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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
2 Credits: Auditing
Course Level
Overview
Format
Self-Study
Course Description
This course explains how artificial intelligence is transforming every stage of the audit process by enabling deeper analysis, faster testing, and stronger fraud detection. It shows auditors how to apply AI tools while maintaining professional judgment, oversight, ethics, and regulatory compliance. Participants learn the skills and strategies needed to use AI responsibly and effectively, positioning themselves to deliver higher-quality, more insightful audits.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the different types of learning approaches that can be applied to AI tools.
- Recall the best uses for natural language processing.
- Recognize the situations to which continuous auditing can be applied.
- Specify how AI can be used to detect fraud.
- Recall why auditors need to oversee the use of and outputs from AI tools.
- Recognize the risk of using “black box” AI models.
- Recall the skill sets that auditors need in order to use AI in audits.
- Recognize the consequences for audit firms that do not adopt AI tools.
Course Specifics
SS926468474
February 16, 2026
There are no prerequisites.
None
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Compliance Information
CFP Notice: Not all courses that qualify for CFP® credit are registered by Western CPE. If a course does not have a CFP registration number in the compliance section, the continuing education will need to be individually reported with the CFP Board. For more information on the reporting process, required documentation, processing fee, etc., contact the CFP Board. CFP Professionals must take each course in it’s entirety, the CFP Board DOES NOT accept partial credits for courses.
Meet The Experts
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 300 business books and courses. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast. Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and …
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