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Audit 402: Audit Quality Control - Avoid Peer Review Issues

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2.00 Credits

Member Price $89.00

Non-Member Price $119.00

Overview

Audit Quality Control - Avoiding Peer Review Deficiencies highlights the most important considerations for those at all levels of the engagement team with quality control responsibilities on audit engagements. Upper-level reviewers have significant responsibilities for ensuring high-quality audit engagements. Unfortunately, deficient audits have serious negative consequences for both the CPA firm and the profession as a whole. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 16-hour audit skills curriculum for supervisory or managerial auditors, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has quality control responsibilities. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

The major topics covered in this course include:

  • Common peer review deficiencies that quality control reviewers should be alert to
  • Important considerations of second-level and other upper-level reviewers
  • Lessons learned from various regulatory oversight reviews
  • Statement of Quality Control Standards requirements specific to financial statement audits, and other regulatory oversight considerations

Prerequisites

Experience preparing and reviewing workpapers

Designed For

Anyone with quality control responsibilities with audit or other attestation engagements.

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

  • Identify common peer review and quality control deficiencies on financial statement audits
  • Determine important quality control standards most directly relevant to audits
  • Analyze the importance of upper level workpaper reviews, including an objective engagement quality control review

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 CPA Crossings.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Jennifer Louis, Emergent Solutions Group LLC

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and "soft skills" topics needed for professional and organizational success.

In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, where she focuses her energy on designing and delivering high-quality, practical and engaging accounting and auditing training. She was most recently Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly-respected training and audit process consulting firm. Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP. At the start of her professional career, Jennifer was an Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she frequently served as a local and national instructor. Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting. She currently resides in Charlotte, NC.

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Non-Member Price $119.00

Member Price $89.00

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