How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concept
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.
Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Auditing
Program Level: Intermediate
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
None
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
Experience in basic audits
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 organization 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. Besides loving life on the lake with her
husband in Charlotte, NC, she enjoys hiking with her little dog Frodo Beggins, and savoring any precious moments spent with her two
young adult boys.
Non-Member Price $275.00
Member Price $225.00