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Explain the impact of use of an external service provider to process financial statement transactions on the audit of the entity’s financial statements.
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Explain the options which are available to the auditor of the user entity’s financial statements to obtain information about the design of internal controls over financial reporting at the service organization.
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List the kind of report that could the auditor of the user entity obtain from the service organization, if the user auditor needed information about the operating effectiveness of controls at the service organization.
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Explain the type of report that might the service organization provide to management of an entity that uses the service center to process quality control reports related to the user entity’s manufacturing process.
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