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(LIAA66/27) Advanced Audit Planning Concepts – Ensuring an Effective and Efficient Audit
The biggest factors that lead to an effective and efficient financial statement audit are the properly identification, evaluation, and response to risk of material misstatement. Assessed risk of material misstatement leads to the generation of the nature, timing and extent of further audit procedures. This module will focus on how to enhance engagement team brainstorming...
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(SSAA121/27) Surgent’s Accounting for and Auditing Complex Investments
As companies look for greater investment returns in the current low interest rate environment, they are often investing in more risky types of investments, such as cryptocurrency. Further, as they look to hedge business risks, companies are frequently entering into derivative transactions, which both can contain unexpected risk and accounting complexity.As you advance in your...
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(SSAA198/27) Surgent’s Update on the AICPA’s Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative
Quality should be the primary focus of all engagements. Since initiating its Enhancing Engagement Quality initiative in 2014, the AICPA has been using its peer review program as a way to assess the improvement in engagement quality.In this course, we'll review the latest results from the peer review program and identify common findings in recent...
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(SSAA185/27) Surgent’s Guide and Update to Compilations, Reviews, and Preparations
Specifically designed for preparation, compilation, and review practitioners, this course provides a comprehensive review and hands-on application for performing financial statement preparation, compilation, and review engagements. You will learn the ins and outs of applying SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, as well as additional guidance related to SSARS engagements through the issuance of SSARS...
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(SSAA277/27) Surgent’s Annual Update for Defined Contribution Plans
This course will provide a general understanding of the new reporting and disclosure requirements for employee benefit plans under the now effective SAS 136, the AICPA's new employee benefit plan auditing standard. Participants will be provided with an insight into the common errors and mistakes made by auditors and plan administrators, as well as the...
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(SSAA163/27) Surgent’s Winning the Fraud Battle in the Digital Age: Prevention and Detection
The focus of this course is reducing the overall risk of fraud. To that end, instruction will cover the factors that play a role in turning honest employees into fraudsters. Discussion will touch on integrity and ethics, as well as how the reactions of people in certain situations may impact the prevalence of fraud.
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(LIAA41R/27) Analytical Procedures – Comprehending Financial Statement Audit Fundamentals – Rebroadcast
Properly designing, documenting and evaluating results of analytic review procedures is critical for performing an effective and efficient audit engagement. This module will provide the tips and techniques necessary to gather sufficient appropriate audit evidence to support conclusions using analytic procedures common to financial statement audits.
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(SSAA183/27) Surgent’s Compilation and Review Overview
Specifically designed for practitioners and their staff wanting an overview of compilation and review engagements, this course will introduce you to the objectives of compilation and review engagements, SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, which is currently applicable and is the most significant change to the compilation and review standards since their inception over thirty...
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(SSAA181/27) Surgent’s Compilations, Reviews, and Preparations: Engagement Performance and Annual Update
Specifically designed for preparation, compilation, and review practitioners, this course will provide you with a comprehensive review and hands-on application for performing financial statement preparation, compilation, and review engagements. You will learn the ins and outs of applying SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, as well as the additional guidance related to SSARS engagements through...
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(SSAA109/27) Surgent’s Essentials Of Audit Sampling
When performing an audit, an auditor bases his/her opinion about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement on a variety of tests on the underlying account balances and classes of transactions. Some balances, such as debt, may be tested 100% but more often, such as is the case with accounts receivable, the auditor...
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