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2025 Hot Topics Audit & Attest Update
Get a crisp, 2025-ready briefing on what actually changed in audit and attest. Jennifer Louis distills the latest standards and ethics updates into actionable next steps—risk linkage, auditing estimates, group audits, confirmations, SSARS changes, independence considerations, and tighter documentation—so you can strengthen evidence and update firm methodology with confidence.
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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
2 Credits: Auditing
Course Level
Update
Format
Webcast
Course Description
Stay current on what actually changed—and how to respond—across audit and attest in 2025. This update distills the standard-setters’ recent emphases into practical guidance: what “sufficient appropriate” evidence really means in practice; how to scale risk-based procedures; when and how to rely on information from external sources and specialists; sharpening professional skepticism to counter availability, confirmation, anchoring, overconfidence, and automation biases; and tightening documentation around materiality, performance materiality, and linkage from assessed risks to detailed procedures.
We then zero in on fast-moving technical areas you’ll see in files this year: auditing estimates and related disclosures; evaluating control design/implementation using the COSO components; the new group-audit model in SAS No. 149; PCAOB AS 2310’s technology-aware confirmation guidance (including cash and A/R, and limits of negative confirms); SSARS No. 26 changes to engagement letters, reporting, and EQR documentation; and fresh ethics interpretations on fee dependency and recruiting services that affect independence. You’ll leave with clear “what to do Monday” takeaways for scoping, testing, using intermediaries and external data, and communicating risks and remediation with clients and engagement teams.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize how to manage risk associated with audit and nonaudit services and changing professional, technical, regulatory, or ethical requirements
Course Specifics
WC1925440874
August 22, 2025
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Compliance Information
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Meet The Experts
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success. In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis. Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years. Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President/Director of …
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