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ISA 501 Audit Evidence - Additional Considerations for Specific Items ISA 501 Audit Evidence - Additional Considerations for Specific Items is one of the International Standards on Auditing. It sets out guidance additional to the ones in ISA 500 Audit Evidence to help auditor to obtain audit evidence with respect to the below certain specific financial statement account balances and discloures:
ISA Brown The ISA Brown is a French breed of chicken, which is a cross between Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White chickens. The breed is known for its high egg production of approximately 300 eggs per hen in the first year.
ISABELLE ISABELLE was a 200+200 GeV proton-proton colliding beam particle accelerator partially built by the United States government at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, before it was cancelled in July, 1983.
ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards The ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards were launched in 1994 by the International Sailing Federation. The awards are recognised as the pinnacle award a sailor can receive in recognition of his/her outstanding achievements by the world of sailing.
ISAM ISAM stands for Indexed Sequential Access Method, a method for storing data for fast retrieval. ISAM was originally developed by IBM and today forms the basic data store of almost all databases, both relational and otherwise.
ISAPI The Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) is an N-tier API of Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft's collection of Windows-based web server services. The most prominent application of IIS and ISAPI is Microsoft's web server.
ISAS (Ictal-Interictal SPECT Analysis by SPM) The goal of ictal Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is to localize the region of seizure onset for epilepsy surgery planning. ISAS (Ictal-Interictal SPECT Analysis by SPM) is an objective tool for analyzing ictal vs.
ISBT 128 ISBT 128 is a system for identification, labeling and processing of human blood, tissue, and cellular therapy products using an internationally standardized barcode system. The acronym ISBT stands for the International Society of Blood Transfusion.
ISC Kosmotras The International Space Company Kosmotras or ISC Kosmotras is a joint project, established in 1997, of Russia, Ukraine, and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Its purpose is the development and operation of a commercial launch vehicle, the Dnepr, converted from Soviet era SS-18 ICBMS which were to be decommissioned as part of the START Treaty.
ISC licence The ISC licence is a free software licence that is functionally equivalent to the 2-clause BSD licence, with language deemed "unnecessary" removed. It was created by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) as a licence for their own software releases.
ISCAR Metalworking ISCAR Metalworking is a metal cutting tools company based in Israel. A 80% stake of the company was purchased by Warren Buffett in 2006 for the price of US$4 billion in his first-ever acquisition outside the U.
ISCI An ISCI (Industry Standard Commercial Identifier) code is a standard used to identify television commercials (aka "spots") aired on commercial television worldwide, for TV stations, ad agencies, video post-production houses, and other related entities to identify commercials for airing.
ISCSI Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is a network protocol standard, officially ratified on 2003-02-11 by the Internet Engineering Task Force, that allows the use of the SCSI protocol over TCP/IP networks. iSCSI is a transport layer protocol in the SCSI-3 specifications framework.
ISCSI Extensions for RDMA iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) provides zero-copy message transfers for SCSI packets. With iSER, a storage device may connect via an existing iWARP or InfiniBand network, thus saving the cost of an additional Fibre Channel network.
ISCTE The ISCTE - Instituto Superior de CiĂŞncias do Trabalho e da Empresa (pron. ; in English Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences), in Lisbon, is a Portuguese public university (with the particular formal status of Non-Integrated University Institute).
ISDN Digital Subscriber Line ISDN Digital Subscriber Line (IDSL) transmits data digitally (rather than analog) on a regular twisted pair copper telephone line, across existing ISDN lines, at a rate of 144 kbit/s, slightly higher than a bonded dual channel ISDN connection at 128kbit/s. The digital transmission bypasses the telephone company's central office equipment that handles analog signals.
ISEA ISEA, or Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts is "an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies." (From ISEA website.
ISEB ISEB stands for the Information Systems Examinations Board, a part of the British Computer Society. It promotes the acquisition of qualifications for IT professionals and has gained ground as the standardisation of IT skills has been occurring during the last decade or so.
ISFET An ISFET is an ion-sensitive field effect transistor used to measure ion concentrations in solution; When the ion concentration (or pH) changes, the current flowing through the transistor will change accordingly. Here, the solution is used as gate electrode.
