Assurance services — have been defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as Independent Professional Services that improve information quality or its context . Assurance services reduce the information risk; risk that the information… … Wikipedia
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Quality assurance — Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product s suitability for its intended purpose. It is a set of activities intended to ensure that products (goods and/or… … Wikipedia