Documenting Your EBP Audit: What You Need to Know

Overview

What you document matters

Understanding different parts of the employee benefit plan (EBP) audit process can help you think holistically about your level of audit documentation.

You’ll learn the appropriate level of documentation when performing EBP audit procedures, which involves testing items that are not typically tested in audits of other types of entities.

Real-life examples

You’ll also gain insights from real-life examples and solutions as you are guided by a former employee benefit plan expert panel member and peer reviewer.

Additionally, reviewing these examples will help you truly understand documentation in an EBP audit and learn best practices for documentation to incorporate into your audits.

Highlights

Professional standards

Audit planning

Risk assessment and control testing

Documentation best practices for investments and plan expenses

Key audit areas in the financial statements, such as contributions and contributions receivable, benefit payments, and participant notes receivable

Participant data and participant accounts

Initial audits, plan mergers, and other issues

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Auditors of employee benefit plans

Objectives

Recognize areas in employee benefit plan audits that commonly lead to documentation deficiencies.
Recall the AICPA professional standards that address audit documentation.
Recall the practical aspects of unique EBP audit planning procedures.
Recognize effective documentation of risk assessment.
Recognize effective documentation of system narratives and walk-throughs.
Recall documentation concepts for investments and participant notes receivable.
Identify best practices for documenting audit procedures surrounding contributions and benefit payments.
Recall documentation for other audit areas not related to specific accounts.