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AHI Beginning in Charge Staff Training (Level 3) 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024 - Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Best Western Hotel & Suites Okemos, MI
Course # 160092 | by AHI Associates
What you will learn

To enable experienced staff to advance more quickly to higher levels of responsibility and to become more profitable to their firms by helping them better plan and efficiently complete audits, supervise staff, review working papers and interact with partners and clients.

Note: Bring a calculator or a phone with a calculator app with you.

Description

Improve your planning, review, audit and other engagement skills. Master techniques for effective communication with clients and colleagues in part three of this five-course series. Discover the secrets to planning and efficiently completing engagements, explore methods for assuming higher levels of responsibility, develop your ability to assess risk and materiality and learn to make non-statistical sampling decisions. Designed to offer audit staff members extensive training in crucial procedural, evaluative and supervisory areas.

Prerequisites:
None

Advanced Preparation:
None

PRICING DETAILS
Register early to take advantage of the best price! Please note, discounted pricing is already reflected in the online price. No promo code is needed.
Through September 30: $775 MICPA Members / $1,225 Non-Members
October 1 - October 14: $795 MICPA Members / $1,245 Non-Members
October 15 - October 30: $815 MICPA Members / $1,265 Non-Members

  • What is Expected of the In–Charge
    • Participants first build a composite list of the responsibilities of an effective in–charge based on their firms’ practices. The list is then used as a basis for discussing the kinds of actions that participants can take to improve their chances for achieving success in their firms.
  • Plan Engagements
    • The in–charge’s responsibilities for engagement planning are the focal points for this session. The steps that should be followed in proper planning are identified through the use of a case. This is followed by a discussion of the deterrents to planning that exist in actual practice and identification of ways to partially or fully overcome the deterrents. The emphasis in the entire planning session is on how to plan more effectively in order to improve the efficiency and quality of the engagement.
  • Assess Risk and Materiality
    • The major case in this module requires participants to 
      1. determine planning and performance materiality 
      2. assess engagement risk, inherent risk and control risk and then 
      3. link these results to the audit procedures needed to reduce detection risk for specific accounts to an appropriate level.
    • Emphasis is placed on minimizing engagement cost while still performing a high-quality audit. The final case requires participants to assess the risk of fraud, including conducting a fraud brainstorming session for a typical client.
  • Nonstatistical Audit Sampling
    • Nonstatistical audit sampling concepts are typically difficult for participants to apply to audit engagements. This module begins with a discussion on properly applying audit standards. In a case continued from the previous module, participants practice making correct sampling decisions for the audit of one major financial statement account. The final case illustrates the concept of projecting sample misstatements to the population, including the consideration of sampling error.
  • Meet Client Needs
    • One purpose of this session is to illustrate the four primary elements of effective selling and how these elements can be used by in–charges to help the firm sell additional services to existing clients. Using the conclusions reached, a general discussion is held about how to use management letters as a client relations and sales tool. There is specific discussion on the purposes of management letters, elements of effective letters, development of management letter ideas and writing better letters.
  • Complete Engagements
    • Inexperienced in–charges typically have difficulty completing an engagement. This session is designed to give them ideas and teach them how to do a better job in that area. Early problem identification, tying up loose ends throughout the engagement, early review of assistants’ work and self-review are stressed as ways to reduce completing-the-engagement difficulties.
  • Review Assistants’ Work
    • This session emphasizes identifying objectives and developing a methodology in reviewing assistants’ working papers. Early review, proper documentation and effective communication of review notes are essential parts of the discussion. A major case provides practice in reviewing a section of a set of working papers.
  • Supervision
    • Supervision and motivation of assistants is introduced in this program to help participants understand the importance of good supervision and to teach them some on-the-job supervision techniques. Fundamental characteristics of good supervisors and common characteristics found in poor supervisors are identified through a series of short case studies. These topics are further developed in our next level of training: Level IV – Supervisory: Management & Leadership Essentials.

Beginning in-charge audit staff with 2-3 years experience. Note: The experience level is only a guideline, actual experience levels may vary.

  • Auditing
  • Business Management & Organization

  • Bruce J. Dunn Jr.
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Speakers: Bruce J. Dunn Jr.
Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Total Credits: 24.0
Earn Up To: 19.8 AA, 4.2 OT credits
Level: Intermediate
Vendor: AHI Associates
Venue: Best Western Hotel & Suites
2209 University Park Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
MICPA delivers the highest quality education experience. If you are not satisfied with your course, call us at 1.855.594.4273. We will make it right.
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