Fraud Risk - Complying with Minimum Audit Requirements ON DEMAND
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2.0 Credits
Member Price $58.00
Non-Member Price $67.00
Overview
The financial statement auditor’s overall responsibility is to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial statements are materially misstated due to fraud or error. The difficulty is that there are inherent limitations related to detecting fraud due to deliberate schemes to conceal the intent to deceive, such as collusion. This fraud and auditing CPE course will highlight the audit procedures most effective in identifying, assessing and responding to fraud risk.
Highlights
Explain the expectation gap with financial statement users regarding the auditor’s responsibilities for preventing and detecting fraud. Fraud inquiries and engagement team discussion points. Identifying and responding to fraud risk on an audit. Testing journal entries and other tests for management override. Required fraud and noncompliance communications by various auditing.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs.
Objectives
Explain the various types of fraud relevant to a financial statement audit. Recall the symptoms of fraud and how to identify risk of material misstatement due to fraud. List appropriate responses to identified fraud risk. Recognize the requirements related to fraud and noncompliance in various generally accepted auditing standards.
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Louis, Surgent McCoy CPE LLC
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical accounting, auditing, and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organizational success. She is the principal author of audit and attest related courses for Surgent and a frequent speaker at Surgent live programs and seminars. Ms. Louis is also the president of Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company she founded in 2003, dedicated to developing and delivering a wide variety of accounting and auditing training services, including audit staff training, audit productivity improvement, and value-added auditing. Prior to that, she was executive vice president/director of training services at AuditWatch, Inc. Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis was the financial/operational internal audit manager at AARP. While at AARP, she served as one of their specially trained facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing and leading strategic meetings and training sessions. Ms. Louis was also an audit manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP. During her years in that firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. Ms. Louis graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA in accounting.
Non-Member Price $67.00
Member Price $58.00