What does it take to have an effective quality control system that leads you to a clean, unmodified peer review report? Find out how to prepare for your next review and what can be done on a daily basis to create a strong quality control environment for your firm. Identify the most common significant deficiencies that peer reviews uncover and what you can do to prevent them from occurring in your firm. Consider the process for selecting the appropriate peer reviewer and determine the right review year-end for your firm.
If you have specialized engagements, such as governmental units, not-for-profit organizations, construction contractors, or employee benefit plans, this course examines the additional issues that may come into play.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be able to:
Recall how to create a firm environment that focuses on quality control
Recognize the basic steps for monitoring and inspections
Recall key considerations related to establishing a quality control system based on the Quality Control Standards
Recognize significant recurring engagement deficiencies and how to prevent them
Identify how to prepare for your next peer review - decisions to make and pulling together the right information
Major Topics
What to do between reviews to maintain a quality control environment and continually prepare for the next review
Common engagement deficiencies and how to prevent them
Selection process-the peer reviewer and the review year-end
Quality control standards overview
What you need to assemble for your reviewer
Peer review wrap-up expectations
Solutions to common quality control issues
Provider
AICPA
Course Level
Intermediate
Professional Area of Focus
Accounting & Auditing
CPE Field of Study
Auditing
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Who Should Attend
Practitioners subject to peer review who are involved in compiling, reviewing or auditing financial statements of small and midsize businesses
Instructor(s)
Salvatore Collemi
Prerequisites
Experience in providing audit, compilation and review services