The audit report is the report that contains the audit’s opinion which is issued by independence auditors after their examination on the entity’s financial statements and related reports.
Those including financial statements, management accounts, management reports. or others report like compliant reports.
Mostly, those reports are issued based on the result of auditors’ professional examination against the measurement criteria or standards.
For example, auditors perform their audit on the client’s financial statements against the accounting standard that used to prepare those financial statements.
In other words, they review whether or not financial statements are prepared true and fair view in accordance with the accounting standards. Those standards could be IFRS, US GAAP or local GAAP.
After completing their testing, the auditor then issues the audit report on the financial statements that they just audited. This report will also include their opinion on the financial statements.