IShell iShell is a traditional multimedia authoring environment, similar in many ways to Macromedia Director. A descendant of the Apple Media Tool, iShell is designed to be easy to use, but powerful enough to grow as a user's skill set increases.
ISchola iSchola is a proprietary on-line community environment designed specifically for use by the European Schools. It is forum based system that uses advanced artificial intelligence, word checking and moderation techniques providing a safe community for the students of the European Schools.
ISIGHT iSIGHT is the name of a computer program for multidisciplinary design optimization, produced by Engineous Software. It provides optimization methods such as sequential quadratic programming, simulated annealing, and genetic algorithms.
ISIM An IP Multimedia Services Identity Module (ISIM) is an application running on a UICC smart card in a 3G mobile telephone in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). It contains parameters for identifying and authenticating the user to the IMS.
ISIS (satellite) ISIS I and II (International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies) were the third and fourth satellites that were launched in a series of Canadian satellites sent up to study the ionosphere. After the success of Canada's Alouette 1, Canada and the United States decided to jointly launch three more satellites which they called the ISIS program.
ISIS neutron source The ISIS neutron source is currently (2006) the most powerful spallation neutron source in the world. Situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, it is used to enable muon and neutron scattering science to probe the structure and properties of matter, from the atomic to the biological scales.
ISkin iSkin is a company based in Toronto, Ontario mostly known for its iPod cases, which it first released in 2002. iSkin has since produced a variety of other accessories such as headphones, Macintosh keyboard guards, and Sony PSP cases.
ISKRA lasers The ISKRA-4 and ISKRA-5 lasers are lasers which were built by the Russian Federation at RFNC-VNIIEF in Arzamas-16 () with the approximately 2 kJ output ISKRA-4 laser being completed in 1979 and the 30 kJ output ISKRA-5 laser which was completed in 1989. The main use for both lasers being the investigation into inertial confinement fusion, high energy density physics and nuclear weapons research.
ISLISP ISLISP (also capitalized as ISLisp) is a programming language in the LISP family standardized by the ISO. The goal of the ISO standardization effort was to define a small, core language to help bridge the gap between differing dialects of Lisp.
ISmart Create iSmart Create is an online website content management system developed by the Australian company iSmart Software. iSmart Create can be used by small to medium businesses to update and manage their own websites.
ISM University of Management and Economics ISM University of Management and Economics is an institution of undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education in business, management and economics. The University serves as an advanced centre of market analysis, executive training and leading academic thought.
ISO 1000 International standard ISO 1000 (SI units and recommendations for the use of their multiples and of certain other units, International Organization for Standardization, 1992) is the ISO standard describing the International System of Units (SI).
ISO 10161 ISO 10161 refers to the protocols defining the Virtual Document Exchange communication between various document exchange system used for Inter-Library Loan purposes. This means VDX system residing on different hardware platform and software can talk to each other to request and receive electronic documents between the various participating libraries.
ISO 10383 ISO 10383 is an ISO standard for "Codes for exchanges and market identification" (MIC): it defines codes for stock markets. This standard is updated frequently and the latest published standard is available at the maintenance organization of ISO 10383
ISO 10993 The ISO 10993 series entail a series of standards for evaluating the biocompatibility of an implant prior to a clinical study. These documents were preceded by the Tripartite agreement and is a part of the harmonisation of the safe use evaluation of biomedical devices.
ISO 13485 ISO 13485 is an ISO standard, published in 2003, that represents the requirements for a comprehensive management system for the design and manufacture of medical devices. Compliance with ISO 13485 is often seen as the first step in achieving compliance with regulatory requirements.
ISO 13584 The official title of ISO 13584 is Industrial automation systems and integration - Parts library, with the acronym PLIB. PLIB is developed and maintained by the ISO technical committee TC 184, Technical Industrial automation systems and integration, sub-committee SC4 Industrial data.
ISO 14000 The ISO 14000 environmental management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment (cause adverse changes to air, water, or land), comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and continually improve on the above.
