Assurance Engagement
What is Assurance Engagement?
An engagement in which an auditor expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a subject matter against defined criteria to enhance stakeholder confidence.
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What the standards actually require on assurance engagement
Requirements naming assurance engagement across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
The practitioner must meet the relevant ethical requirements for assurance engagements, or professional or legal requirements of equal or greater strictness, as ASAE 3000 requires, independence included.
asae-3100-compliance-engagements-auasb-december-2022::p19 · Paragraph 19 Ethical requirements →GRI Standards assurance + data quality + auditability. ASSURANCE LEVELS: (a) LIMITED ASSURANCE (ISAE 3000) - moderate level of assurance + negative-form opinion + cost-effective; common for sustainability reports + increasingly mandatory under CSRD;
GRI-AssuranceLevels-DataQuality-Auditability · GRI Assurance Levels, Data Quality, Auditability and ISAE 3000/3410 Standards →The service auditor complies with the ethical requirements that apply to assurance engagements, independence included.
isae-3402-assurance-reports-on-controls-at-a-service-organisation::3402.11 · ISAE 3402 paragraph 11: Ethical Requirements →Questions people ask about assurance engagement
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