Thinking Like an Auditor When Preparing Your Financial Statements
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price $79.00
Non-Member Price $109.00
Overview
External auditors understand concepts like materiality, reasonableness, and risk of material misstatement. This course will explain how to think like an auditor when preparing and fairly presenting your financial statements and related disclosures.
Objectives
- Describe important judgments made by the auditor in providing reasonable assurance about whether financial statements are materially misstated due to fraud or error
- Explain how to apply subjectivity, materiality and other critical aspects of professional judgment when preparing financial statements and related disclosures
- Apply illustrative examples to explain how judgment can be appropriately applied in reliable financial reporting
Highlights
- Determining an appropriate sense of quantitative and qualitative materiality
- Identifying the critical components of the financial statements that matter most to financial statement users
- Evaluating where the financial statements are most likely to contain material fraud and error, and ensuring adequate internal control and monitoring to mitigate those risks
Designed For
Anyone responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements
Prerequisites
None
Preparation
None
Notice
Your webinar can be accessed via https://ctcpas.acpen.com/Account/loginhttps://ctcpas.acpen.com/. If you do not have an ACPEN account, please sign up for an account using the email address you have on file with CTCPA.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Louis, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 19 years of experience in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organizational success. In 2003, she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company dedicated to developing and delivering accounting and auditing training services. She was most recently executive vice president/director of training services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and consulting firm serving the audit profession. During her six years at AuditWatch, Ms. Louis served in many other capacities, including vice president of product development, and a consultant for the firm’s Audit Productivity Improvement Program TM. She also coauthored a manual on value-added auditing. Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis 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 training sessions. Ms. Louis was also an audit manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP. During her years in that firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. Ms. Louis graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA in accounting.
Non-Member Price $109.00
Member Price $79.00