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Course Agenda

Implementing Risk Assessment: Year Two Considerations
One year later, what best practices have been utilized to effectively and efficiently implement the risk assessment standards? This session will highlight ways to improve the quality and efficiency of your audits in the second year of implementation.

SAS 112 & SAS 114—Communication with Clients
SAS 112 and SAS 114 establish standards for communicating with your clients before, during, and at the conclusion of the audit.  This session presents a tool to evaluate internal control deficiencies and practical guidance for framing deficiency comments. 

Business Valuation Update
New legislation continues to change the methodology for business valuation. Ensure you have the most comprehensive guidance, including the latest updates and market trends that define the economic value of your financial interest.

Audits of Employee Benefit Plans—Part I
The Department of Labor and your peer review team are extremely interested in how well you perform your EBP audits, so you should be too! Whether you audit defined benefit, defined contribution, or health and welfare benefit plans, this two part session illustrates how to efficiently identify the risk of material misstatement in both the financial statement and compliance audit of a benefit plan. The session also includes guidance on utilizing the practice aids specifically designed for implementation of SAS 104-114.

Audits of Employee Benefit Plans—Part II                  
What are the hot buttons for the DOL in 2008?  What are common audit deficiencies noted in peer reviews and DOL examination of benefit plan audit submission? The seminar discusses how to develop the requisite audit procedures to test compliance with ERISA, DOL regulations, and plan document provisions.

Risk-Based Compliance Auditing
Discuss the issues that will most likely affect risk-based compliance auditing for nonprofit organizations and governmental units. This session illustrates how to design an integrated audit plan for Yellow Book and Single audits.  The focus will be on what tests of controls and compliance are required and how much testing should be performed.

Compilation and Review Update                 
Let us guide you through best practices in compilation and review engagements. The session will illustrate how to use PPC practice aids to implement an efficient system of quality control, ensuring compliance with GAAP reporting and new SSARS standards.

Quality Control Standards
An in-depth review of the latest pronouncements on Quality Control Standards. This session will explain in depth the changes you must make to your quality control system for each six elements of quality control:  leadership, ethical requirements, client acceptance and continuance, engagement performance, human resources and monitoring.  Gain an insider’s view of what peer reviewers looks for and how to set up your engagement files to facilitate a successful peer review.

Construction Contractors—Part I
This two part session will provide comprehensive “how-to” guidance on the issues surrounding construction contractors. Part I of this session will provide an overview of contractor accounting and financial reporting. The second part is designed to provide practical guidance on developing an efficient risk-based audit plan for contract revenues and related costs.

Construction Contractors—Part II
This two-part session will provide comprehensive “how-to” guidance on the issues surrounding construction contractors. Part I of this session will provide an overview of contractor accounting and financial reporting. The second part is designed to provide practical guidance on developing an efficient risk-based audit plan for contract revenues and related costs.

Panel Discussion
All general and concurrent session speakers will participate in this discussion, which will also provide the opportunity for Q&A. This session will be the attendee’s opportunity to have issues clarified and to ask questions on a variety of topics related to using PPC’s guides.

Internal Control
How are auditors efficiently evaluating the design and implementation of entity-level and activity-level controls?  How do procedures differ when auditing small, mid-size, and large clients?  What changes if the engagement is a Yellow Book or Single audit?  This is the toughest part of the risk assessment standards.  Let PPC show you how to make sense of the internal control maze.

SMART e-Tools: Internal Control Analyzer
Increase your confidence in evaluating internal controls and identifying control risks. This session will guide you through a top-down, risk-based approach for efficiently and effectively evaluating internal control through the use of PPC SMART e-Practice Aids. This comprehensive, integrated internal control and analysis tool helps auditors: obtain and document their internal controls, evaluate systems design, and assess control risk.

Publisher’s Update: Specialized Industry
This specialized industry update will cover the latest on HUD Audits, Employee Benefit Plans, Construction Contractors, and Single Audit compliance audits.

Changes to the 2008 PPC Guide to Audits of Nonprofits
What have regulators done this year that affects nonprofit organizations? This session will provide up-to-the-minute updates on pronouncements affecting the nonprofit industry. Included in this review will be a practical approach to help you help your client comply with reporting requirements under the AICPA, GAO and OBM standards as well as how to transition your client to risk-based auditing.

Auditor’s Report
How difficult can it be?  There’s no creativity; the report language is standardized. So why do auditors get it wrong?  Why issue an unqualified report on an inappropriate basis of accounting (award basis)? Why omit a required modification? This session focuses on the latest guidance on the auditor’s reports in the SASs, Yellow Book, and A-133 and various modifications of that report.
OCBOA: Understanding the Advantages
This session will answer your questions and give you a clear direction for maneuvering through the uncertainties of preparing OCBOA financial statements including financial reporting and disclosure for cash and tax basis statements. 

SMART e-Tools: Risk Assessment
By automating the audit planning and risk assessment process, PPC’s SMART e-Practice Aids—Risk Assessment allows firms to take their audits to the next level. This session will focus on ways to allow your firm to: complete all audit planning documentation, identify and capture audit risks affecting engagements, select an audit strategy in response to risk assessment, automatically generate suggested audit programs, and diagnose inconsistencies in the audit plan.