Audit 404: Maximizing Analytic Procedure Evidence on Audits
Overview
Maximizing Analytic Procedure Evidence - Adding Value Through Useful Financial Statement Analysis will enhance an ability to read and interpret financial information as a critical audit skill. Financial statement auditors need to be able to analyze financial results to not only enhance audit quality, but to also improve client service through being a better business advisor. 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 responsibilities for analyzing and interpreting financial statements. 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:
- Financial statement analysis, and communicating insights to financial statement users
- Improving audit quality through strong analytic procedures, including identifying and responding to risk of material misstatement
- Developing plausible expectations for comparison to actual financial results
- Detecting earnings management and other risks through analytic procedures
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of financial statements
Designed For
Accountants responsible for using analytic procedures to provide greater insight into the financial results for both audit and client service
Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to...
- Determine common ratios used to analyze and interpret financial results, focusing on areas such as profitability, liquidity, operating efficiency, and leverage
- Identify how to improve the use of analytic procedures to detect earnings management and other anomalies
- Determine how to leverage analytic procedures as audit evidence
- Identify how to draw conclusions from financial statement analysis
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.
Non-Member Price $119.00
Member Price $89.00