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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 |
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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.
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Received: 24 April 2015
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