Description

Auditing for today’s world

Remoting auditing is happening everywhere you turn. Understanding the considerations for a remote audit and the specific techniques for performing the engagement will help you integrate remote auditing into your practice.

You will learn how to:

- Leverage the benefits of remote auditing

- Manage the team, client, and audit process remotely

- Identify engagement-wide procedures from client acceptance through report issuance when remote auditing

- Identify and obtain audit evidence for generally material accounts

Instructor: Daryl Krause

Target Audience

· Auditors

Course Objectives

· Identify why remote auditing has become an important skill.

· Recall the general characteristics of a remote audit.

· Identify techniques for managing your team, the client, and the remote audit process.

· Identify the considerations for engagement-wide audit procedures, including client acceptance, risk assessment, fraud, and documentation.

· Recall the considerations for obtaining and using audit evidence and for professional skepticism when conducting a remote audit.

· Identify general considerations for auditing significant asset and liability accounts.

· Identify techniques that can be used in remote walk-throughs and controls testing.

· Recall techniques to effectively perform inventory procedures when conducting a remote audit.

Subjects

· Benefits of remote auditing

· How to manage the team, the client, and the audit process remotely

· Engagement-wide procedures, from client acceptance through report issuance when remote auditing

· Narrow-topic considerations when remote auditing