How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concepts WEBCAST
Overview
By far, the biggest contributing factor that leads to a profitable, yet high quality, financial statement audit is the proper identification, evaluation, and response to assessed risk of material misstatement. When designing your detailed audit plan, how and where you decide to spend your time is largely a matter of professional judgment. The proven tips and techniques for critically rethinking how you plan and design your audit taught in this course will help auditors enhance audit quality and manage profitability in all engagements.
Highlights
Properly assessing inherent, control, and fraud risk on an engagement, and linking the results to an appropriately tailored detailed audit plan based on risk assessment and client service goals, regardless of entity type (for-profit, nonprofit, governmental). Leveraging strong substantive analytic procedures as audit evidence to cut back on tests of details. The most common efficiency opportunities for tailoring your audit approach based on risk. How to use the workpaper review process as a tool for producing a more effective and efficient engagement. Using audit documentation to enhance audit quality, while ensuring every workpaper has a purpose. How to use the client to your advantage in planning and performing the audit. Learn how to get the engagement out the door on time and on budget.
Prerequisites
Experience in basic audits.
Designed For
Any financial statement auditor who wishes to learn how to be more effective and efficient on engagements.
Objectives
Recognize how the nature, timing, and extent of planned audit procedures can (and should) vary commensurate with assessed risk of material misstatement. Recall how workpaper review is a critical tool for promoting audit effectiveness and efficiency. List tips for strengthening the design, documentation and evaluation of substantive analytic procedures. Explain the impact that strong client and engagement management can have on improving profitability.
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 $275.00
Member Price $225.00