Are You Ready for Your Peer Review? - Connecticut Society of CPAs

Overview

Be ready for your peer review!

The peer review process is an effective way to monitor practice quality, ensuring that your firm meets high standards while protecting the public interest.

Gain a better understanding of the overall peer review process and learn how to fully prepare for your triennial review.

This webcast will help you:

Understand and compare the system and engagement review processes

Address recently issued peer review guidance and quality control requirements

Learn how both guidance and requirements affect your firm

You'll also discover the most common areas of noncompliance with professional standards and how to avoid them well before your review is due. Participants will leave this session with the resources and tools to enhance their firm's peer review quality.

Objectives

Distinguish the steps included in the peer review process.
Determine ways to prepare for your peer review.
Analyze ways to get value from your peer review.
Determine common areas of noncompliance with professional standards.

Highlights

Peer review process and timeline

Quality control standards overview

Enhancing Audit Quality initiatives

Common issues identified in peer review and how to prevent them

Best practices to prepare for your firm's peer review

Peer review resources and tools

Designed For

Firms subject to the peer review process

Members of the Peer Review Program

Auditors

Accountants

Finance professionals

Prerequisites

A fundamental knowledge of performing A&A engagements and peer review

Notice

You will receive an email from the AICPA with instructions to access the webinar.

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Leader(s):

Tim Kindem, Sr. Manager - Peer Review, AICPA

Leader Bios

Tim Kindem, Sr. Manager - Peer Review, AICPA

Tim Kindem is a Senior Manager of the AICPA Peer Review Program. He is the staff liaison to the Peer Review Board and Planning Task Force. Previously, he served as the staff liaison to the Education and Communication Task Force. In this role, he developed or revised numerous continuing professional education offerings specifically designed for peer reviewers and developed or reviewed most technical content presented at various AICPA Peer Review Conferences. Prior to joining the AICPA, he was an audit manager with Ernst & Young in Raleigh, NC. Tim is a graduate from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s degree in accounting. He is currently licensed as a CPA in the State of North Carolina.

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