“…(6) Supplement the existing audit report with a statement of audit approach as a justification of the auditor's assessment, in line with the current French and Japanese audit report format. French law, for instance, requires the auditor to justify his opinion to users in the statement of audit approach section of the audit report, where he needs to discuss his assessment of significant accounting estimates or judgments in forming his opinion and the key audit procedures performed with regard to these estimates and judgments (see, for example, IOSCO, 2009;Turner et al, 2010;IAASB, 2011a). We note, however, that a survey by the French professional body of auditors shows considerable variation in the perceived usefulness of the statement across users (CNNC, 2011).…”