Webcast
Leveraging Analytical Procedures to the Fullest on Audits
Learn how to design stronger analytical procedures that improve audit quality, support substantive conclusions, and enhance documentation. This course uses real-world examples to show when analytics can provide meaningful audit evidence and how to apply them with greater precision.
$98.00
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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
2 Credits: Auditing
Course Level
Overview
Format
Webcast
Course Description
Analytical procedures can do far more than support planning—they can strengthen audit quality, sharpen risk assessment, and, in the right circumstances, provide persuasive substantive evidence. In this auditing CPE course, Jennifer Louis walks through how to use analytical procedures more effectively throughout the audit, from preliminary risk identification to substantive testing and final overall review.
Through practical case studies and documentation examples, you’ll examine what makes an analytic procedure strong, when analytics can reduce the need for extensive tests of details, how to build precise expectations using reliable financial and nonfinancial data, and how to investigate and document variances in a way that stands up to review. This CPE webcast is designed for auditors who want more efficient, better-supported audit work—not just more workpapers.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify how analytical procedures can be used to enhance audit quality during planning, substantive testing, and final review.
- Recognize the factors that make a substantive analytical procedure suitable for a given assertion and level of audit risk.
- Develop more precise expectations by using relevant financial and nonfinancial data, disaggregation, and corroborating information.
- Distinguish between stronger and weaker analytic procedures based on data reliability, documentation quality, and responsiveness to identified differences.
- Apply practical techniques to improve the documentation, evaluation, and follow-up of substantive analytical procedures.
Course Specifics
WC1926478812
June 15, 2026
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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
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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