Chris Schellman is the CEO and Founder of Schellman, which is an accredited CPA Firm, PCI QSA Company, ISO 27001 Registrar, FedRAMP 3PAO, and a HITRUST CSF Assessor. He began his career focusing on IT audits and SAS 70’s and has now contributed to nearly 2,000 SOC examinations.

SOC Examinations

5 Things You Should Already Know About SSAE 16

By: CHRIS SCHELLMAN
May 16th, 2010

Last month, the AICPA issued a set of standards that CPAs who do assurance engagements at service companies should examine carefully.

SSAE 16 - An Introduction

By: CHRIS SCHELLMAN
May 10th, 2010

In 2001, an international effort began to “converge” the disparate accounting standards of the world in order to provide a framework that better meets the demands of globalization. The various national standard setting boards have spent years cooperatively developing a single set of international standards to which countries are encouraged to adopt. In the United States, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is actively revising and re-codifying many US accounting standards to better align with these new international standards.