Week 6 Assignment Your Name. ACCT540 Professional Research in Accountants Jim Racic 2/8/2016

Section The Confidential Client Information Rule

Section was developed to provide AICPA members guidance on additional interpretations to improve the confidentiality on client information. This new rule was implemented having a firm with the upmost integrity is essential to attestation. In order to use any information from a client, an accounting firm must obtain consent from the client in order to utilize that information. Formerly coded as failed to explain how the accounting firm received consent from the client. The new rule, Section was introduced by the AICPA to include eleven different interpretations to provide guidance needed to...