Communicating with audit clients, from LOE to the audit report
Category: Audit | Date: 22/09/2026 11:30 | Duration: 1hr | Tag: WEBIE2660 | Type: Webinar | Speaker: Lindsay Webber
Course Details
Every audit engagement is really a series of conversations with the client, running from the initial letter of engagement through to the final audit report. Get these communications wrong, or fail to document them properly, and you risk scope disputes, unresolved disagreements with those charged with governance, or a modified opinion that comes as a surprise to no one but the client. For auditors of Irish entities, where the Companies Act 2014 and the ISAs (Ireland) set out clear expectations on what must be communicated and when, this webinar is a practical guide to getting each of these client conversations right.
Lindsay Webber will cover the following topics during this webinar:
- Letters of engagement — drafting, updating and renewing
- Communicating scope, risk and timelines during planning
- Reporting to those charged with governance
- Management letters and points for improvement
- Communicating findings through to the audit report
By attending this session, you will understand what must be communicated to audit clients at each stage of the engagement, and how to document it properly in your audit file.
This session will be of particular 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.