2013 AICPA IT Audit Training School - How to Identify and Manage IT Risk in Assurance Services

As technology continues to play a transformative role in the world of accounting, it’s essential that CPAs, controllers, auditors and their staff embrace the changes, and understand the new challenges they face in conducting successful audits and other assurance services. Fortunately, the AICPA IT Audit Training Schools provide the tools needed to keep your organization operating effectively!

Developed to help auditors, controllers or internal audit staff better understand how IT impact financial reporting, these schools provide basic and advanced levels of learning for your specific needs. In three days of hands-on training, get more highly focused, technical proficiency on practical IT auditing techniques to apply to a business process (such as a revenue and expense cycle), fraud considerations, and business intelligence. In addition, get a better understanding about access management controls applicable within a financial system.

AICPA IT Audit Training School:  How to Identify and Manage IT Risk in Assurance Services will provide a better understanding of:

• The type and scope of documentation necessary to prepare and provide to auditors; materials that may have to be prepared outside of the finance department; and the personnel to have during the audit.  
• IT’s role in the audit (particularly important for those who may not have had IT personnel previously support an audit, but may now need to do so due to the additional information needed)
• Overview of new Service Organization Control Reports – SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3 (formerly SAS 70 reports).Limited to 50 participants.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
CPAs on every level who have little or no experience with IT audits; controllers, internal audit managers and staff involved in documenting the IT function for financial reporting audits.