Title
A Study of Compliance of Oil and Gas Companies' Audit Reports with the Reporting Model Provided by Auditing Standard No. 5
Document Type
Article
Department or Administrative Unit
Accounting
Publication Date
Fall 2012
Abstract
In response to business failures and scandals citing accounting and auditing inadequacies and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was established to assume the role of standard-setting for public companies. One of its standards, Auditing Standard No. 2 (AS No. 2), An Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting Performed in Conjunction with an Audit of Financial Statements, revised the structure and content used in the auditor's standard report. Specifically, AS No. 2 required two opinions on internal control as well as an opinion on the financial statements. The purpose of this Standard was to integrate the auditor's consideration of an entity's internal controls with the audit of its financial statements. In spite of changes implemented by AS No. 2, auditors acknowledged that, for a variety of reasons, this Standard did not fully achieve its objective of an integrated audit.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, James H., Thomas G. Hodge, and Audrey Koski. (Fall 2012). A Study of Compliance of Oil and Gas Companies' Audit Reports with the Reporting Model Provided by Auditing Standard No. 5. Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, 61(1):65-78.
Journal
Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly
Comments
This article was originally published in Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly.