Surgent's Auditing Not-for-Profit Entities: Superior Skills for an Effective and Efficient Audit
Overview
It’s been said that you cannot fit a square peg into a round hole. The same principle holds true for audits of not-for-profit entities. You cannot simply apply a standard commercial audit approach to the audit of a not-for-profit entity and expect a good fit. Skilled auditors will instead adjust the audit approach to fit the not-for-profit entity. This course is designed to help you do just. It will equip you with the superior skills needed to excel in auditing not-for-profit entities. The course materials utilize a highly illustrative and innovative format. Over 25 focused exercises are included to provide an enhanced working knowledge of auditing not-for-profit entities.
Highlights
- Refining key planning and general auditing considerations to the not-for-profit environment
- Characteristics of not-for-profit financial statements that require special attention
- The auditor’s consideration of fraud in auditing a not-for-profit entity
- Audit procedures to become comfortable with management’s recording and reporting of contributions and promises to give
- Auditing how a not-for-profit entity gets from natural expenses to functional expenses
- Auditing considerations and techniques related to net assets, compliance with tax laws and regulations, collections and split-interest agreements
- Considerations related to Yellow Book and single audits
Prerequisites
Basic auditing knowledge
Designed For
Auditors of not-for-profit entities
Objectives
- Identify what distinguishes not-for-profit auditing from commercial sector auditing
- Skillfully adjust the audit for the characteristics of a not-for-profit entity
- More effectively audit not-for-profit entities through superior knowledge of key issues
Preparation
None
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by Surgent Professional Education.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Charles Blanton
Since 2011, Charlie has been the Director of Governmental and Nonprofit Product Development for Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC. In that role, he writes Surgent McCoy’s CPE course offerings which qualify for Yellow Book CPE. Charlie has written over 20 CPE courses and teaches 15 to 20 days annually in the governmental and nonprofit arena. Before joining Surgent McCoy, he served as the technical manager for the AICPA’s governmental and nonprofit CPE courses from 1999 to 2011. Prior to serving the AICPA, Charlie worked for KPMG (where he performed Yellow Book and single audits); the Texas Society of CPAs (where he worked in peer review); Taylor Publishing; and Texas Wesleyan University (where he saw the Yellow Book and single audit process from the client’s perspective).
Non-Member Price $329.00
Member Price $279.00