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Auditing Bits in Bytes™ Session 6: Engagement Wrap-Up

Description

This 2-hour session focuses on all activities that occur during the wrap-up phase of the engagement. This aspect of an audit engagement is where all good intentions are at risk of unraveling and creating deficiencies in audit quality and compliance with professional and regulatory standards.

Develop a game plan for successful audits, learn more about MACPA’s Auditing Bits in Bytes™.

Learning Objectives
  • Recognize how lack of audit documentation may unravel all good intentions as it relates to audit quality and profitability
  • Identify circumstances where modification of the standard audit report would be appropriate
  • Recall all activities that occur during the engagement wrap-up phase of the engagement, which includes general audit procedures, audit report drafting, and audit report release
Major Topics
  • Audit Documentation – Key considerations in quality control
  • Audit Report Dating – How to handle “real-life” issues/concerns encountered by firms (e.g., issuing multiple audit reports with an appropriate audit report date, subsequent events identified after audit report date but prior to report release date, sufficiently fulfilling the document completion date requirements, etc.)
  • Audit Report Modifications – Appropriate circumstances to add emphasis-of-matter or other-matter paragraphs, or when to modify the opinion
    General Procedures Considerations: Going Concern, Subsequent Events, Attorney’s Letters, Management Representation Letter, and more!
  • Extensive illustrative examples will be used to reinforce a practical understanding of the most critical principles and standards that support a high-quality, insightful, and profitable engagement.
Provider
Business Learning Institute
Course Level
Basic
Professional Area of Focus
Accounting & Auditing
CPE Field of Study
Auditing
2.0
Who Should Attend
  • Anyone who is new to auditing or desires a refresher in how to perform effective and efficient financial statement audits for non-issuers in accordance with professional and regulatory standards (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and Yellow Book.
  • Anyone who is new to auditing or desires a refresher in how to perform effective and efficient financial statement audits for non-issuers in accordance with professional and regulatory standards (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and Yellow Book.
Instructor(s)
Jennifer Louis
Prerequisites
  • None
Advanced Preparation
  • None

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Event Information
When
Available 24/7
Location
Online
Total CPE Credits
2.0
Format
On-Demand

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Auditing Bits in Bytes™ Session 6: Engagement Wrap-Up


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