Audit Staff Essentials: Audit Working Papers 2024

Overview

Audit working papers provide the necessary evidence that the audit was planned and performed per US generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) and meeting legal and regulatory requirements. This course will describe the various audit documentation requirements in US GAAS and the different other purposes, such as assisting the engagement team in planning and performing the audit, directing and supervising, directing work and reviewing the audit work. Audit work papers should document the procedures performed, the audit evidence examined, and the conclusions and judgments reached by the audit team.

Highlights

• Proper audit documentation techniques
• Audit quality standards as they pertain to audit documentation
• Nature and extent of audit documentation
• Examples of audit work papers

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Entry level audit professionals.

Objectives

• Understand the documentation requirements in professional standards
• Identify common work paper deficiencies
• Discuss how to prepare audit work papers properly

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor. Login instructions will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Login instructions will be emailed directly to you by California Education Foundation (CalCPA).