Audit Skills for Beginners ON DEMAND
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4.0 Credits
Member Price $58.00
Non-Member Price $67.00
Overview
By far, the biggest contributing factor that leads to a profitable, yet high quality, financial statement audit is the proper identification, evaluation, and response to assessed risk of material misstatement. When designing your detailed audit plan, how and where you decide to spend your time is largely a matter of professional judgment. The proven tips and techniques for critically rethinking how you plan and design your audit taught in this audit CPE course will help auditors enhance audit quality and manage profitability on all engagements.
Highlights
Audit skills.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs.
Objectives
Recognize how the nature, timing, and extent of planned audit procedures can (and should) vary commensurate with assessed risk of material misstatement. Recall how workpaper review is a critical tool for promoting audit effectiveness and efficiency. List tips for strengthening the design, documentation and evaluation of substantive analytic procedures. Explain the impact that strong client and engagement management can have on improving profitability.
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Louis, Surgent McCoy CPE LLC
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical accounting, auditing, and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organizational success. She is the principal author of audit and attest related courses for Surgent and a frequent speaker at Surgent live programs and seminars. Ms. Louis is also the president of Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company she founded in 2003, dedicated to developing and delivering a wide variety of accounting and auditing training services, including audit staff training, audit productivity improvement, and value-added auditing. Prior to that, she was executive vice president/director of training services at AuditWatch, Inc. Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis was the financial/operational internal audit manager at AARP. While at AARP, she served as one of their specially trained facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing and leading strategic meetings and training sessions. Ms. Louis was also an audit manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP. During her years in that firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. Ms. Louis graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA in accounting.
Non-Member Price $67.00
Member Price $58.00