Current Audit Environment and ASB Activity
Overview
Understanding the current audit environment
You’ll explore the current audit environment, including the audit challenges triggered by the current environment. Additionally, you’ll do a comprehensive review of recent audit pronouncement and exposure drafts.
Topics you’ll cover include those critical to success in today’s rapidly changing regulatory environment, such as:
Highlights
Prerequisites
Accounting professionals with audit experience
Designed For
CPAs
Objectives
- Determine the importance of obtaining a sufficient understanding of the client and the client's environment to effectively plan the audit in response to the risk of material misstatement.
- Determine how the key economic trends currently affecting U.S. businesses affect the auditor in assessing the risk of material misstatement.
- Identify the key risk issues determined by executives and unique challenges for audit engagements.
- Identify key elements of recent Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs).
- Identify the auditor's responsibilities relating to fraud in an audit of financial statements.
- Recognize key provisions from recently issued Technical Questions and Answers.
- Distinguish key elements included in the recently issued Statements on Quality Management Standard (SQMS) No. 1,
- A Firm's System of Quality Management
- , SQMS No. 2,
- Engagement Quality Reviews
- , and SQMS No. 3,
- Amendments to QM Sections 10
- , A Firm's System of Quality Management,
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- , Engagement Quality Reviews.
- Identify key elements of Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) No. 26,
- Quality Management for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance With Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services
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- Identify key elements of Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 23,
- Amendments to the Attestation Standards for Consistency With the Issuance of AICPA Standards on Quality Management.
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by AICPA.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Kurt Oestriecher, Oestriecher & Company CPAs
Mr. Oestriecher has been employed by Oestriecher & Company; CPA’s since 1986 and has been partner in charge of accounting and auditing services since 1994. He has also served as an Adjunct Instructor of Accounting at Louisiana State University at Alexandria and Northwestern State University. He received the Outstanding Discussion Leader Award from the Louisiana Society of CPAs in 1998, and 2006. Kurt functions in many capacities for the Louisiana Society of CPAs on its board and varying committees. He is Past President of the LCPA and past President of the Central Louisiana Chapter of Society of Louisiana CPAs. He is a member of the AICPA and has served on the Accounting and Review Services Committee, which issues the Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services. He is currently serving 2 three year terms on the AICPA Joint Trial Board. [April 07]
Non-Member Price $119.00
Member Price $99.00