ISO 14223/1 ISO 14223/1 is an International Standard that specifies the structure of the radio frequency (RF) code for advanced transponders for animals. The technical concept of advanced transponders for animal identification described is based upon the principle of radio frequency identification (RFID) and is an extension of the standards ISO 11784 and ISO 11785.
ISO 15189 ISO 15189:2003 Medical laboratories - Particular requirements for quality and competence specifies the quality management system requirements particular to medical laboratories. The standard was developed by the International Organisation for Standardisations's Technical Committee 212 (ISO/TC 212).
ISO 15292 ISO 15292, "Information technology - Security techniques - Protection Profile registration procedures" establishes an international registry (operated by AFNOR) for Protection Profiles and packages used in computer security evaluation under the Common Criteria framework. The format of these profiles and packages is as specified in ISO 15408.
ISO 15504 ISO/IEC 15504 also known as SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) is a "framework for the assessment of software processes" developed by the Joint Technical Subcommittee between ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Committee). For more information about the SPICE project documents: The_SPICE_project
ISO 15686 ISO 15686 is the in development ISO standard dealing with service life planning. is a decision process which addresses the development of the service life of a building component, building or other constructed work like a bridge or tunnel.
ISO 17025 ISO 17025, "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories" is an ISO standard that has been described as "ISO 9000 with knobs on" Predating the relaunch of the revised ISO 9000:2000 series, it takes quality management system]s a stage further by looking at the competence of the laboratory as well as the fitness for purpose of the quality management system.
ISO 19092-1 ISO 19092-1 Financial Services - Biometrics - Part 1: Security framework, is an ISO standard and describes the adequate information management security controls and the proper procedures for using biometrics as an authentication mechanism for secure remote electronic access or local physical access controls for the financial and other critical infrastructure industries.
ISO 19092-2 ISO 19092 Financial Services - Biometrics - Part 2: Message syntax and cryptographic requirements is an ISO standard that describes the techniques, protocols, cryptographic requirements, and syntax for using biometrics as an identification and verification mechanism in a wide variety of security applications in the financial industry.
ISO 19114 ISO 19114 Geographic information - Quality evaluation procedures provides a procedural framework for evaluating the quality of digital geographic datasets, consistent with the data quality principles defined in ISO 19113. It consists of three classes of conformance: one for quality evaluation, one for evaluating data quality and on for reporting quality information.
ISO 2145 International standard ISO 2145 defines a typographic convention for the "numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents". It applies to any kind of document, including manuscripts, books, journal articles, and standards.
ISO 22000 Food safety is linked to the presence of food-borne hazards in food at the point of consumption. Since food safety hazards can occur at any stage in the food chain it is essential that adequate control be in place.
ISO 2788 ISO 2788 is an ISO international standard intended to ensure consistent practice within a single indexing agency, or between different agencies. The official title of the standard is "Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri.
ISO 31 International Standard ISO 31 (Quantities and units, International Organization for Standardization, 1992) is the most widely respected style guide for the use of units of measurement, and formulas involving them, in scientific and educational documents worldwide. In most countries, the notations used in mathematics and science textbooks at schools and universities follow closely the guidelines given by ISO 31.
ISO 31-0 ISO 31-0 is the introductory part of international standard ISO 31 on quantities and units. It provides guidelines for using physical quantities, quantity and unit symbols, and coherent unit systems, especially the SI.
ISO 31-10 ISO 31-10 is the part of international standard ISO 31 that defines names and symbols for quantities and units related to nuclear reactions and ionizing radiations. It gives names and symbols for 70 quantities and units.
ISO 3103 ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO). It specifies a standardized method for brewing tea, originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980BS 6008:1980 Method for preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests standardsdirect.
ISO 3166-1 ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. It was first published in 1974 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and defines three different codes for each area:
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard.
ISO 3166-1 numeric ISO 3166-1 numeric (or numeric-3) codes are 3-digit country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard, and correspond to the 3-digit country codes developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.
ISO 3166-2:AF ISO 3166-2:AF codes for the provinces of Afghanistan. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such.
