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Specialized training

Our team of technical experts with extensive industry experience offers on-site or virtual customized training and consulting to meet your various needs. Public seminars cover areas such as accounting and auditing updates, employee benefit plans, review and compilation services, PPC methodology essentials, and single audit. You can also tailor a private one-on-one seminar with a firm-selected audit topic or select from the available specialized courses.

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Training options

Peer review insights

This course will discuss the current environment of peer reviews, including the focus of peer reviewers. We will discuss the most common findings found in peer review, especially those related to the most recently adopted auditing standards. We will discuss best practices to assist you and your teams in performing more effective engagements and for your next peer review.

6 CPE credits | auditing | intermediate

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Peer review remediation

This customized course helps your firm address deficiencies or findings from peer reviews. It covers required continuing professional education (CPE) in areas like risk assessment, internal controls, audit documentation, and auditing estimates. We work with your management to design and deliver a course that meets peer reviewer and report acceptance body (RAB) requirements and helps prevent future deficiencies.

8 CPE credits | auditing | intermediate

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Accounting and auditing update

We deliver what you need to know about newly issued authoritative pronouncements of the FASB and AICPA — along with other developments of interest to practitioners serving small- and middle-market businesses. We update course material throughout the year, so it is always current. We tailor the discussion to your firm by reviewing the agenda with you and focusing on the items most relevant to your practice.

Public: 6 CPE credits | Private: 16 CPE credits | auditing, accounting | intermediate

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PPC methodology essentials

This course provides practical guidance from expert AuditWatch consultants on how to conduct efficient and effective audits using PPC’s Guide to Audits of Nonpublic Companies. It highlights the latest implementation guidance from standard setters and best practices using the current PPC practice aids. Major topics include risk assessment, formulating the audit strategy, audit planning, evaluating and testing internal controls, designing and performing further audit procedures, audit sampling, wrapping up the engagement, and documentation.

8 CPE credits | auditing | intermediate

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Performing effective and efficient single audits

This seminar will walk you through the planning, risk assessment, and testing required for a single audit using the PPC methodology. If you are new to single audits or just want to have a better understanding of the requirements to execute an audit in accordance with the Uniform Guidance and Yellowbook, this course will provide the tools you need to be successful.

8 CPE credits | auditing (governmental) | intermediate

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Federal Tax Update

Federal Tax Update covers the latest developments affecting individuals, partnerships, C corporations, S corporations, and limited liability companies (LLCs). We’ve designed it to keep you up to date in this dynamic environment. The objective of this course is to provide participants with practical, working knowledge of the latest tax law changes that will enable effective tax planning, compliance, and consultation engagements during the coming year.

8 CPE credits | auditing | intermediate

Train the trainer

In this highly interactive Train the Trainer course, professionals discover and leverage the characteristics of exceptional trainers. Topics include fundamental presentation techniques; understanding the audience and environment; using structure to select, design, and deliver your message; engaging the audience; dealing with nervousness; questioning and responding techniques; managing audience behavior; visual aids; and tips for co-presenting.

8 CPE credits | communication and marketing | intermediate

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Presentation skills

In this highly interactive Presentation Skills course, professionals discover and leverage the characteristics of exceptional presenters. The primary focus is effectively using your mind, body, face, and voice to engage your audience and get your message across. Additionally, participants will enhance their ability to understand the audience and environment, use structure to select and design content, deal with nervousness, use questioning and responding techniques, manage audience behavior, use visual aids, and co-present.

8 CPE credits | communications and marketing | intermediate

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Performing effective and efficient employee benefit plan audits

Discover the ins and outs of performing effective and efficient employee benefit plan audits. The Performing Effective and Efficient Employee Benefit Plan Audits seminar will help your team understand the foundational components of employee benefit plan audits with a focus on 401(k) plans. You will cover topics such as the differences between financial statement and employee benefit plan audits, the risks in employee benefit plan audits and how to develop appropriate audit procedures to address those risks, the unique compliance auditing requirements for employee benefit plans, and additional compliance procedures for an employee benefit plan audit beyond the traditional financial statement procedures.

Public: 6 CPE credits | Private: 8 CPE credits | auditing | basic to intermediate

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Best practices for performing review and compilation engagements

We’ve designed this course for accountants in public practice who want to increase their quality and efficiency in compilation and review engagements. We will address the most recent SSARS standards, improving analytical procedures in review engagements, and best practices for review and compilation engagements. After attending this course, you will be able to describe how to calculate materiality for a review engagement, identify and execute review procedures, list common peer review comments from review and compilation engagements, identify and execute compilation procedures, and more.

Public: 6 CPE credits | Private: 8 CPE credits | auditing | basic to intermediate

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