AICPA Peer Review Update Course
8.0 Credits
Member Price $299.00
Non-Member Price $424.00
Overview
The course provides information essential to all peer reviewers, including a high-level overview of changes to standards and guidance, as well as an update on results from the Enhanced Oversight Program.
Highlights
Topics of discussion will include:
- Update on EAQ initiatives
- Overview of recent developments in peer review
- Enhanced Oversight Program
- Clarity project
- QCM examinations
- Updates to the peer review manual
- Common items that delay report acceptance
- Identifying nonconforming engagements – other
- QM standards and impact on Peer Review
- Preparing FFCs and report deficiencies
- Determining systemic causes
- Group Discussions
- Case Studies
- Common reviewer performance feedback
- Mobility as it relates to Peer Review
- Reviewer Pool considerations
Designed For
Peer reviewers
Objectives
When you complete this course you will be able to:
- Recall the most recent developments in the Peer Review Program.
- Recognize common items that delay report acceptance.
- Impact of new QM standards.
- Review changes in the proposed new Clarified Peer Review Standards (PRSU No. 3)
- Common peer review issues related to Florida peer reviews.
- Prevent reviewer performance issues.
Notice
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Paul Brown, Vice President, Professional and Technical Standards, Florida Institute of CPAs
Paul Brown joined the FICPA in November 1992 and is the Vice President of Professional and Technical Standards for the Florida Institute of CPAs (FICPA). One of Paul’s main duties is to serve as the technical reviewer in Florida for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Peer Review Program. The program administers approximately 300 reviews annually in Florida and oversees approximately 85 peer reviewers. Paul also assists members in the areas of professional ethics and professional standards. As part of his role with the FICPA Paul has instructed and authored continuing education programs for the AICPA and FICPA, for which he has received several outstanding discussion leader and author awards. Paul is serving on the AICPA’s Peer Review Standards Task Force, Technical Reviewers Advisory Task Force to the Peer Review Board, and former chair of the Audit Committee for the City of Tallahassee.
Prior to joining the FICPA, Paul was an audit manager with the regional firm of Williams, Cox, Weidner & Cox (now Carr, Riggs & Ingram) in Tallahassee, Florida. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Florida State University and has been licensed as a CPA since 1988.
Non-Member Price $424.00
Member Price $299.00