Audit Documentation - Workpapers To Pass Review
Available Until Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2027
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price $58.00
Non-Member Price $93.00
Overview
Description: Note: This course is a part of a recommended 16-hour audit skills curriculum for beginning staff. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Audit Documentation - Creating Workpapers That Pass Review is an important foundational course. Proper documentation is essential to a high-quality audit and other assurance services, as auditors are required to prepare and maintain documentation to demonstrate that sufficient and appropriate audit evidence was obtained to support the auditor's opinion. It is critical for workpapers to provide a clear understanding of the nature, timing and extent of procedures applied, the results of those procedures, source of evidence obtained, and conclusions reached. Both audit effectiveness and efficiency are directly impacted by the nature and extent of audit documentation.
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Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to...
- Identify the minimum documentation requirements of the audit standards
- Identify tips and techniques for self-review
- Recognize common workpaper deficiencies
- Recall how to prepare workpapers in proper form
Highlights
The major topics covered in this course include:
- Proper documentation as a means of audit quality
- Factors impacting the nature and extent of documentation
- Sample workpaper index and other organization tips
- Use of audit programs as means of audit documentation
- Checklist for self-review of workpapers and clearing review notes
- Multiple exercises on identifying workpaper deficiencies
Developed by: Emergent Solutions Group LLC
Designed For
Appropriate for beginning audit and assurance providers or anyone who needs a refresher in preparing high quality workpapers
Prerequisites
None
Preparation
None
Notice
You will receive an email from CPA Crossings with instructions to access this product.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Louis, Emergent Solutions Group LLC
Jennifer has over 25 years 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, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis. Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years. Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and audit process consulting firm later acquired by Thomson Reuters. Over her six years at AuditWatch, Jennifer served many roles. She began her career at AuditWatch as Vice President of Product Development. Jennifer also served as an instructor and consultant for the firm’s Audit Productivity Improvement Program (a comprehensive program enabling accounting firms to enhance audit quality and improve audit efficiency), as well as various other training courses. Later, Jennifer was primarily responsible for working with clients to design high-caliber, customized training programs. She led the Training Services Division, which includes AuditWatch University (“core-level” staff training for new hires to managers) and related offerings. She also co-authored the Guide to Value-Added Auditing (Thomson/Practitioners Publishing Company, Fort Worth, TX, July 2001).
Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational 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 trainings.
Jennifer was also an Audit Manager at Deloitte, in Washington, DC. During her five years with Deloitte, she was a frequent local and national instructor. Jennifer also served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program.
Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting. She is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is licensed to practice accounting in the Commonwealth of Virginia and North Carolina.Contact Jennifer via email at jlouis@emergentgroup.net, or via LinkedIn.
Non-Member Price $93.00
Member Price $58.00