You may be familiar with SAS 70: an audit standard used for businesses that provide a service relating to their clients’ finances. If you feel like you just figured out SAS 70 audits, I’m sorry to say ...

IMGCAP(1)]This year the SSAE 16 assessment standard will replace the SAS 70 audit standard. It seems that there really is no rest for the weary. The direct impact of this change might be uncertain for ...

Think you need a SAS 70 report — or its replacement, the SSAE No. 16 — to demonstrate your credentials? You may… but maybe not. Service Organization Controls (SOC) reports are designed to help service ...

IMGCAP(1)]Last month, the AICPA issued a set of standards that CPAs who do assurance engagements at service companies should examine carefully. The AICPA s Statement on Standards for Attestation ...

New attest standards go into effect on June 15, 2011, and the auditors of service organizations will have to change the way they report to their clients and their clients’ customer organizations.

New attestation standards go into effect on June 15, 2011, and as a result, auditors of service organizations will have to change the way they report to their clients. A company that outsources a ...

Prior to 2011, customers (user entities) who engaged third-party service providers (service organizations) to perform functions and/or processes that impacted the user entities’ internal control over ...

Ann Arbor-based Online Tech Inc. said last week that it has achieved SSAE 16 Type II certification for its Ann Arbor and Mid-Michigan data centers. SSAE 16 is the second generation data center audit ...

US data center provider QTS (Quality Technology Services), announced that all of its data centers previously certified by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) audit program have ...

As a CPA with 20+ years of experience, I'm a big supporter of accountability and company audits. (See a related story on page 10 on benefit plan audits.) Early in my career as an auditor, I made a ...

Usually we in commercial real estate are primarily concerned with financing, developing and building. On the accounting side, sure, there is a significant amount of audit and tax advisory work on ...

SECAUCUS, NJ--(Marketwire -08/22/12)- FiberMedia Group, LLC, a leading data center services provider with facilities throughout the New York metropolitan area and Cleveland, OH, announces today that ...