Booking Information
Once you have booked your course, the link to the
recording will be available in your "My Account" area
Please be aware that you will have
access to this course for 180 days from the date of purchase
This course was recorded on April 2022 and is suitable for accountants,
auditors, and other business professionals, both from small and mid-sized
practices and in business, from across the island of Ireland.
Course overview
- Audit Planning, including key changes to your Audit Planning Memorandum,
and gaining an understanding of how the revised Ethical Standards impact on
your audit,
- New Going Concern requirements under the revised ISA 570,
- Auditing Accounting Estimates under the revised ISA 540 and increased
level of uncertainties,
- Changes to the Quality Management and IES Procedures for 2022 that you
need to know,
- The new and increased Audit Risks that you face at this time, such as
fraud and how ISA 240 changes will impact your work,
- Enhanced Audit Completion Procedures/documentation, including the Letter
of Representation,
- Typical areas for improvement in the audit of SMEs, as identified by both
the Institute Professional Standards and Practice Consulting teams;
- New Audit of Less Complex Entities Proposals; and
- Using the Institute COVID-19 Audit Programme to best effect.
While recent enhancements to the Institute PQAs will be referenced during
this session, the key audit issues covered throughout the course will make it
also highly relevant to non-PQA users.
Key learning outcomes
Appreciate the key auditing issues for micro, small and
medium sized companies that have arisen over the last 12 months and how to
address these.
Understand the key recent updates to the Institute PQAs and how best to
employ these in your audits/practice.
Speaker
Conal Kennedy - FCA
Bio: C
onal is Head of Practice Consulting in
Chartered Accountants Ireland. He and his team provide advice and support to
practices throughout Ireland, and publish a range of practice toolkits covering
audit, accounting and compliance. Over a 15 year period in Practice Consulting,
Conal has coached and advised many practices through major change events such as
mergers, acquisitions and retirements. He has also advised on practice
development and marketing.
Jeremy Twomey - FCA
Bio:
Jeremy in his role as Practice Consulting
Manager works to support our member practitioners across our service areas, with
a particular focus on compliance support, training and our associated advisory
services. Jeremy is a Fellow of the Institute, having trained with Ernst &
Young; he has held senior management positions across both financial and
professional services, as well as the public sector.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or
requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930