Instructor
This course, based on Government Auditing Standards, 2018 Revision, is essential for auditors performing Yellow Book audits. It provides detailed information that all auditors planning and conducting engagements in accordance with the Yellow Book need to be able to discern the requirements related to independence. This course will increase your knowledge of the requirements and application guidance related to ethics, standards for financial audits, attestation engagements, performance audits, and more.
• Identify the guidance found in Government Auditing Standards, 2018
Revision.
• Recognize the relationship between Government Auditing Standards
and other professional standards.
• Recognize the Yellow Book guidance regarding independence as
found in Government Auditing Standards, 2018 Revision.
• Identify the Yellow Book requirements for financial statement audits,
attestation engagements, and performance audits.
• Foundation and principles for government auditing
• General requirements for complying with Government Auditing
Standards
• Ethics, independence, and professional judgment
• Competence and CPE
• Quality control and peer review
• Standards for financial audits
• Standards for attestation and review engagements
• Fieldwork and reporting standards for performance audits
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Government auditors and public
accountants that will be planning
or conducting engagements in
accordance with Government
Auditing Standards, 2018
Revision (“Yellow Book”)