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(SSAA412/26) Surgent’s Preparing and Reviewing Client Prepared Financial Statements
The ultimate objective of a financial statement audit is to issue the independent auditor's report. This module discusses the process, introduces key elements of financial statements, and provides best practices for auditors who either prepare or review the client's financial statements. (Please Note: This module is part of Surgent's Audit Skills Training: Level 2.)
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(SSAA486/26) 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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(SSAA485/26) Surgent’s Guide and Update to Compilations, Reviews, and Preparations
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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(SSAA410/26) Surgent’s Fraud Risk Assessment Basics
The financial statement auditor's overall objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance as to whether the financial statements are materially misstated due to fraud or error and to issue a report that includes an opinion. As noted in the independent auditor's report, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than...
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(SSAA408/26) Surgent’s Performing Inventory Observations
Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) states that if inventory is material to the financial statements, the auditor should generally obtain evidence regarding the existence and condition of inventory by attending the entity's physical inventory count. The types of inventory an entity might have varies from industry to industry as does the risk of fraud or...
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(SSAA437/26) Surgent’s Current Issues in Accounting and Auditing: An Annual Update
Designed for accounting, auditing, and attestation practitioners at all levels in public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a detailed review of the multitude of FASB and AICPA standards and reports issued over the past few years, including a discussion of the FASB's Stage 3 PIR report on ASC 606. It also provides...
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(SSAA481/26) Surgent’s Audit Quality and Peer Review Update
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. Recent peer reviews have indicated that auditors are often failing to perform and/or document certain critical components of...
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(SSAA419/26) Surgent’s Accounting and Auditing Revenue
Revenue is often one of the largest and most significant line items in a company's financial statements. It is also the line item that is most susceptible to fraud. Further, all companies reporting under U.S. GAAP have either recently completed or are completing their transition to a complex new accounting standard for recognizing revenue from...
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(SSAA504/26) Surgent’s Fraud 101: Understanding Basic Fraud Schemes
This course will discuss common fraud schemes found in business transactions. The course also includes a conversation with Nathan Mueller, a reformed white-collar offender who committed financial statement fraud from a large financial institution.This is the first of five 2-hour courses in Surgent's Fraud Certificate Program. This program includes a combination of lectures, animated videos,...
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(SSAA568/26) Surgent’s Preparation and Compilation Engagements Under the SSARS
Be the go-to person on financial statement compilation and preparation engagements. Specifically designed for those performing preparation and compilation engagements, this course will provide you with a hands-on application for performing preparation and compilation engagements under AR-C Section 70 and 80, respectively. You will learn the ins and outs of relevant sections of the SSARS...
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