the Audit Documentation Standard - SAS no. 103, Audit Documentation, strengthens the provisions SAS no. 96 established for private company audits not long ago. Auditors don't have much time to absorb and implement the new provisions, which are effective for audits of financial statements for periods ending on or after December 15, 2006.

Whittington, Ray, (2006)

GOOD WRITING COUNTS

May, Claire B., (1993)

Financial Reporting - AUDITORS' NEW PROCEDURES FOR DETECTING FRAUD - The ASB issued an exposure draft designed to expand audit procedures to address financial statement fraud. The ED does not change the auditor's existing responsibility to detect fraud in a financial statement audit, but introduces new concepts, requirements and guidance to help him or her meet that responsibility. Practitioners ...

Montgomery, Daniel D., (2002)