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AS No. 1: References in Auditors’ Reports to the Standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

AS No. 3: Audit Documentation

AS No. 4: Reporting on Whether a Previously Reported Material Weakness Continues to Exist

AS No. 5: An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That Is Integrated with An Audit of Financial Statements

AS No. 6: Evaluating Consistency of Financial Statements

AS No. 7: Engagement Quality Review

AS No. 8: Audit Risk

AS No. 9: Audit Planning

AS No. 10: Supervision of the Audit Engagement

AS No. 11: Consideration of Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit

AS No. 12: Identifying and Assessing Risks of Material Misstatement

AS No. 13: The Auditor's Responses to the Risks of Material Misstatement

AS No. 14: Evaluating Audit Results

AS No. 15: Audit Evidence

AS No. 16: Communications with Audit Committees

AU Section 100 - Statements on Auditing Standards -- Introduction

AU Section 200 - The General Standards

AU Section 300 - The Standards of Field Work

AU Section 400 - The First, Second, and Third Standards of Reporting

AU Section 500 - The Fourth Standard of Reporting

AU Section 600 - Other Types of Reports

AU Section 700 - Special Topics

AU Section 800 - Compliance Auditing

AU Section 900 - Special Reports of the Committee on Auditing Procedures

[The following paragraph was effective for audits of fiscal periods ending after June 15, 1992. It was amended, effective for audits of fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2010. See PCAOB Release No. 2010-004.

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For the evidence obtained to be competent, it must be reliable and relevant. Factors affecting the reliability of confirmations are discussed in paragraphs .16 through .27. The relevance of evidence depends on its relationship to the financial statement assertion being addressed. Section 326 classifies financial statement assertions into five categories:

Existence or occurrence
Completeness
Rights and obligations
Valuation or allocation
Presentation and disclosure

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