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(SSAA446/26) Surgent’s Auditing 401(k) Plans: Critical Issues and Annual Update
Due to increasing scrutiny in the employee benefit plan area, it is imperative for auditors of 401(k) plans to remain up to date on the rules and regulations that may impact the audit engagement.In this course, auditors will enhance their knowledge by understanding the changes affecting audit procedures and reporting in accordance with recently issued...
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(SSAA587/26) 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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(SSAA450/26) Surgent’s AICPA Update
Designed for accounting and auditing practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides an overview of recently issued AICPA auditing and attest standards that will be effective for December 31, 2022 audits and beyond. Next, the course will review ethics interpretations recently issued by the Professional Ethics Executive...
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(SSAA512/26) Surgent’s Proven Controls to Steer You Clear of Fraud
Every organization in the world will fall victim to fraud. This course will cover the means and methods available to reduce the prevalence of fraud. We will also discuss the controls that victim organizations employ in order to seek improvements for our own organizations.
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(SSAA591/26) Surgent’s Surging Auditors: Searching for Unrecorded Liabilities
The manager for Home D‚cor and More (HDM) requests that participants conduct a search for unrecorded liabilities. The company experienced recent turnover in the accounts payable department so there is extra concern that all liabilities have been captured as of year-end. Participants will use their expertise to make resource requests from the HDM accounting team....
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(SSAA424/26) Surgent’s Auditing Accounting Estimates
As you advance in your audit careers, your responsibilities include auditing more subjective areas, such as accounting estimate. These estimates are pervasive across a set of financial statements and are often very sensitive to relatively small changes in assumptions, which can have a significant impact on the amount of the estimate that is recorded, or...
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(SSAA537/26) Surgent’s IA Module 7 — Internal Audit (IA) Engagement Management and Administration
Proper planning and execution of an audit program at the overall activity and individual engagement level requires highly effective management and administration to promote, support, and ensure maximum value adding assurance for organizational stakeholders. This course helps Internal Auditors at all levels better understand the practical and required engagement managerial responsibilities involved with the IA...
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(SSAA402/26) Surgent’s Performing Preparation, Compilation, Review and Engagements
CPA firms generally perform a significant number of preparation, compilation and review engagements under the Statements of Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS). Compilations and reviews are performed as attest engagements where preparation engagements do not require independence and as such are considered non-attest engagements. Reviews, like audits are considered assurance services. Reviews provide...
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(SSAA589/26) Surgent’s Surging Auditors: Internal Out of Control
In this hands-on game, participants are helping to prepare an internal control testing plan for Home D‚cor & More (HDM). They must assess controls related to HDM's inventory cycle to determine which financial statement assertions each control satisfies, the quality of the control's design, and whether there is adequate segregation of duties. Then, they will...
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(SSAA420/26) Surgent’s Accounting for and Auditing Leases
Accounting for and auditing leases was always a challenging task. Adding the implementation of the lease accounting guidance in ASC 842, Leases, will undoubtedly add that much more complexity to this audit area.In this module, we will review the new lease accounting model for lessees, compare and contrast the new model with the existing guidance...
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