Audit Considerations: Walkthrough Testing
Category: Audit | Date: 27/11/2025 11:30 | Duration: 1hr | Tag: WEBIE2577 | Type: Webinar | Speaker: Lindsay Webber
Course Details
Walkthroughs are a critical component of understanding internal controls and assessing risk in financial statement audits. Yet, many firms struggle to apply them effectively and in line with IAASA auditing standards and ISA (Ireland) requirements. This webinar will provide practical guidance to help you to understand the purpose and scope of walkthroughs in the audit process and apply best practices for documenting and evaluating internal controls.
Lindsay Webber will cover the following topics during this webinar:
- Why walkthroughs are required.
- When walkthroughs are required.
- Typical processes and related walkthrough considerations.
- Documentation.
By attending this session, you will be able to design and perform walkthrough tests.
This session will be of particular interest to auditors.
Course Level: Foundation
CPD Course Speaker
OmniPro Strategic Solutions
Lindsay Webber
As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.