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The definition of sampling is - "The application of audit procedures to less than 100% of items within a population of audit relevance such that all sampling units have a chance of selection in order to provide the auditor with a reasonable basis on which to draw conclusions about the entire population" It is covered by ISA 530.
In other words sampling means restricting ones audit procedure to less than 100 % population.
Advantages of sampling -
There are various type of audit sampling like random sampling, systematic sampling, haphazard sampling, block selection which are popular amoung the auditor.