Which of the following best describes the relationship between auditing and attestationengagements?a. Auditing is a subset of attestation engagements that focuses on the certification of financial statements.b. Attestation is a subset of auditing that provides lower assurance than that provided by anaudit engagement.c. Auditing is a subset of attestation engagements that focuses on providing clients withadvice and decision support.d. Attestation is a subset of auditing that improves the quality of information or its contextfor decision makers

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