SSAE 16 Presentation

Newel Linford has been asked to speak on SSAE 16 at the Fort Collins chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) on December 8, 2010 at 6 pm. If you would like to attend this meeting and you are not a member of the IIA, please send an e-mail to me at newel@linfordco.com and I will forward it on to the meeting organizers.

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SSAE 16 Management’s Written Assertion

It was a few years ago while I was a senior manager at a big four firm that the CTO did not want to sign the letter of representations related to the SAS 70 audit. This was an executive at one of the world’s largest companies, and yes it was/is a public company. After reading the boiler plate letter from the AICPA, he went into a rant and said “[h]ow do I know the controls are working? I...

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