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Auditing (Finance)

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DEFINITION: SAS 70 (the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70) defines the standards an auditor must employ in order to assess the contracted internal controls of a service organization. Service organizations, such as hosted data centers, insurance claims processors, and credit processing companies, provide outsourcing  … 
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AUDITING (FINANCE) DEFINITION (continued): …  services that affect the operation of the contracting enterprise. The SAS 70 was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as a simplification of a set of criteria for auditing standards originally defined in 1988.

Under SAS 70, auditor reports are classified as either Type I or Type II. In a Type I report, the auditor evaluates the efforts of a service organization to prevent accounting inconsistencies, errors, and misrepresentation, and the likelihood that those … 
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