Auditing Standards Update & Best Practices 2024
4.00 Credits
Member Price $159
Non-Member Price $209
Overview
In every audit, the auditor must identify and assess the risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. This process includes understanding the entity and its environment, including its internal control, thereby providing a basis for designing and implementing responses to the assessed risks of material misstatement. This program explores efficient ways to conduct audits (primarily for private companies), including discussing the applicable standards and their requirements.
Highlights
- Designing and performing sufficient audit procedures required for all audits, particularly when auditing privately-owned companies
- Identify controls that exist, especially when those controls are not clearly identified or formalized
- Evaluate if those controls prevent or detect material misstatements in the financial statements
- Design effective audit procedures (including testing of controls where appropriate) in response to the auditor's assessed risk of the potential material misstatements in the financial statements
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
CPAs performing audits of privately-owned companies will be able to plan their audit to perform effective risk assessment procedures, evaluate the control environment, and provide a platform to design appropriate additional audit procedures that respond to the assessed risks of material misstatement.
Objectives
- Are there identifiable controls that exist, and if so, are they documented?
- Is the lack of segregation of duties a major internal control weakness?
- Is there evidence of management override of existing controls?
- Does ownership/management determine estimated amounts in the financial statements without bias?
- Does ownership/management perform the required procedures to determine if a going concern exists?
- Do those charged with governance take responsibility for internal control over financial reporting?
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Eugene Ristaino, CalCPA Education Foundation
Gene Ristaino is a partner/member of Isdaner & Company, LLC, a local firm of 65 people in Bala Cynwyd PA (Philadelphia area) and is the director of accounting, auditing and quality control for the firm. Gene manages a diversified accounting practice (over 40 years of experience) specializing in the construction and real estate industries. He also provides consulting services for developers and contractors in cost certification and analysis, claim support and documentation, expert witness, business valuation and job cost system implementation and improvement. Gene has provided expert testimony and/or issued expert reports in numerous litigation support engagements involving real estate transactions, construction claims, family disputes and embezzlement cases. He has provided expert testimony in two Court appearances. He has also prepared construction contract claims, back charge reports, and damage reports in dispute litigation and arbitration. Gene is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) certified by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Valuation and/or Litigation engagements include construction contractors; leisure transportation; travel and tour agencies; manufacturing; real estate investment limited partnerships and LLCs; specialty restaurants; and family limited partnerships. Cases have included dissenting stockholder disputes; buy/sell transaction prices; estate and gift tax issues; and owner disputes. Gene has attended the Business Valuation Course, and the Fair Value Forum developed by the AICPA. Gene has a Masters in Taxation (MT), concentrating in corporate taxation, with a specialization in the real estate and construction industries. Gene’s diversified background includes a concentration in the governmental and not-for-profit auditing sectors, including HUD, Circular A-133 and the Single Audit, as well as healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, retail and service organizations. Gene is a national instructor for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and many state societies. He also lectures for many industry associations, and has authored numerous professional education programs, including several one-day seminars. Gene is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants and currently serves on the Peer review and A&A Procedures committees for the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Gene is a team captain for the AICPA Peer Review Program, and has performed numerous peer reviews under the AICPA Standards. Gene is a former adjunct professor of tax law for the Masters in Taxation Programs for Villanova University and Philadelphia University. He received his undergraduate BS degree in accounting from Drexel University, and earned his Masters in Taxation from Villanova University.
Non-Member Price $209
Member Price $159