Use of technology in an audit of financial statements - Risk Assessment

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Overview

How technology can help auditors improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality [bold]

Auditors are perpetually in pursuit of enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their audits while upholding consistently high standards of quality. The integration of technology into the audit process can seamlessly accomplish these objectives.

Join us as we delve into the insights of two distinguished members of the AICPA Auditing Standards Board’s Technology Working Group, including its chairperson. You’ll learn how technology can empower auditors to navigate the escalating demands of modern audits, particularly in the face of overwhelming data volumes, by harnessing available tools.

Our presenters discuss common reasons auditors may resist using technology and why those reasons, even more commonly, are not always valid.

Once you have an understanding that overcoming barriers to entry is possible, the Technology Working Group experts will guide you through the audit process. You’ll explore key junctures where automated tools, techniques and commercial software solutions can revolutionize your audit methodology for the better.

Our presenters then return to examine, in detail, how technology can help auditors during one of the most important steps in the process, the risk assessment. Highlighting benefits to efficiency and effectiveness, the new AICPA practice aid “Use of technology in an audit of financial statements” is the focus. Part I of this evolving practice aid takes a deep dive into risk assessment procedures. Walking through examples allows you to see how the guidance in the practice aid can assist in your daily work.

Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Auditing
Program Level: Intermediate

This course is being offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible on your My CPE page. Webinar access information will be emailed directly to you by AICPA.

Highlights

Commonly reported barriers to adopting technology and overcoming them

Illustrating where technology can improve the audit process

Using technology to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your risk assessment process

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of GAAS and the audit risk assessment process.

Designed For

Auditors, mainly experienced senior staff and managers

Smaller firm practitioners performing audits

Auditors looking to increase their skills, efficiency and effectiveness

Objectives

Identify the perceived barriers and solutions to the introduction of technology tools into the audit process.
Recall the areas where technology can benefit a practitioner when performing an audit.
Identify the benefits of using technology when performing audit risk assessment procedures through a detailed example.

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Leader(s):

Sara Watson, Director & Assurance Quality Leader, Forvis Mazars, LLP

Leader Bios

Sara Watson, Director & Assurance Quality Leader, Forvis Mazars, LLP

Sara is a Director and the Assurance Quality Leader in the Charlotte, NC office of Forvis Mazars US, where she focuses on technical assurance and accounting matters. She was previously a member of the firm’s Assurance Methodology and Innovation team and Professional Standards Group and spent several years as a consultant on the AICPA’s Dynamic Audit Solution project. She is also a current member of the ASB’s Technology Working Group and a frequent presenter for the AICPA.

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