Webcast
Auditing Top-Ten List: Analytics
Learn how to design and document high-quality analytical procedures under AUC 520—from preliminary and final analytics to robust substantive analytics—so you can focus audit effort where the risk really is and strengthen your conclusions on nonpublic entity engagements.
$49.00
Webcasts are available for viewing Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm ET,
and Saturday & Sunday, 10am – 6pm ET.
Without FlexCast, you must start with enough time to finish. (1 Hr/Credit)
Secure Transaction CPE Credits
1 Credits: Auditing
Course Level
Basic
Format
Webcast
Course Description
Analytics sits at the center of modern audit quality, and this course shows you how to use it with discipline and impact. Sunish Mehta walks through where analytics fit in the audit pipeline, from preliminary and risk assessment procedures to wrap-up, and explains the requirements of AUC 520 for nonpublic entity audits. You’ll see how to design preliminary and final analytical procedures that actually surface risk, rather than just check a box, and how to connect those procedures to your audit risk model, materiality, and performance materiality.
From there, the course moves into practical “top 10” guidance for substantive analytics: developing independent expectations using financial and non-financial data, choosing appropriate techniques (trend, ratio, reasonableness, regression, benchmarking, scanning), increasing precision through disaggregation, and using analytics to target fraud risks while respecting the need for tests of details. You’ll also see what good documentation looks like so your analytic work stands up to peer review—tight, light, and clearly tied to conclusions.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- List the requirements of Analytical Procedures in conformity with AUC 520.
- Apply the Top-Ten List of analytics to effectively and efficiently execute a financial audit of a non-public entity.
Course Specifics
WC1925439620
August 6, 2025
None
None
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
Sunish Mehta, experienced CPA, CGMA, CPE Instructor and thought leader. As founder and principal of Mindful-CPA Mindful-PRO, Sunish has over 30 years of experience. He leads training courses in Accounting, Auditing, Leadership & Management and Mindfulness with an attitude of making things Fun & Easy for all his audiences! Professional Highlights: Inner MBA – New York University 2021. BS in Accounting & Business Admin – California State University, Northridge 1993 National Speaker with leading CPE Providers for over 16 years leading seminars, webinars, courses and workshops across the US and India, China and The Philippines. Over 15 years of professional …
Webcast
