The aim of this paper is to analyze the demands on a sufficient audit. This aim was addressed by the research question ‘how does the SSBPA frame a sufficient audit?’. The disciplinary cases that provided the material for the investigation undertaken to meet this aim suggested two ways to frame a sufficient audit. Either a sufficient audit is an audit that meets all the demands
that the SSBPA otherwise would mention as wrongdoings in a disciplinary case or a sufficient audit is an audit that is not
punished by means of the SSBPA withdrawing the license of the auditor. Other framings of a sufficient audit are however
also possible. The design of the current study can for instance not claim to capture all SSBPAs demands on a sufficient audit
as only audits that are punished by the SSBPA are included in the investigation. The ‘interestingness’ of including more
demands is however doubtful. If all demands on a successful audit were included this would mean that a sufficient audit
is a perfect audit (whatever that is). The opposite approach seems more useful when seeking to understand what demands
need to be present for comfort to be produced according to the SSBPA. From this perspective the lower the bar, i.e., the more
wrongdoings that can be accepted the further this will take us towards the ‘base-line’ of a sufficient audit according to the
SSBPA.