Audit Staff Essentials - Experienced In-Charge/Senior + CPExpress

In-depth audit knowledge

A comprehensive knowledge base of best practices can help you become a well-prepared, well-rounded audit professional.

As a senior auditor, you can grow this knowledge base by exploring the intricacies of advanced audit topics and complex concepts, such as revenue recognition, deferred income taxes, estimates and fair value, financial reporting, and the auditor's report.

Advancing your career through expert knowledge

You can become an expert in your current position or prepare to progress through your career by exploring advanced topics in auditing. You can even join other staff members for your firm's comprehensive group training program. Level 4 courses include:

• Engagement Management and Supervision
• Risk Assessment and Advanced Considerations for the System of Internal Control
• Auditing Revenue Recognition
• Auditing Deferred Income Taxes
• Auditing Estimates and Fair Value
• Using a Service Organization and the Use of a Specialist
• Overview of Financial Reporting
• Concluding the Audit - Reporting and Engagement Administration

About Audit Staff Essentials − Your audit learning journey

From start to finish, Audit Staff Essentials (ASE) provides the training roadmap and support you need along your career journey.

Designed to help you master your current position and excel in each phase of your career, this self-study series offers four levels that cover hands-on technical skills, conceptual expertise, and soft skill training.

Updated regularly

Regularly refreshed, this series is perfect for individual staff members or as a comprehensive group training program for firms.

Scaffolded learning

Get ready to position yourself or your staff members to become successful auditors and essential firm members.

Levels include:

• Level 1 – New Staff Core Concepts
• Level 2 – New Staff Practical Application
• Level 3 – Experienced Staff or New In Charge
• Level 4 – Experienced In Charge or Senior

Who Will Benefit

In-charge and experienced audit staff with more than two to three years of audit experience

Key Topics

• Risk assessment
• Internal controls
• Engagement management and supervision
• Revenue recognition
• Estimates and fair value measurements
• Pensions, leases, equity, and income taxes
• Using a service organization
• Financial reporting
• Concluding the audit

Learning Outcomes

• Apply the key skills related to engagement management and supervision.
• Apply the procedures needed in increasingly complex audit and accounting areas.
• Identify the considerations for proper financial reporting, including financial statement preparation.
• Identify the components of an auditor's report and under which circumstances modifications will be made.

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Create and customize your learning experience with topics relevant to your professional development. CPExpress accumulates your CPE certificates for easy tracking. You can also print or save your CPE certificates to independently document your training.

Flexibility for your schedule. CPE courses for your jurisdictions.

As a licensed CPA, you're required to meet continuing professional education (CPE) requirements for the jurisdictions in which you practice. CPExpress makes it easier to meet state and other jurisdiction requirements because you can learn on your schedule. Never stress about a CPE deadline again!

Courses are presented in one- or two-hour increments to provide learning that works within your schedule so you can choose to:

• Earn CPE at a steady rate over time, throughout the reporting year
• Complete training in a crunch or when you have a window open up in your calendar
• Complete a series of courses back-to-back, or start a course and resume it later

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Find all of your learning in one place. With hundreds of quality CPE courses to fit your needs, you'll get current and relevant content with the flexibility you want and need.

20 years of delivering CPE convenience

On a tight schedule? Exploring new opportunities? Looking for the latest from your field? For 20 years, CPExpress has been a comprehensive and convenient source of CPE for finance and accounting professionals. Hundreds of content available in short-duration format, covering essential accounting topics and updated regularly — that’s CPExpress for you.