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Course Agenda

Risk Assessment Practices and Lessons Learned: One Firm’s Story
One busy season later, what best practices were utilized to effectively and efficiently implement the risk assessment standards? This session will detail how one firm converted to the new audit approach. Examples from the firm’s client base will include small owner-managed businesses, mid-market entities, and large companies.

Evaluating Internal Controls for the Small Client
When auditing smaller clients, it’s critical to know how much understanding of internal control is enough— that is, when to stop so you can still be effective without blowing the budget. This session answers the following question related to evaluating the small client’s internal controls: After I understand my client’s entity-level controls, do I need a further understanding of control activities?

Linkages in Risk Assessment – Mid-Size Client Considerations
There are key links between business risk and the risk of material misstatement of the financial statements that you can’t afford to miss. These linkages in risk assessment will be discussed in relation to the mid-size client. Topics will include linking fraud, materiality, risk indicators, significant audit risks, internal control evaluation, and analytical procedures. This session will also underscore how these linkages are integrated in the PPC Practice Aids.

Customizing Your Audit Plan: Trusting Your Risk Assessment Instincts (Large Client Focus)
This session will focus on methods for maximizing audit efficiencies in larger client engagements. Topics will include: risk assessment procedures, developing an overall audit strategy, tailoring audit programs, and using planning meetings to drive decision making. The “large client track” will also address maximizing audit efficiency in niche industry practices, with special emphasis on creating standardized templates for risk assessment.

Linkages in Risk Assessment – Small Client Considerations
There are key links between business risk and the risk of material misstatement of the financial statements that you can’t afford to miss. These linkages in risk assessment will be discussed in relation to the smaller client. Topics will include linking fraud, materiality, risk indicators, significant audit risks, internal control evaluation, and analytical procedures. This session will also underscore how these linkages are integrated in the PPC Practice Aids.

Maximizing Audit Efficiencies: Mid-Market Client Issues
This session will focus on methods for maximizing audit efficiencies in mid-size client engagements. Topics will include: risk assessment procedures, developing an overall audit strategy, tailoring audit programs and using planning meetings to drive decision making. This session will also address converting from balance sheet to transaction cycle auditing for the mid-market client.

Leveraging the Large Client’s Internal Control Systems in Your Risk Assessment
For larger clients, once you understand the entity and the design of its internal controls, greater focus is often placed on obtaining a further understanding control activities. This session will focus on leveraging the internal control systems of larger clients for greater audit effectiveness and efficiency, including rotating internal control testing, evaluating client documentation of internal controls, relying on service organization controls and performing dual purpose testing.

Best Practices in Maximizing Audit Efficiencies: Small Clients
This session will focus on best practices for maximizing audit efficiencies in smaller client engagements. Topics will include: risk assessment procedures, developing an overall audit strategy, tailoring audit programs and using planning meetings to drive decision making. This session will also address leveraging the consistency, stability, and predictability of small client financial statements to help you be more effective and efficient.

Evaluating the Design and Implementation of Key Controls for Mid-Market Clients
This session will focus on identifying and evaluating key controls for mid-market clients and will answer such questions as: What is a key control? What do I have to know about key controls? What are control objectives and how do they help me evaluate control design? What is the difference between a walkthrough and a test of controls? This session will also discuss linking the internal control evaluation to the risk assessment.

Linkages in Risk Assessment – Large Client Considerations
There are key links between business risk and the risk of material misstatement of the financial statements that you can’t afford to miss. These linkages in risk assessment will be discussed in relation to the larger client. Topics will include linking fraud, materiality, risk indicators, significant audit risks, internal control evaluation, and analytical procedures. This session will also underscore how these linkages are integrated in the PPC Practice Aids.

What You Need to Know About PPC Audit Guides in 2008
This session will discuss updates and changes to your 2008 PPC Audit Guides. Special emphasis will be placed on which practice aids have changed and what primary changes have been made, practice aids that have not changed, and what your firm can do to adopt the changes in the most efficient manner.

Realizing Efficiencies Using SMART ePractice Aids
Focus on ways to gain efficiencies through practical application of PPC SMART e-Practice Aids – Risk Assessment using a case study approach. This includes discussion of PPC’s new SMART tool—the Internal Control Analyzer.

Risk Assessment Issues for Specialized Industries
What are the key pitfalls you need to avoid as you apply risk assessment at your specialized industry clients? This session will discuss a variety of best practices in risk assessment relating to PPC industry-focused guides, including nonprofit organizations, governmental entities, constructions contractors and employee benefit plans.

Where Do We Go from Here? Standard Setters’ Response to Frequently Asked Questions
Always informative, AICPA Auditing Standards Board Chairman and Keynote Speaker, Harold Monk will provide insight on what is on tap for the audit industry and respond to frequently asked questions regarding new standards and implementation.

Agenda as of 3/15/08.