Review of the Latest Development of International Auditing Report Standard: Based on the Analytical Structure of Expectation Distance, Information Gap, and Communication Gap
LIU Mu-hua, CAI Li, LIU Yao, YU Yu
College of Economics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060
Abstract:On Jan. 15, 2015, the international auditing and verification standards board officially issued the revised auditing report standard, which ended the use of 80-year-old short-form auditing report mode and ushered in a new era of using the long-form auditing report mode. The latter is expected to have far-reaching influence on the auditing profession. The new standard made a lot of efforts in narrowing the expectation distance, information gap, and communication gap, but we may still encounter a lot of challenges and problems in its implementation. Only when the ideas behind the standard revision are carried out in practice can the new standard have expected effect.
柳木华, 蔡丽, 刘耀, 余宇. 国际审计报告准则的最新发展述评——基于期望差、信息差和沟通差的分析框架[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2015, 32(5): 59-66.
LIU Mu-hua, CAI Li, LIU Yao, YU Yu. Review of the Latest Development of International Auditing Report Standard: Based on the Analytical Structure of Expectation Distance, Information Gap, and Communication Gap. , 2015, 32(5): 59-66.
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