Audit 205: Auditing Liabilities and Long-Term Debt Risks

Overview

Auditing Liabilities, Including Long-Term Debt - Addressing the Risks of Completeness, Classification, and Disclosure will discuss tips and techniques for auditing accounts payable, accrued expenses, and common long-term financing arrangements and related debt covenants. The completeness and proper classification of liabilities are the typical higher audit risks. The complexity of the debt financing arrangements may create a significant risk requiring more persuasive audit evidence. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

The major topics covered in this course include:

• Typical audit procedures related to accounts payable and accrued expenses, including the search for unrecorded liabilities
• Key controls related to liabilities
• Auditing long-term debt, including compliance with covenants
• Determining the proper classification of financing arrangements
• Proper form of noncompliance waiver letters
• Impact of noncompliance on disclosures

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Accountants responsible for auditing accounts payable, accrued expenses and debt

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to...

• Identify typical audit risks and special audit considerations related to various liabilities
• Tailor the audit plan in response to assessed risk of material misstatement, focusing on the assertions with typically higher risk
• Evaluate results from a search for unrecorded liabilities and procedures to assess the propriety of accrued estimates
• Evaluate the completeness, classification, and disclosure of financing arrangements - including debt covenant compliance

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by CPA Crossings. Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.