MEANING OF AUDIT SAMPLING


MEANING OF AUDIT SAMPLING

According to SA 530 “Audit sampling”, ‘audit sampling’ refers to the application of audit procedures to less than 100% of items within a population of audit relevance such that all sampling units have a chance of selection in order to provide the auditor with a reasonable basis on which to draw conclusions about the entire population.

The objective of the auditor when using audit sampling is to provide a reasonable basis for the auditor to draw conclusions about the population from which the sample is selected.

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