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Introduces statistical and nonstatistical sampling approaches, and features case studies illustrating the use of different sampling methods, including classical variables sampling and monetary unit sampling, in real-world situations.

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This guide addresses how to use nonstatistical and statistical sampling approaches to evaluate characteristics of a balance or class of transactions and to obtain audit evidence.
This guide was updated to reflect rapid changes in the audit environment and to provide technical professional knowledge for auditors in audit sampling practice for improved efficiency and effectiveness of actual practice

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AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE, NOW UPDATED!

Updated as of December 1, 2019, this guide continues to be an indispensable resource packed with information on sampling requirements and methods.

This guide introduces statistical and nonstatistical sampling approaches, and features case studies illustrating the use of different sampling methods, including classical variables sampling and monetary unit sampling, in real-world situations.

Updates:

AU-C sections 200, 230, 265, 300, 315, 320, 330, 450, 505, 520, 530, 700, 720, 940

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Auditors, investigators, management oversight personnel

Lynford Graham

CPA, Ph.D., CFE

“Lynford Graham, CPA, Ph.D., CFE is a CPA with more than 35 years of audit practice and policy development experience. He is a visiting professor of accountancy at Bentley University in Waltham MA. Dr. Graham is a member of the AICPA and a past member of the Auditing Standards Board. He chaired the task forces for AICPA Guides Assessing Audit Risk and Audit Sampling. He is also the chair of the Auditing Revenue Task Force for the AICPA Guide on Revenue Recognition. He was a partner and National Director of Audit Policy for BDO, LLP. Prior to that, Dr. Graham was an associate professor at Rutgers University. Before Rutgers, he was a national accounting and SEC consulting partner at Coopers & Lybrand, responsible for technical issues research, auditing research, and sampling. A Certified Fraud Examiner, in 2002, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the auditing section of the AAA. He is a co-author of several award-winning academic research papers. Dr. Graham holds an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, (Wharton School). He is the editor of Accountants’ Handbook, 12th Edition (Wiley, 2012) and Internal Control: Audit and Compliance (Wiley, 2015).”

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Lynford Graham

Lynford Graham is a CPA with more than 30 years of public accounting experience in audit practice and in various National Firm policy development groups. He is a Visiting Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University in Waltham MA, a consultant on professional accounting and auditing matters and an author.

Dr. Graham is a member of the AICPA and a member of the Auditing Standards Board from 2001-2005. He served as a member of the AICPA’s Materiality and Audit Risk Task Force (SAS 47), was a founding member of the AICPA’s Information Technology Section, serving on its Executive Committee, and was a member of the AICPA’s Statistical Sampling Subcommittee during the development of SAS 39 on Audit Sampling. He was the principle author and Chair of the Task Force clearing the 2008, 2012 and 2014 revisions of the AICPA Audit Guide Audit Sampling.

Dr. Graham was a Partner and the National Director of Audit Policy for BDO Seidman, LLP, responsible for the development and implementation of audit policy and software, as well as Assurance Services Learning and Education programs, and was the Firm’s Sampling Coordinator. He served on several International BDO task forces developing audit software, audit methodology, sampling approaches and audit automation techniques.