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Best Practices for Identifying and Evaluating Audit Risk ON DEMAND

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2.0 Credits

Member Price $58.00

Non-Member Price $67.00

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Overview

Properly identifying, assessing, and responding to risk through a detailed audit plan is critical to an effective and efficient financial statement audit. This risk audit CPE course will emphasize the key concepts and best practices that drive a thoughtful risk-based approach to forming an opinion on the financial statements.

Highlights

Properly identifying, assessing, and responding to risk.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs.

Objectives

Explain the importance of risk assessment to a high-quality audit. Recall the audit risk formula, including how the elements relate. Identify the steps and best practices of an effective risk assessment process. Link risk to a detailed audit plan.

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.

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Non-Member Price $67.00

Member Price $58.00