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Improving the Auditor and Auditee Relationship ON DEMAND

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2.0 Credits

Member Price $58.00

Non-Member Price $67.00

Overview

This auditing CPE course is a valuable resource for auditors seeking to enhance their professional relationships with auditees, especially in the governmental audit sector. It features a comprehensive set of techniques and practices aimed at improving communication, starting from the initial auditor-auditee conference. Attendees will benefit from learning skills that facilitate better presentations, effective communication of findings, and strategies to gain acceptance of recommendations. Moreover, the audit CPE course provides insights into addressing auditee responses and ensuring timely written comments on audit findings. By adopting these methods, auditors can expect to foster more cooperative relationships with auditees, leading to smoother audit processes and more constructive outcomes.

Highlights

Conducting conferences with the auditee. Presentation skills. Staffing and selling the findings. Soliciting written comments. Incorporating the auditee’s response.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

Professionals in government and public accounting.

Objectives

Identify techniques to improve auditor/auditee relations. Define practices that will improve auditor/auditee conferences. Identify useful skills for presentations, and more.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Sefton Boyars, Sefton Boyars CPA

Until his retirement in October 1996, Mr. Boyars had functioned as the Department of Education’s Regional Inspector General for Audit in Regions IX and X for sixteen years. During his 35-year career, Mr. Boyars worked for a variety of governmental audit agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service; the Department of Defense; Health, Education and Welfare; the U.S. Department of Education and a California county. Mr. Boyars is active in his profession. He is a member of the California CPA Society and currently serves as the Chair of his chapter’s Government Accounting and Auditing Committee and is a member of the State Government Accounting and Auditing Committee. He also sits on the Qualifications Committee of the California State Board of Accountancy. He is a past Chair of the Western Intergovernmental Audit Forum and often served as chair or co-chair of its subcommittees and roundtables. Mr. Boyars is a past President of the San Francisco chapter of the Association of Government Accountants. He continues his active participation in his local Chapter. Mr. Boyars is an experienced trainer and has taught for many organizations, including the U.S. Department of Education, Management Concepts, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the California State Controller, the California Association of State Auditors, the Los Angeles City Controller and the Association of Government Accountants. He received AGA’s National Education and Training Award for 1998.

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Non-Member Price $67.00

Member Price $58.00