Requesting parties means third party underwriter(s) and/or other parties involved with the entity’s securities offering (such as financial intermediaries, buyers, sellers, brokers or selling agents or group or component auditors) that have agreed to be …

Responsible party of the entity means those charged with governance of the entity (ordinarily the Board of Directors) who are responsible for the preparation of the offering document, and who engage the auditor to issue a comfort letter to the requesting …

Underwriter means any person or their agent who has purchased, or intends to purchase securities from an issuer with a view to, or offers or sells for an issuer in connection with, the distribution of any security, or participates or has a direct or …

Underwriting agreement means a formal agreement between the underwriter(s) and the responsible party of the entity with respect to the entity’s offering document.  It may specify the form and content of the comfort letter to be requested of the auditor, …

For the purposes of this Auditing Standard, the following terms have the meanings attributed below: …

Engagement partner [3] – The partner or other individual, appointed by the firm, who is responsible for the audit engagement and its performance, and for the auditor’s report that is issued on behalf of the firm, and who, where required, has the …

Engagement quality review – An objective evaluation of the significant judgements made by the engagement team and the conclusions reached thereon, performed by the engagement quality reviewer and completed on or before the date of the engagement …

Engagement quality reviewer – A partner, other individual in the firm, or an external individual, appointed by the firm to perform the engagement quality …

[Deleted by the AUASB. Refer Aus 12.1] …

Engagement team – All partners and staff performing the audit engagement, and any other individuals who perform audit procedures on the engagement, excluding an auditor’s external expert [4] . [5] …