Focus on building your technical expertise in audit to identify and resolve complex accounting and financial reporting issues. Improve your ability to lead and manage people and projects and enhance your firm's profitability. Reinforce key concepts using case studies, exercises, and illustrations. Highlights
* Critical traits of a thinking auditor * Stretching experienced auditors beyond the basics Audit quality control * Avoiding peer review deficiencies Fraud trends * Applying real-life lessons to in small- and mid-size entities Maximizing analytic procedure evidence * Adding value though useful financial statement analysis Internal controls to mitigate financial reporting risk * Designing stronger internal controls for small- or mid-size entities Auditing revenue recognition * Grasping the higher risks and special audit considerations Auditing contingencies and going concern uncertainty * Testing for completeness and proper disclosure Supervisor skills * Coaching staff to stay on the right track
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Course No. 712300Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites:
None
Notes
Designed for professionals with experience as leaders and two to three busy seasons of experience.
Speaker(s)
Jennifer Louis
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA
Biography
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has
over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing high-quality training
programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for
professional and organization success.In 2003, she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, where she focuses her
energy on designing and delivering high-quality, practical, and engaging
accounting and auditing training.She was most recently Director of
Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education, and prior to that
served as Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch,
Inc., a highly-respected training and audit process consulting firm.Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was
the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP.At the start of her professional career,
Jennifer was an Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she
frequently served as a local and national instructor.Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from
Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting.Besides loving life on the lake with her
husband in Charlotte, NC, she enjoys hiking with her little dog Frodo Beggins,
and savoring any precious moments spent with her two young adult
boys.