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(SSAA441/26) Surgent’s Annual Accounting and Auditing Update
Designed for accounting and attestation practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a comprehensive review of recent standard-setting activities of the FASB and AICPA. In addition to providing a detailed review of SAS No. 145, this course will bring you up to date on FASB and AICPA...
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(SSAA499/26) Surgent’s Focus on Engagement Quality: How to Avoid Deficiencies in Peer Reviews
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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(SSAA570/26) Surgent’s Performing a Preparation Engagement Under AR-C Section 70
Be the go-to person for financial statement preparation engagements. Specifically designed for preparation practitioners and their staff, this course will provide you with a hands-on application for performing preparation engagements under AR-C Section 70. You will learn the ins and outs of relevant sections of SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, the most significant change...
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(SSAA602/26) Surgent’s Update on Recent AICPA Standard Setting: Staying Current in a Changing Environment
Professional standards are changing with the times and the desire of the AICPA to move the profession into a new era where use of technology will play a key role in an audit and professional skepticism, independence, and quality are emphasized. We are seeing changes already as the AICPA has issued 15 new standards since...
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(SSAA480/26) Surgent’s Technology Trends and Risks of Interest to CPAs
Never have the benefits, and related risks, of utilizing new technology been greater for those in the accounting profession. From Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation(RPA), and Audit Data Analytics (ADA) to cloud-based software solutions, our clients' technology landscape is rapidly changing. Accordingly, we, as accounting professionals, need to be on the forefront of these...
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(SSAA566/26) Surgent’s Performing a Compilation Engagement Under AR-C Section 80
Be the go-to person for financial statement compilation engagements. Specifically designed for compilation practitioners and their staff, this course will provide you with a hands-on application for performing compilation engagements under AR-C Section 80. You will learn the ins and outs of relevant sections of SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, the most significant change...
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(SSAA538/26) Surgent’s IA Module 8 — The Internal Audit (IA) Activity Quality/Excellence Continuum!
A commitment to excellence requires dedication toward self-improvement in whatever endeavor we choose, including being Internal Audit (IA) professionals. Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once said: "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their field of endeavor." And Aristotle, speaking some 2,500 years earlier, has...
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(SSAA588/26) Surgent’s Surging Auditors: Professional Skeptic
Participants play the role of an auditor collecting information, making inquiries, and documenting findings around the audit of Home D‚cor and More. They develop professional skepticism skills as they analyze data obtained from an interview with Courtney the Controller, comparing, confirming, and corroborating it against information provided by the CFO. Some things aren't matching up...
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(SSAA491/26) Surgent’s Fraud Basics: Protecting the Company Till
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. The...
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(SSAA498/26) 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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