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October 30 - 31, 2017 Live

Audit Staff Essentials – Experienced Staff (E1710281)

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM EDT each day

Registration: 8:00 AM EDT

NJCPA Education Center

425 Eagle Rock Avenue,
Roseland , NJ 07068

16 CPE Credits in AA

OVERVIEW

Experienced staff take on an expanded role on engagements with more technical or advanced accounting and auditing topics. This course will provide discussion, examples and exercises that focus on the increasingly advanced topics that those staff with 1-2 years of experience will commonly be tasked with. From accounts receivable to inventory price testing and obsolescence, this course takes these types of widely used accounts into their more complex areas. Along with an application-based discussion of common account balances and transactions, the course discusses other topics key to a successful and well-rounded experienced staff member, including tasks such as risk assessment, sampling, engagement management and supervision, and working paper review.

DESIGNED FOR

Experienced audit staff.

BENEFITS

  • Recall the key skills related to engagement management and supervision
  • Identify the reason for working paper review and techniques to achieve the quality expected
  • Identify the key basic considerations of risk assessment and its effect on the audit
  • Recall the purpose, basic theory, and common procedures surrounding audit sampling
  • Identify the audit procedures typically performed by experienced staff in the following advanced areas and match them to stated audit objectives and relevant assertions: accounts receivable; debt; inventory; accrued expenses; stockholders’ equity

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Risk assessment
  • Engagement management and supervision
  • Working paper review
  • Sampling
  • Basic auditing procedures for areas commonly assigned to experienced staff members

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

1-2 years of audit experience.

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • *This seminar is not eligible for the AICPA discount.
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  • The NJCPA Emerging Leaders Council is hosting a Food Drive to benefit the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. Please bring your nonperishable items and canned goods to this event. Peanut butter and tuna fish are always needed.

INSTRUCTOR

Anne Marchetti

Anne M. Marchetti

AICPA/Professional Development Institute

Anne M. Marchetti Naples, FL Anne M. Marchetti has over 25 of years of finance and accounting experience in both private industry and public accounting. She is a Sarbanes-Oxley subject matter expert focused on the design, implementation, analysis and optimization of internal control systems as well as corporate governance and risk management programs. As a thought leader in this area, she developed a compliance methodology in conjunction with a delivery framework and has spoken at numerous conferences as well as published several articles on this particular subject. Ms. Marchetti has worked globally with both public and private entities in most industries as well as organizations of all sizes. She regularly interacts with external audit firms as a liason on behalf of these organizations. She authored 3 books entitled Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance – Effective Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley On-going Compliance Guide and Enterprise Risk Management Best Practices: From Assessment to Ongoing Compliance.

Ms. Marchetti served as the Global Service Line Director – Governance and Risk Management Practice at Parson Consulting. As the Practice Director she worked with numerous clients on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives and frequently collaborated as well as presented to Board’s of Directors in regard to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Corporate Governance and Enterprise Risk Management. Ms. Marchetti leverages this experience with a unique blend of technical skills which include management of ERP software implementations from a technology, process and accounting perspective. She has designed training programs for Board of Directors and Audit Committees as well as end users and consultants on various business software applications, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, ERM in addition to IFRS and has conducted over 200 formal training seminars.

Anne currently operates Account-Ability Consulting and provides advisory and consulting services in the areas of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, internal controls optimization, corporate governance, enterprise risk management, IFRS, financial system implementation and training/education. Anne is a recipient of the Association’s Outstanding Facilitator Award.

PRICING

$599.00 - Nonmember

$399.00 - Member

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ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

Print a registration form

COURSE DEVELOPER

AICPA/NJCPA