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(SSAA195/27) Surgent’s Avoiding Deficiencies in Peer Reviews: Focus on Engagement Quality
With the AICPA's heightened focus on enhancing audit quality, increased oversight of the peer review process and the auditor's overall responsibility to provide high quality services, the focus on compliance with professional standards has never been greater. Add to that the requirement to implement the revised risk assessment standards (SAS 145) and it's easy to...
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(LIAA43R/27) How to Audit Expenses & Payables – Rebroadcast
It is imperative that audit staff understand the fundamentals of expenses & payables. This course will cover the basics of auditing expenses, accrued liabilities, and other payables, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to the expenses & payables balances. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff...
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(SSAA230/27) Surgent’s Internal Controls, COSO, and COVID-19
Companies that fall victim to fraud schemes need to reassess internal controls in order to prevent future fraudulent activity. In this course, we will review the 18 most prevalent internal controls that should be present (as well as designed and operating effectively) in order to prevent future frauds. These controls are taken from Association of...
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(SSAA264/27) Surgent’s Surging Auditors: Wally’s Warehouse
During this interactive game, participants take the role of an auditor performing a physical inventory observation at a client's warehouse. Participants will have the opportunity to use their powers of observation and exercise professional skepticism in identifying areas of risk that might need follow-up, interviewing Wally the client, and performing inventory test counts. After performing...
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(SSAA118/27) Surgent’s Reviewing Audit Workpapers
Audit documentation provides the principal support for the independent auditor's report. Therefore, it is important that workpapers meet professional standards. Anything less could result in peer or regulatory review deficiencies at as a worse case, lawsuits when fraud occurs at a company. The auditor is not responsible for identifying fraud. But the auditor is responsible...
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(LIAA52/27) Best Practices: Audit Workpapers & Proper Documentation
AU-C Section 230 requires that auditors maintain sufficient audit documentation throughout the engagement. Audit documentation is essential, as it serves as the evidence that auditors performed appropriate procedures to support their opinion on the financial statements. This course will cover the basis and best practices of audit workpapers and proper audit documentation, as well as...
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(LIAA49/27) Addressing Common Documentation Deficiencies
The Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative has identified inadequate or nonexistent audit documentation as one of the most significant issues facing the profession today. Over half of the engagements reviewed by the AICPA failed to meet the requirements of AU-C 230, highlighting a critical need for improvement.This course addresses common misconceptions about audit documentation and provides...
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(LIAA19/27) Common Deficiencies in SSARS Engagements
Preparation, compilation, and review engagements continue to receive heightened attention in peer review. This course examines the most common deficiencies identified in peer reviews of SSARS engagements, with an emphasis on practical compliance and engagement quality. Participants will explore frequent problem areas in preparation, compilation, and review engagements and discuss why these deficiencies occur. The...
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(LIAA46R/27) How to Audit Cash – Rebroadcast
Cash is essential to every business, and is often one of the first accounts audit staff are exposed to. This course will cover the basics of auditing cash, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to the cash balance. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff should...
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(SSAA128/27) Surgent’s Evaluating Sufficiency and Appropriateness of Audit Evidence
During a financial statement audit the auditor obtains an understanding of the entity and its environment (including its internal control), performs a risk assessment and from that work designs substantive procedures that will be responsive to the level of risk assessed. At the end of the audit, the auditor assesses the sufficiency and appropriateness of...
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