Audit Staff Essentials: Audit Working Papers 2024
16.00 Credits
Member Price $589
Non-Member Price $779
Overview
Audit working papers provide the necessary evidence that the audit was planned and performed per US generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) and meeting legal and regulatory requirements. This course will describe the various audit documentation requirements in US GAAS and the different other purposes, such as assisting the engagement team in planning and performing the audit, directing and supervising, directing work and reviewing the audit work. Audit work papers should document the procedures performed, the audit evidence examined, and the conclusions and judgments reached by the audit team.
Highlights
- Proper audit documentation techniques
- Audit quality standards as they pertain to audit documentation
- Nature and extent of audit documentation
- Examples of audit work papers
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Entry level audit professionals.
Objectives
- Understand the documentation requirements in professional standards
- Identify common work paper deficiencies
- Discuss how to prepare audit work papers properly
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Robert Bedwell, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC
Bob Bedwell, CPA, is an Audit and Advisory Principal at Mallah Furman, with over 35 years of audit and accounting experience. Bob regularly assists clients with a full range of corporate audit and assurance services, including financial statement preparation, auditing, SEC reporting, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence, financing regulatory compliance, accounting system oversight, internal controls, IFRS conversions, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance advisory, and the independent review of external data.
Bob has been a discussion leader on numerous topics for the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as well as for the firms for which he has worked, and has received high evaluations for his knowledge of topics and presentation skills.
Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, and has also earned a Masters in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University. Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Florida, Bob is a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and the International Association of Practicing Accountants (IAPC). He has previously served as chairman of the FICPA Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee.
Non-Member Price $779
Member Price $589
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