ISO 3166-2:CA ISO 3166-2:CA is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Canada. It delineates codes for Canada's first-level national subdivisions: 10 provinces and 3 territories.
ISO 3166-2:IS ISO 3166-2:IS is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Iceland. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Iceland (IS) and a single character, hyphenated together.
ISO 3166-2:NG ISO 3166-2:NG is an ISO standard which defines a geocode: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Nigeria. Each code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code NG and a hyphen followed by 2 letters for each of the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT Abuja).
ISO 3166-2:TH ISO 3166-2:TH is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Thailand. It covers the 75 provinces (changwat) and the city of Bangkok, which is both a province and a municipality.
ISO 3166-2:US ISO 3166-2:US is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the United States of America. It covers 50 states, 1 district, 6 outlying areas (including 9 minor outlying islands under separate ISO 3166-1 country code UM).
ISO 3977 ISO 3977 is an international standard related to the design and procurement of gas turbine system applications. ISO 3977 is based primarily on the ASME 133 series on gas turbines, as well as the API 616 and API 11PGT standards.
ISO 4 ISO 4 is an international standard which defines a uniform system for the abbreviation of journal titles. The ISSN International Centre, which ISO has appointed as the registration authority for ISO 4, maintains the "List of Title Word Abbreviations", which are standard abbreviations for words commonly found in serial titles.
ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is the international standard describing three letter codes (also known as the currency code) to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The ISO 4217 code list is the established norm in banking and business all over the world for defining different currencies, and in many countries the codes for the more common currencies are so well known publicly, that exchange rates published in newspapers or posted in banks use only these to define the different currencies, instead of translated currency names or ambiguous currency symbols.
ISO 428 ISO 428 was an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard fully entitled "Wrought Copper-Aluminium Alloys -- Chemical Composition And Forms of Wrought Products", specifying the allowable compositions of various copper-aluminum alloy specifications (see aluminium bronze). The standard, promulgated in 1983, was withdrwan in March 2000.
ISO 5776 ISO 5776, published by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), is a document which specifies symbols for proofreading such as of manuscripts, typescripts and printer's proofs. The total number of symbols specified is 16, each in English, French and Russian.
ISO 639-2 ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. The three-letter codes given for each language in this part of the standard are referred to as "Alpha-3" codes.
ISO 639-5 ISO/DIS 639-5 Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups, being developed by ISO/TC 37/SC 2. The CD was issued on 2005-02-23, voting terminating on 2005-07-05.
ISO 6438 ISO 6438, "Documentation - African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange," is an ISO standard for African language 8-bit character encodings for use by computers. Originally adopted in 1983, it has apparently had little use and is now superseded by Unicode.
ISO 6709 The International standard ISO 6709 of the International Organization for Standardization is the standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations. The order of the elements is the latitude, the longitude and the altitude.
ISO 7001 ISO 7001 ("Public information symbols") is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines a set of pictograms and symbols for public information. The latest version is ISO 7001:1990.
ISO 7736 International standard ISO 7736 defines a standard size for car audio head units. The standard was originally established by the German standards body Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Normung, and is therefore commonly referred to as the "DIN car radio size".
ISO 7812 ISO 7812, first published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1989, is the international standard governing magnetic stripe identification cards, such as door entry cards, automated teller machine (ATM) cards, and credit cards. Credit card numbers are in fact ISO 7812 numbers.
ISO 7816 ISO 7816 is an international standard related to electronic identification cards, especially smart cards, managed jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It is an extension of ISO 7810.
ISO 8583 ISO 8583 Standard for Financial Transaction Card Originated Messages - Interchange message specifications is the International Organization for Standardization standard for systems that exchange electronic transactions made by cardholders using payment cards.
ISO 8601 ISO 8601, "Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times" is an international standard for date and time representations. The signature feature of the ISO 8601 format is that all values are organized from most to least significant.
ISO 9000 ISO 9000 is a family of standards for quality management systems. ISO 9000 is maintained by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies.
ISO 9241 ISO 9241 is a multi-part standard covering a number of aspects for people working with computers. Although originally titled Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs) it is being retitled to the more generic Ergonomics of Human System Interaction by ISO.
