Reasonable assurance engagement means an assurance engagement in which the assurance practitioner reduces engagement risk to an acceptably low level in the circumstances of the engagement as the basis for the assurance practitioner’s conclusion. The …

Reliability under the Australian Accounting Standards Board’s Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements means information has the quality of reliability “… when it is free from material error and bias and can be depended upon …

For the purpose of this Guidance Statement, the following term has the meaning attributed below:   Associate means an entity, including an unincorporated entity such as a partnership, over which the investor has significant influence and that is neither a …

For the purposes of this Guidance Statement, the following items have the meanings attributed below: …

Assurance engagement means an engagement in which an assurance practitioner [5] aims to obtain sufficient appropriate evidence in order to express a conclusion designed to enhance the degree of confidence of the intended users other than the responsible …

Auditor means an independent auditor(s) appointed by a life company to meet the prudential reporting requirements under LPS 310 [6] …

Engagement risk means the risk that the assurance practitioner expresses an inappropriate conclusion when the subject matter information is materially …

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

Carve‑out method―method of dealing with the services provided by a subservice organisation, whereby the service organisation’s description of its system includes the nature of the services provided by a subservice organisation, but that subservice …

Complementary user entity controls―controls that the service organisation assumes, in the design of its service, will be implemented by user entities, and which, if necessary to achieve control objectives stated in the service organisation’s description …