Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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SSAE

Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) is a professional standards document that guides practitioners on performing attestation engagements. Attestation engagements are engagements in which a practitioner expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written assertion made by another party. The SSAE is issued by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

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