Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English
2.00 Credits
Member Price $79
Non-Member Price $109
Overview
Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English, is a 2 hour webcast highlighting the AICPA’s clarified risk assessment standards, along with a new Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS 145) related to understanding the entity, the entity’s environment, the entity’s internal controls, and assessing the risks of material misstatement. This session will attempt to simplify the requirements using common sense examples and language.
Highlights
- Overview of Audit Risk Assessment
- AICPA's clarified Risk Assessment Standards
- SAS 145
- Assessing the Entity's Environment
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Industry and Public Accountants
Objectives
- Understand the AICPA's clarified risk assessment standards and their importance in the auditing process.
- Familiarize oneself with the key components of the new Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS 145) related to understanding the entity, the entity's environment, the entity's internal controls, and assessing the risks of material misstatement.
- Develop an understanding of the relationship between audit risk assessment and the overall audit strategy.
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Christopher Pembrook, Shareholder, Crawford & Associates, PC
Chris Pembrook, CPA, MBA, CGAP, Cr.FA, is a shareholder at Crawford & Associates, CPAs, P.C., an accounting firm specializing in providing auditing, consulting and accounting services solely to governmental entities. He is currently serving as a member of the AICPA State and Local Government Expert Panel and the OSCPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee. Pembrook was selected to serve on the joint COSO-ACFE-AICPA Task Force for the development of the group’s Fraud Risk Management Guide. He also served on the AICPA task force that helped establish the AICPA’s new single audit advanced expert certification program.
Frank Crawford III, President, Crawford & Associates, PC
Frank Crawford, CPA, is president of Crawford & Associates, CPAs, P.C., an accounting firm in Oklahoma City. The firm specializes in providing auditing, consulting and accounting services solely to governmental entities and is a member of the AICPA and the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center. Over the last 36 years, Crawford & Associates has provided a variety of audit and accounting services to all sizes of government including many types of financial statement audits and attestation services, fraud investigations, internal control analysis, accounting policy and procedure development, outsourced internal auditing and internal monitoring, developing management anti-fraud programs and controls, quality assurance reviews, training and expert witness services. Crawford served as chairman of the AICPA Government Expert Panel from 2004-2008. He has been involved in a number of other AICPA committees and task force groups, U.S. Federal Government Agencies, various local and national CPA firms and a number of state societies.
Non-Member Price $109
Member Price $79