Self-Study
Guide to Analytical Procedures
Your guide to analytical procedures for examining financial statements, from trend analysis to regression testing. Detect misstatements while reducing examination time.
$29.00 – $49.00
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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
1 Credits: Auditing
Course Level
Overview
Format
Self-Study
Course Description
Analytical procedures can be a powerful tool for the examination of a client’s financial statements. They can highlight possible material misstatements, and even replace substantive tests that would require much more time to complete. In the Guide to Analytical Procedures course, we discuss how to design analytical procedures and when to use them, while also providing examples of how trend analysis, ratio analysis, reasonableness testing, and regression analysis can be used.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize how analytical procedures can be used in each stage of an audit.
- Identify situations that can impact the predictability of relationships between data.
- Specify the issues that can impact the precision of an analytical procedure.
- Recognize the levels of precision associated with the different types of analytical procedures.
- Identify the causes of an unexpected variance from the expected value.
Course Specifics
SS924374787
February 27, 2024
There are no prerequisites.
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Compliance Information
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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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