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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