Dates and location
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Dates and location
Hours
Description
Learn anywhere, anytime with audio learning from your trusted source for Professional Development.
Get up to speed in an hour on critical topics for CPAs such as AI, Ethics, Finance, Cybersecurity, Audit, Tax, Sustainability and more.
- Convenient 60-minute audio courses in our new app.
- Flexible format allows you to listen and learn on the go at your own pace.
- Relevant and trending topics affecting CPAs to help you stay at the forefront of the profession.
In today’s complex and fast-paced audit environment, professional skepticism and critical thinking are essential for maintaining engagement quality and public trust. This audio learning course helps CPAs move beyond procedural checklists to develop the mindset, behaviors, and documentation practices needed to turn professional skepticism into action. Through a structured approach to critical thinking, you’ll learn how to ask better questions, recognize bias, evaluate evidence and spot red flags to meet today’s engagement quality demands.
Lessons Covered:
- Professional Skepticism Fundamentals and Ethics
- The Skeptical Mindset and Understanding and Overcoming Bias
- Putting Professional Skepticism in Practice
- A Structured Approach to Critical Thinking
- The Skeptics’ Toolkit (Asking Better Questions)
- Bringing It All Together
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Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand foundational concepts of professional skepticism.
- Recognize its importance in audit engagements.
- Explore key traits of a skeptical mindset.
- Apply professional skepticism to engagements.
- Define critical thinking and explain its importance in engagement quality.
- Document professional skepticism and critical thinking.
Who Will Benefit
This course is ideal for CPAs, auditors, and assurance professionals at all levels who want to enhance their professional judgment and engagement quality.
Disclaimer
The views expressed in the course are non-authoritative and have not been formally endorsed by CPA Ontario and do not reflect the views of CPA Ontario. The information included in the course if for general information purposes only.
CPA Ontario, the presenters and the authors do not accept any responsibility or liability that might occur directly or indirectly as a consequence of the use or application of or reliance on this material.
How to Access the Course
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Speaker(s)
Kirsten S. Albo, FCPA, FCA, ICD.D is the Founder of ASK KSA Consulting Inc. providing consulting and advisory services to small and mid-sized firms to help them conduct effective and efficient engagements and meet the requirements of being in public practice. Areas of practice include cyclical file inspections, external monitoring activities, file efficiency reviews and engagement quality reviews. Delivering professional development courses is a key component of her business as she develops and delivers specialized in-house training courses for the multitude of firms with whom she works.