Essential Audit Skills and Audit Report Writing in Austin this Fall
Essential Audit Skills and Audit Report Writing in Austin this Fall
Two courses designed specifically for auditors - REGISTER TODAY!
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Essential Audit Skills (2-Day Course)
– October 24 & 25, 2011 -
The Art of the Finding
– November 14, 2011
Courses will be held at the Thompson Center on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas*
Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE hours!
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Essential Audit Skills – 2-Day Course
$290 for 16 hours of Governmental CPE
After several projects, the new auditor begins to piece together his or her role in the auditing process. Without an understanding of key audit skills, new auditors can easily spend valuable audit hours doing the wrong thing.
New auditors will feel more comfortable doing their work once they understand the essentials of each phase of the audit - planning, risk assessment, audit program design, fieldwork, working paper development, and issue development. This course covers the latest standards and concepts regarding risk assessment and internal control assessments and covers the basics of the auditor’s responsibilities for fraud detection.
Objectives:
- How to develop a finding or audit issue
- How to gather evidence for audit conclusions and opinions
- How to document what you’ve done in the working papers
- What the steps of the audit are and how your work fits in
- Which standards you must follow
- How to document and consider the risk of fraud
- How to evaluate the strength of internal controls
- When to discuss progress and issues with your supervisor
- How to distinguish between over-auditing and under-auditing
Program level: Beginning
Instructional method: Group live instruction
NASBA Category of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Advance Preparation: None
Who should attend: Auditors with less than one year of government audit experience. Auditors and monitors of governmental funds and programs who need to understand how to apply governmental auditing standards to their work and recipients of governmental funds who undergo auditing or monitoring from an oversight or granting agency. This course is applicable to both internal auditors and external auditors and monitors.
Recommended CPE credit: 16 hours of NASBA qualified hours that counts toward the 24 hour Yellowbook CPE requirements
Location: Thompson Center on the University of Texas Campus in Austin, Texas
Date: October 24 & 25, 2011
TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE:
1. Download and complete registration form
2. Fax or mail as directed on form (include payment if not paying online)
To pay online, click the register button below:
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SCHEDULE:
Registration: 8 a.m.
Course begins: 8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.
Day ends: 5:00 p.m.
The Art of the Finding
$180 for 8 hours of Yellow Book Qualified CPE
A logically organized finding is a gift to the reader and to the tax-paying public. By using a few key guidelines on content and organization, the team can create an audit report masterpiece! This course is centered on the Yellow Book and IIA requirements regarding audit findings and reports.
Objectives:
- Generate concise and logical findings in an hour or less
- Choose the strongest content for your finding
- Justify how much detail to share in the report
- Quantify findings
- Edit findings and provide meaningful feedback
Program level: Intermediate
Delivery method: Group live
Recommended CPE credit: 8 hours
Who should attend: Auditors who write or review audit reports
Location: Thompson Center on the University of Texas Campus in Austin, Texas
Hours: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Date: November 14, 2011
TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE:
1. Download and complete registration form
2. Fax or mail as directed on form (include payment if not paying online)
To pay online, click the register button below:
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SCHEDULE:
Registration: 8 a.m.
Course begins: 8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.
Day ends: 5:00 p.m.
Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA, CGFM, CGAP makes auditing fun and easy. Leita is the author of numerous self-study courses on governmental auditing including The Yellow Book Interpreted and The Risk Assessment SASs. She is the creator and owner of Yellowbook-CPE.com and has led over 900 seminars and workshops for state societies of CPAs, Western CPE, CPA firms, and federal and local government audit shops. She is a monthly columnist for Single Audit Magazine.www.auditskills.com
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Governmental auditors unite! Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA, CGFM, and CGAP is the author of “The Yellow Book Interpreted” and owner of Yellowbook-CPE.com a website devoted to training for governmental auditors. Whether you are an internal auditor or monitor for a government entity or a CPA doing grant audits, you will enjoy Leita’s humorous take on the complexity of auditing in the government environment.