ISO 9362 ISO 9362 (also known as SWIFT or BIC code) is a standard format of Bank Identifier Codes approved by the International Organization for Standardization. It is the unique identification code of a particular Bank.
ISO metric screw thread The metric ISO screw threads are the world-wide most commonly used type of general-purpose screw thread. They were one of the first international standards agreed when the International Organization for Standardization was set up in 1947.
ISO TC 215 The ISO/TC 215 is the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) on Health informatics. TC 125 works on the standardization of Health Information and Communications Technology (ICT), to allow for compatibility and interoperability between independent systems.
ISO-8859-8-I ISO-8859-8-I is the IANA charset name for the character encoding ISO/IEC 8859-8 used together with the control codes from ISO/IEC 6429 for the C0 (0x00–0x1F) and C1 (0x80–0x9F) parts. The characters are in logical order.
ISO/IEC 11801 International standard ISO/IEC 11801 specifies general-purpose telecommunication cabling systems (structured cabling) that are suitable for a wide range of applications (analog and ISDN telephony, various data communication standards, building control systems, factory automation). It covers both balanced copper cabling and optical fibre cabling.
ISO/IEC 14882 ISO/IEC International Standard 14882, Programming Languages — C++, is the official standard for the C++ programming language and library, defined by the JTC1/SC22/WG21 working group. It was first published in 1998 and revised in 2003.
ISO/IEC 17799 ISO/IEC 17799 is an information security standard published and most recently revised in June 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It is entitled Information technology - Security techniques - Code of practice for information security management.
ISO/IEC 27000 ISO/IEC 27000 is the number reserved for a new international standard, which currently has the provisional title: "Information technology - Security techniques - Information security management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary" The standard is known informally as "ISO 27000".
ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 is an information security management system (ISMS) standard published in October 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission. Its full name is ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology -- Security techniques -- Information security management systems -- Requirements but it is commonly known as "ISO 27001".
ISO/IEC 646 ISO 646 is an ISO standard that specifies a 7-bit character code from which several national standards are derived, the best known of which is ASCII. Since the portion of ISO 646 shared by all countries specified only the letters used in the English alphabet, other countries using the Latin alphabet with extensions needed to create national variants of ISO 646 to be able to use their native languages.
ISO/IEC 80000 International Standard ISO 80000 (Quantities and units, International Organization for Standardization) is the most widely respected style guide for the use of units of measurement, and formulas involving them, in scientific and educational documents worldwide. In most countries, the notations used in mathematics and science textbooks at schools and universities follow closely the guidelines given by ISO 80000.
ISO/IEC 8859 ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, is a joint ISO and IEC standard for 8-bit character encodings for use by computers. The standard is divided into numbered, separately published parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc.
ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding of the Latin alphabet. It was originally developed by the ISO, but later jointly maintained by the ISO and the IEC.
ISO/IEC 8859-13 ISO 8859-13, also known as Latin-7 or "Baltic Rim", is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover the Baltic languages, and added characters missing from the earlier encodings ISO 8859-4 and ISO 8859-10.
ISO/IEC 8859-14 ISO 8859-14, also known as Latin-8 or "Celtic", is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover the Celtic languages, such as Gaelic, Welsh and Breton.
ISO/IEC 8859-16 ISO 8859-16, also known as Latin-10 or "South-Eastern European", is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed to cover Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Slovenian, but also French, Italian and Irish Gaelic (new orthography).
ISO/IEC 8859-3 ISO 8859-3, also known as Latin-3 or "South European" is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover Turkish, Maltese and Esperanto, though the introduction of ISO 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish.
ISO/IEC 8859-4 ISO 8859-4, also known as Latin-4 or "North European", is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, and Sami.
ISO/IEC 8859-5 ISO 8859-5, also known as Cyrillic is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover languages using a Cyrillic alphabet such as Bulgarian, Belarusian, and Russian, but was never widely used.
ISO/IEC 8859-6 ISO 8859-6, also known as Arabic, is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover languages using the Arabic alphabet, but lacks many needed glyphs and therefore was never too popular.

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