The American Institute of CPAs’ (AICPA) Auditing Standards Board (ASB) has issued the exposure draft (ED), Proposed Quality Management Standards, that includes three interrelated standards that address the way CPA firms manage quality for their accounting and auditing practices. The standards offer a new proactive, risk-based approach to effective quality management systems within CPA firms, which will improve the scalability of the standards and promote a system tailored to the firm and its engagements.

“As the environment in which practitioners offer services becomes more diverse, it’s more important than ever for CPA firms to tailor their quality management processes to their circumstances and maintain and enhance audit quality,” said Tracy Harding, CPA, AICPA Auditing Standards Board Chair. “Our proposed revisions to the quality management standards offer CPA firms a framework for developing a quality management system that addresses each firm’s practice. The framework is converged with international standards so that firms performing engagements under those standards and generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) use a consistent approach to quality management.”

The ED aligns with the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board’s (IAASB) quality management standards. The proposed standards include changes such as using the terms quality management and engagement quality review instead of quality control and engagement quality control review, respectively, used in the current standards.

The three proposed standards are:

Proposed Statement on Quality Management Standards (SQMS) A Firm’s System of Quality Management

Proposed SQMS Engagement Quality Reviews

Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) Quality Management for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards

The proposed standards would supersede Statement on Quality Control Standards No. 8, create a new QM section in AICPA Professional Standards and supersede SAS No. 122, as amended, section 220, Quality Control for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.

Interested parties are encouraged to submit their feedback to the ASB at CommentLetters@aicpa-cima.com by June 11, 2021. The ASB intends to begin addressing feedback at their July 26-29 meeting, and devote the entire August 11 meeting to further consideration of the feedback.

About the AICPA Auditing Standards Board

The ASB is the senior technical committee of the AICPA designated to issue auditing, attestation, and quality control standards applicable to the performance and issuance of audit and attestation reports for non-issuers. Its mission is to develop and communicate comprehensive performance, reporting, and quality control standards and practice guidance to enable auditors of non-issuers to provide high quality, objective audit and attestation services at a reasonable cost and in the best interests of the profession and the beneficiaries of those services, with the ultimate purpose of serving the public interest by improving existing and enabling new audit and attestation services.

About the American Institute of CPAs

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is the world’s largest member association representing the CPA profession, with more than 431,000 members in the United States and worldwide, and a history of serving the public interest since 1887. AICPA members represent many areas of practice, including business and industry, public practice, government, education, and consulting. The AICPA sets ethical standards for its members and U.S. auditing standards for private companies, nonprofit organizations, and federal, state, and local governments. It develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination, offers specialized credentials, builds the pipeline of future talent, and drives professional competency development to advance the vitality, relevance, and quality of the profession.

AICPA美國注冊會計師協會就質量管理相關準則征求意見

美國注冊會計師協會（AICPA）下屬的審計準則委員會（ASB）就質量管理相關準則公開征求意見，共包括三項準則：

會計師事務所質量管理體系（A Firm’s System of Quality Management）

項目質量復核（Engagement Quality Reviews）

根據公認審計準則對審計實施的質量管理（Quality Management for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance With Generally Accepted Auditing Standards）

上述準則通過積極、主動、基于風險導向的新方法增強了質量管理準則的可擴展性，完善了適用于會計師事務所及其業務的質量管理體系，指導會計師事務所實施有效的質量管理體系。

AICPA審計準則委員會表示，多樣化的服務環境要求會計師事務所根據自身情況調整質量管理流程，并提升審計質量。上述準則中的質量管理體系框架與國際準則實現趨同，從而使根據國際準則和公認審計準則執行業務的會計師事務所采用一致的方法進行質量管理。該征求意見稿反饋日期截至2021年6月11日。

（原文鏈接：https://www.aicpa.org/press/pressreleases/2021/aicpa-proposed-new-quality-management-standards-aim-to-enhance-and-maintain-a-cpa-firm-audit-quality.html）

美國注冊會計師協會（AICPA）是美國的全國性會計職業組織，作為全國性會計職業組織美國注冊會計師協會要求所有美國注冊會計師需要遵守職業道德原則，美國注冊會計師應當正直、客觀、獨立、謹慎。職業道德原則表明了美國注冊會計師承擔的責任，也反映了職業道德的基本信條。

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