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As partners and leaders, we’re often focused on results, deadlines, and client demands — but what if we paused to reflect on the system that supports all of that? What if we viewed quality not as a checklist… but as a value-driver?
Join Bill, a seasoned CPA firm partner, as a routine business trip (imaginary) transforms into a powerful awakening on the true meaning of quality. Guided by an Assurance Quality and Risk Management expert, this immersive audio story blends real-life challenges with practical insights on CSQM 1, helping you see your System of Quality Management (SoQM) not as a compliance task — but as a guardian of your firm’s future.
Lessons Covered:
- Introduction: The Skeptic’s Starting Point
- Traffic, Timing, and the First Realization
- Flexibility, Risk, and Gatekeeping
- Ethical Oversight
- Leadership and Culture under CSQM 1
- What the Standard Actually Says
- Self-Audit of the System of Quality Management
- Human, Intellectual and Technical Expertise Under CSQM 1
- A Renewed Commitment to Quality
- Closing Narrator Reflection
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Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will:
- Understand how CSQM 1 applies across eight integrated components of a firm’s quality management system.
- Recognize how risk, leadership, ethics, and communication impact file quality, culture, and client service.
- Reflect on how your firm currently handles quality risks — and where blind spots may exist.
- Explore the value of leadership accountability and tone at the top in sustaining assurance quality.
- Learn how real-time feedback, root cause analysis, and quality culture can move your SoQM from reactive to transformative.
Who Will Benefit
This course is ideal for managing partners, directors, senior managers, managers and quality leaders who are responsible for building, operating, or evaluating their firm’s System of Quality Management (SoQM). It also benefits engagement managers, reviewers, and CPAs in mid-size or small firms who want to connect their day-to-day assurance work with firm-wide quality, risk, and leadership expectations — all through a practical, story-driven lens.
How to Access the Course
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Speaker(s)
Balaji M. Athreya ("Athreya"), CPA is the Founder and CEO of Audimatiq Consulting Inc. Audimatiq helps CPA firms transform their approach to Assurance Quality and Risk Management (AQRM) through innovative consul tech solutions, training, and thought leadership. Drawing on extensive experience in audit and assurance, inspection readiness, and Systems of Quality Management (SoQM) under CSQM 1 and ISQM 1, Athreya brings a practical, forward thinking perspective to firm wide quality transformation by combining innovation, insights and systems. His work blends professional standards with real world insight to help firms not just comply - but lead with quality.