Quality Management

The IAASB has raised the bar for quality management.

Three new and revised standards strengthen and modernize the audit firm’s approach to quality management. Through the standards, the IAASB is addressing an evolving and increasingly complex audit ecosystem, including growing stakeholder expectations and a need for quality management systems that are proactive and adaptable.

The standards direct audit firms to improve the robustness of their monitoring and remediation, embed quality into their corporate culture and the “tone at the top”, and improve the robustness of engagement quality reviews.

The standards are effective December 15, 2022. They replace the IAASB’s current standards, International Standard on Quality Control 1 and International Standard on Auditing 220.

Implementation Guidance

• Key Changes
  • Increases firm leadership responsibilities and accountability, and improves firm governance
  • A risk-based approach focused on achieving quality objectives
  • Modernizes standards to address technology, networks, and the use of external service providers
  • Increases focus on the continual flow of information and appropriate communication internally and externally
  • Proactive monitoring of quality management systems and timely and effective remediation of deficiencies
  • Enhances engagement partner’s responsibility for audit engagement leadership and audit quality
  • Clarifies and strengthens requirements for a more robust engagement quality review
• The Quality Management Standards

  International Standard on Quality Management 1, Quality Management for Firms that Perform Audits or Reviews of Financial Statements, or Other Assurance or Related Services Engagements International Standard on Quality Management 2, Engagement Quality Reviews

  International Standard on Auditing 220 (Revised), Quality Management for an Audit of Financial Statements Conforming Amendments to ISAs and Related Materials Arising from the Quality Management Projects Conforming and Consequential Amendments to the IAASB’s Other Standards as a Result of the New and Revised Quality Management Standards

• Available Resources
  • ISQM 1
  • Basis for Conclusion & Factsheet
  • First-time Implementation Guide
  • ISQM 2
  • Basis for Conclusion & Factsheet
  • First-time Implementation Guide
  • ISA 220
  • Basis for Conclusion & Factsheet
  • First-time Implementation Guide
  • Definition of an Engagement Team Fact Sheet
  • Introductory videos with overviews of each standard: available in English, French and Spanish
  • Four-part webinar series taking a deep dive into ISQM 1, recordings and presentations available in English and presentation translation available in Spanish

Learn More about the Quality Management Standards

An Overview of the IAASB’s Quality Management Standards

Quality Management Standards: Perspectives on Initial Implementation Efforts

IAASB Quality Management Standards

Perspectiva general de las normas de gestión de calidad del IAASB

Vue d’ensemble des normes de gestion de la qualité de l’IAASB

国际审计与鉴证准则理事会质量管理准则概览

Raising the Bar on Quality Management: The IAASB’s New QM Standards

IFAC, IAASB, and ICAC Discussion Forum on Quality Management Standards

Albanian: Raising the Bar on Quality Management: The IAASB’s New QM Standards

Georgian: Raising the Bar on Quality Management: The IAASB’s New QM Standards

Ukrainian: Raising the Bar on Quality Management: The IAASB’s New QM Standards

Russian: Raising the Bar on Quality Management: The IAASB’s New QM Standards

Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian: Raising the Bar on Quality Management: The IAASB’s New QM Standards

Supporting the New Quality Management Standards

All You Need to Know about the Firm's Risk Assessment Process

Resources: Expectations for Firm and Engagement Partners

What’s New for Firms' Monitoring and Remediation Process

Bringing it all Together: Exploring all the Components of a Quality Management System