Auditing Estimates and Demonstrating Professional Scepticism
Category: Audit | Date: 06/09/2023 13:30 | Duration: 1hr | Tag: SEFEIE23D2S4 | Type: Webinar | Course Level: Advanced | Speaker: Lindsay Webber
Course Details
Estimates are a very topical area from an accounting and auditing perspective, as is professional scepticism. In this session Lindsay will focus on the auditing requirements from the planning stage to completion when dealing with accounting estimates and provide practical advice on how to document accounting estimates and in doing so demonstrate your professional scepticism.
In this session Lindsay will cover the following topics;
- Estimates in risk assessment and planning
- Audit evidence for estimates
- Demonstrating professional scepticism
- Concluding on estimates
By attending this session, you will be able to better demonstrate you understanding of estimates and professional scepticism on an audit file.
This session will be of most interest to Auditors.
Course Level: Advanced
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.