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Index to Classes
Audit Planning: A Practical Approach to Integrating
the Standards
How to Perform an Executive Level Review of Accounting and Auditing Engagements
Internal Control and the COSO Report: What Every
Organization Needs to Know
Financial Statement Disclosure Issues
Advanced Training for Reviewers: Current Issues in
Practice Monitoring
Developing New Assurance Services in a
CPA Firm
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Control and the COSO Report Internal
Control and the COSO Report:
What Every Organization Needs to Know
| Category: Audit |
Level: Overview |
CPE Credit: 1-2 hours |
- You Should Attend If You:
- Want to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Are an organizational manager, internal auditor or an external CPA
- Want ideas for furthering organizational goals
- Course Summary:
This course revisits the basic concepts of the COSO report, which
established a common framework for an organization's internal control over the
areas of operations, financial reporting and compliance with laws and
regulation. A system of internal control help organizations
- Meet profitability goals
- Achieve their missions
- Minimize surprises along the way
At the end of the session, you'll know what your clients and organizations
need to know by understanding the answers to these questions:
- What are the important concepts of internal control?
- Why are these concepts important?
- Who benefits from internal control?
- Course Topics:
The course focuses on professional standards that apply directly to audit planning. The auditor's planning responsibilities rest primarily in these areas:
- Short COSO history
- Internal control needs and expectations
- Control environment
- Risk assessment
- Control activities
- Information and communication
- Monitoring
- Author:
Duane Reyhl, CPA is with the regional CPA firm of Andrews
Hooper & Pavlik, member of the Michigan Association of CPAs and is the former technical director of the Peer Review Program, California Society of CPAs. He works on the kind of audits he discusses in the course.
- How to Get this Course:
To obtain this course or to arrange for a presentation to your
organization, please contact:
- Duane Reyhl, CPA
116 Woodlawn Dr.
St. Charles, MI 48655
Phone: (989) 865-6520
E-mail: dreyhl@reyhl.com
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- Duane Reyhl, CPA
Andrews Hooper & Pavlik P.L.C.
5300 Gratiot
Saginaw, MI 48603
Phone: (989) 497-5300
E-mail: duane.reyhl@ahpplc.com
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