Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Auditors require continual knowledge of changing standards and practice issues. This seminar reviews recent revisions to the CPA Canada Handbook–Assurance and other practice matters that have occurred over the last year, with a focus on audit-level standards.
In addition to comparing new and revised assurance standards, this seminar provides an overview of projects in progress and other developments of interest to practitioners, including national issues that have been identified by practice advisory and/or practice inspection. This seminar focuses exclusively on changes to audit standards.
The Audits: Update 2025 course will focus on recent modifications to the CPA Canada Assurance Handbook. These will include:
- Recently approved standards that have been incorporated in the Assurance Handbook.
- Proposed standards that will be imminently approved.
- Current Exposure Drafts and ongoing projects at the Canada Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB), with consideration of international projects; and,
- Recent findings stemming from practice inspections, including recommendations on how to address these issues.
Topics Include:
- Introduction and overview of recently revised standards that apply to audits.
- Exposure drafts and other projects in process for audits.
- Practice matters, including highlights from national practice inspection findings and practice advisory comments for auditors.
NOTE: This course description has been revised and reflects updates for 2025. If you have any questions, please contact pdevents@cpaontario.ca.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe how the revisions to Canadian Auditing Standards will impact their audit engagement.
- Anticipate pending changes to audit standards and understand how the changes may impact audit engagements.
- Understand the recent practice inspection findings and how auditors can address these in their upcoming engagements; and,
- Be aware of and locate tools to assist with audits.
Who Will Benefit
The seminar will particularly appeal to practitioners serving small and medium-sized private or not-for-profit organizations, although it will advance the knowledge of all accounting professionals performing audits.
Prerequisite(s)
Participants should have a working knowledge of the CPA Canada Handbook – Assurance.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Francis (Frank) Seguin, CPA, CA, has over 25 years’ experience providing training, lecturing, assurance and advisory services to clients based in Ontario, throughout Canada and internationally, with a focus on the broader public sector and not-for-profit organizations. He has worked in professional services’ firm for over 20 years as well as in industry, and currently lectures for CPA Ontario and CPA Quebec; he has also lectured on a part-time basis at the bachelors’ and graduate levels in the Université du Québec en Outaouais and the University of Ottawa.