The Board adopted eight auditing standards and related amendments that are designed to benefit investors by establishing requirements that enhance the effectiveness of the auditor’s assessment of and response to the risks of material misstatement in an audit. Assessing and responding to risks underlies the entire audit process. The risk assessment standards that the PCAOB is replacing were part of the Board’s interim standards and were in large part written twenty to thirty years ago. In adopting the new Risk Assessment Standards, the Board intended to build upon and improve the risk framework that was already established by the interim standards, rather than replacing that framework altogether.
75 Federal Register 82417 (December 30, 2010)
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