Comprehensive Audit & SSARS Update

Oct 22
9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Online

4-A&A
CPE Credits

This course covers recently issued standards from the AICPA Auditing Standards Board and AICPA Accounting and Review Services Committee including the new Quality Management Standards. The session will highlight projects in progress at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. The course will also recap recent changes and present common peer review findings and best practices to improve practice quality. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

Recall the most recent changes in auditing, reviews, compilations and other attestation engagements
Apply practice tips for achieving high quality engagements.
Recognize updates on enhancing audit quality
Analyze AICPA’s new Quality Management Standards
Recognize trends in the practice landscape, how AICPA’s Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative is improving practice quality
Recall SQMS implementation resources.

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

AICPA Accounting and Review Services Committee standards update and new practice aid
AICPA Auditing Standards Board standards update including recent changes to the audit and attestation standards
AICPA’s new Quality Management Standards - Overview, implementation considerations, timeline, and AICPA implementation resources
PCAOB, IAASB standard-setting agenda and potential future AICPA ASB standards changes
Update on AICPA’s Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative
Trends in audit quality including the DOL’s audit quality study
Frequent peer review findings and practice tips for achieving high practice quality
Latest on the DOL’s audit quality study

Registration

PICPA Member: $109
Nonmember: $159

More Information

Course No. PAAHCAS4 Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Notes
You will receive an email confirmation with the course link and details. This email will come from webinars@cpacrossings.com. If you do not receive this email immediately after your registration has been processed, first check your spam folder. If you still cannot locate the email, call the CPA Crossings Webinar Helpdesk at 877.370.2220 for assistance.

Speaker(s)

Allison Henry

Vice President - Professional & Technical Standard

Allison M. Henry, CPA
Vice President, Professional & Technical Standards
PICPA

Allison, who has been with the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) since 2003, works to elevate CPA practice quality through advocacy, outreach, and education. She currently administers PICPA’s Joint Ethics Enforcement Program with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), oversees the administration of the AICPA’s Peer Review Program for Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and U.S. Virgin Island firms, monitors emerging global trends in the accounting profession, and serves as the PICPA technical liaison for several statewide committees and working groups that reach out to regulatory agencies in Pennsylvania on behalf of the profession. She frequently shares her expertise by speaking at PICPA events, hosting webinars on key topics, teaching ethics and accounting and auditing training, writing for the CPA Now blog, writing articles for the Pennsylvania CPA Journal, and fielding technical and media inquiries.

Before joining the PICPA, Allison spent several years as a senior manager with a regional accounting firm and nine years at Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she worked in the assurance and advisory services group. Allison’s diverse client service experience has included many not-for-profit, health care, and world relief organizations, as well as small and large manufacturing, distribution, and service-oriented entities. She has also served as the designated employee benefits specialist.

Allison is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and holds an accounting equivalency from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. She spent four years in internal accounting positions, including the Department of Defense, while her husband served on active duty with the U.S. Army.

Allison recently completed the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Certificate Program from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and obtained AICPA’s Blockchain Fundamentals for Accounting and Finance Professionals Certificate.

Allison is a member of the PICPA and AICPA. She volunteers for various local ministries and is a member of River of Life Church. She is a native of St. Louis, Mo.

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