Electronic Audit Evidence in Employee Benefit Plans

Overview

A significant amount of information is electronically initiated, recorded, processed, or reported and information to be used as audit evidence may be available only in electronic form. During this session, we will look at different types of information commonly presented to an auditor during the audit of an employee benefit plan and identify considerations for auditors when evaluating information to be used as audit evidence. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

• Audit evidence
• Employee benefit plans

Prerequisites

Knowledge of and experience with employee benefit plans

Designed For

Practitioners working with employee benefit plans

Objectives

• Identify types of information obtained during employee benefit plan audits
• Recognize what constitutes audit evidence in accordance with SAS 142, Audit Evidence
• Determine if sufficient appropriate audit evidence has been obtained
• Identify ways in which auditors might document the type, source, form, and procedures performed to information used as audit evidence

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.