Confirmation Requests are mailed directly to selected customers, asking them to ‘confirm’ an
amount owed at a date specified in the request. This procedure has lost prominence in recent
years, because of its failure to adequately address the important assertion of valuation
(discussed further in a separate section below). However, because it is still relatively important
in many audits, and demonstrates the evidence-gathering technique of external confirmations
in general, it is explained further (below).