The aim of this paper is to analyze the demands on a sufficient audit. Previous research has
suggested that the production of comfort is not only about producing an audit according to
‘the manual’ but that professional aspects such as the appearance of the auditor also are of
importance. In practice the relationship between, and the relative importance of, process
and professional aspects of an audit are however unclear. In this paper this question is
probed by analyzing the demands on a sufficient audit by an actor that in its jurisdiction is
an obligatory point of passage for the framing of a sufficient audit: the Swedish supervisory
board of public accountants (SSBPA). The material that is investigated is the disciplinary
cases published by the SSBPA. The image of a sufficient audit that materializes from this
investigation is of an audit that meets the demands of professional appearance.