Audit Staff Essentials - Experienced In-Charge/Senior

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.