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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Live Webcast

Avoiding the Most Misapplied Audit Concepts (X2-58342)

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST
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8 CPE Credits in AA

OVERVIEW

Recent new auditing standards are designed to improve overall audit quality. The course will address the most common misapplied audit concepts in planning and performing effective and efficient financial statement audits.

DESIGNED FOR

Any financial statement auditor who wishes to learn how to be more effective and efficient on engagements.

BENEFITS

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

  • Analyze the nature, timing, and extent of planned audit procedures that can (and should) vary commensurate with assessed risk of material misstatement.
  • Assess common deficiencies in performing and documenting further audit procedures, including tests of details.
  • Recall tips for strengthening the design, documentation and evaluation of substantive analytic procedures.
  • Recognize how to properly satisfy the requirement to evaluate and communicate internal control matters noted during the course the financial statement audit.

HIGHLIGHTS

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

  • Risk Assessment - Properly assessing inherent, control, and detection risk on an engagement, and linking the results to an appropriately tailored detailed audit plan based on risk assessment and client service goals, regardless of entity type.
  • Substantive Analytics- Leveraging strong substantive analytic procedures as audit evidence to cut back on tests of details.
  • Selecting items to test common misunderstandings related to designing, performing and concluding on tests of details, including sampling.
  • Identifying and Evaluating Internal Control Deficiencies - Emphasizing the importance of identifying both design and operating effectiveness deficiencies during the course of the audit, and how to properly categorize deficiencies as inconsequential, significant or material for impact on the audit or required communications with management and those charged with governance.

COURSE LEVEL

Basic

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

Jennifer Louis

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA

President

Emergent Solutions Group

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success. In 2003, she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, where she focuses her energy on designing and delivering high-quality, practical, and engaging accounting and auditing training. She was most recently Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly-respected training and audit process consulting firm. Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP. At the start of her professional career, Jennifer was an Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she frequently served as a local and national instructor. Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting. Besides loving life on the lake with her husband in Charlotte, NC, she enjoys hiking with her little dog Frodo Beggins, and savoring any precious moments spent with her two young adult boys

PRICING

$229.00 - Member

$249.00 - Nonmember

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Note: Online pre-registration will close on February 10 at 9:30 AM.

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