Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain: Case Study Application

Overview

Understanding system and engagement reviews

As a current or future team or review captain, you will learn to successfully plan for, perform, and report on both system and engagement reviews. You will also be further introduced to the administrative and committee roles in the Peer Review Program.

Becoming a certified peer review team captain

This two-part CPE curriculum features:

A set of online self-study modules, (Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain)[https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/course/becoming-an-aicpa-peer-review-team-or-review-captain], that should be completed first, and

This course, *Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain: Case Study Application*, that should be completed after the self-study modules.

Note: Each offering of this case study application course is broken into three segments (generally, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of a given week). You must attend all three segments to receive credit for this portion of the curriculum.

Highlights

The role and qualifications of the peer reviewer in system and engagement reviews

Objectives and requirements related to peer reviews in a peer review program

Steps in a peer review engagement

Writing peer review reports

Assisting firms in preparing letters of response

Planning and conducting the exit conference

Engagement reviews and their distinct differences from system reviews

Prerequisites

Completion of “Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain” [https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/course/becoming-an-aicpa-peer-review-team-or-review-captain],

Designed For

Those who wish to become peer review team captain qualified.

Objectives

Distinguish between the processes to effectively plan system and engagement peer reviews.
Identify steps needed to understand a firm's system of quality management.
Identify the differences between the various types of peer review reports.
Identify the impact and effect that organizational issues have on a firm's system of 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.

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Leader(s):

Mike Brand

Leader Bios

Mike Brand

Since 2011, Charlie has been the Director of Governmental and Nonprofit Product Development for Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC. In that role, he writes Surgent McCoy’s CPE course offerings which qualify for Yellow Book CPE. Charlie has written over 20 CPE courses and teaches 15 to 20 days annually in the governmental and nonprofit arena. Before joining Surgent McCoy, he served as the technical manager for the AICPA’s governmental and nonprofit CPE courses from 1999 to 2011. Prior to serving the AICPA, Charlie worked for KPMG (where he performed Yellow Book and single audits); the Texas Society of CPAs (where he worked in peer review); Taylor Publishing; and Texas Wesleyan University (where he saw the Yellow Book and single audit process from the client’s perspective).

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