Reporting on an Examination of Controls at a Service Organization Relevant to User Entities' Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (SOC 1®)
This attestation guide is designed to help service auditors perform a SOC 1® examination under AT-C section 320.
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Guidance for a SOC 1® engagement
This guide is a critical resource for practitioners engaged to examine and report on a service organization’s controls over the services it provides to user entities when those controls are likely to be relevant to user entities’ internal control over financial reporting (that is, a SOC 1® engagement).
This guide assists practitioners in:
- Planning and performing a SOC 1 engagement
- Understanding how a user auditor uses a type 1 or type 2 report
- Reporting on the engagement
This guide also contains:
- Guidance on procedures the practitioner performs in this engagement and the report the service auditor issues.
- Numerous illustrative paragraphs that would be added to the service auditor’s report when the service auditor qualifies or disclaims an opinion.
- Guidance for reporting when the service organization presents a subservice organization using the inclusive method or the carve-out method.
Recent updates
This edition of the guide has been revised to:
- Include updates from SAS No. 145, Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement.
- Provide further understanding of several topics, such as subservice organizations, software-as-a-service providers, and the reasonableness of control objectives.
- Add examples of procedures the service auditor may perform.
- Add an example of a separate paragraph that would be added to the service auditor's report when a description of key system outputs is omitted.
- Identify additional resources that may be helpful to service auditors.
Who Will Benefit
- Service auditors performing a SOC 1® engagement.
- Auditors of the financial statements of entities that use a service organization.
Key Topics
- Service auditors performing a SOC 1® engagement.
- Auditors of the financial statements of entities that use a service organization.
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