Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC)
About the Committee
Vision: A dynamic Profession that continuously evolves to provide high quality, value-added, innovative assurance and advisory solutions in furtherance of the public interest.
Mission: To support the Profession in serving the public interest by continuously anticipating, identifying, assessing and addressing evolving market needs and demand for assurance and advisory solutions.
Objectives: ASEC’s focus is to continuously anticipate, identify, assess and address significant developments and opportunities relating to emerging assurance and advisory needs, and to determine and develop relevant thought leadership, guidance and criteria, tools, or other member support. Accordingly, the primary objectives of ASEC are to:
- Anticipate, identify and assess new service opportunities related to market needs and demands and emerging technologies
- Where needed, develop and communicate assurance and advisory guidance (including, where necessary, underlying suitable criteria)
- Support the innovation of traditional services (e.g. the financial statement audit and existing attestation services) to enhance quality and meet evolving market needs
- Collaborate with industry, government and other specialized groups to enhance members’ ability to efficiently and effectively meet market needs related to new and existing services
- Maintain and evolve existing guidance and criteria developed by ASEC
Committee Task Force Activity

The ASEC Emerging Assurance Technologies Task Force is responsible for developing a conceptual framework and guidance to capitalize on emerging technologies affecting the business information supply chain, covering both internal and external reporting.
Currently two concurrent projects are in process:
Staff Contacts

Erin Mackler, Director - Assurance and Advisory Services, SOC Reporting
Members of the Committee

- Jim Burton, Chair, Grant Thornton
- Damon Busse, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause
- Cathy Schweigel - CLAconnect
- Daniel Richard Balla, Crowe
- Jennifer Burns, Deloitte
- Mary Grace Davenport, PWC
- Chris Halterman, EY
- Elaine Howle, California State Auditor
- Bryan Martin, BDO
- Dyan Rohol, KPMG
- Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, Oracle
- Miklos Vasarhelyi, Rutgers Business School