Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain

Available Anytime
Location: Online
8Credits
Accounting and Auditing
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FICPA Members
$170.00 Regular Price
Nonmembers
$215.00 Regular Price
Product Code: AI23-PRTC
Level: Intermediate
Vendor: AICPA CPE Division
Field of Study: Auditing

Overview:

Become a certified peer review team captain!

Learn the foundation of an effective peer review engagement and evaluation of a firm's system of quality control under the AICPA Practice-Monitoring Program.

As a future team and/or review captain, you will learn to successfully plan for, perform, and report on both system and engagement reviews. This two-part CPE course features an online self-study module and a group-study course entitled Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain: Case Study Application. Completion of both parts is required to become certified qualified as a peer review team captain

Objectives:

Learning Outcomes

  • Distinguish between the processes to effectively plan system and engagement peer reviews
  • Identify steps needed to understand a firm's system of quality control
  • Identify the differences between the various types of peer review reports
  • Select different recommendations for follow-up action to the administering entity
  • Identify the impact and effect that organizational issues have on a firm's system of quality control

Major Topics:

Key Topics

  • Evaluation of a firm's system of quality control
  • Steps in a peer review engagement
  • Writing peer review reports
  • Assisting firms in preparing letters of response
  • Planning and conducting the exit conference
  • The role and qualifications of the peer reviewer in system and engagement reviews
  • Objectives and requirements related to peer reviews in a peer review program
  • Engagement reviews and their distinct differences from system reviews

Designed For:

Who Will Benefit

  • Those who wish to become peer review team captain qualified.


Prerequisite:

Working knowledge and experience with the Statements on Quality Control Standards