Most CPAs believe there are significant opportunities and potential risks for auditors to provide credibility to prospective financial information. It is widely accepted that users want reliable prospective information to aid their decision making. If auditors can improve the reliability of the information. Information risk may be reduced in the same way it is in audits of historical financial statements. The risks arise because the actual results obtained in the future may differ significantly from the results predicted in the prospective financial statements. Regulators, users, and Others may criticize and even sue auditors, even if the prospective statements were fairly stated, given the information available when they were prepared.