Learn About the New Quality Management Standards with Renee Rampulla
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(Check-In 12:45pm EST)
Virtual
4.00 Credits
Member Price $219.00
Non-Member Price $309.00
Overview
You could pay $0 for this course!
This course qualifies for reimbursement through the state’s Workforce Training Express Fund. Firms/companies with fewer than 50 staff can be reimbursed up to 100% of the cost of training and firms/companies with 50-100 employees can be reimbursed up to 50% of the cost of training. You must register for the course and apply for reimbursement through the Workforce Training Express Fund website a minimum of three weeks prior to the start of the course to be eligible. The course code for this program is C-11350. To learn more, click here or contact Julia Ekelund at jekelund@masscpas.org.
Highlights
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
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Identify key differences between the existing quality control standard (Quality Control Standard No. 8) and the new quality management standards.
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Recognize how the quality management standards will impact an accounting firm’s practice, including the role of firm leadership.
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Recall the engagement quality review requirements.
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Understand the available AICPA resources.
Prerequisites
Experienced auditors and those individuals responsible for maintaining a firm’s system of quality control.
Designed For
CPAs in public practice that are engaged to perform financial statement audits, reviews, and attestation engagements and those individuals responsible for maintaining a firm’s system of quality control.
Objectives
Learn about the new risk-based approach to quality management and the impact it will have on engagement partners, engagement teams, and engagement quality reviewers.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Renee Rampulla, American Institute of CPAs
Renee Rampulla has over twenty years of professional experience. She writes, lectures, and consults on technical accounting and auditing issues. Renee has extensive experience in the auditing of public and privately held entities ranging from the manufacturing and service sectors, to financial services. Previously she was a partner in a regional accounting firm in the northeast in charge of the firm’s accounting and auditing practice and their quality control group. Renee is the president and founder of Rampulla Advisory Services, LLC. Her clients include nationally recognized professional organizations, accounting firms, companies, publishers and others. By devoting several years of her career at both regional and Big Four accounting firms Renee accumulated a wealth of technical and practical knowledge. In addition, she was a senior staff member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). At the AICPA Renee worked closely with senior technical committees, presented technical guidance before standard setters, and authored and updated several authoritative and non-authoritative publications. For several years Renee was an adjunct lecturer at a university in New York City where she taught numerous undergraduate accounting and auditing courses. Renee enjoys teaching and is an instructor and author of several continuing professional education courses for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ (NYSSCPA) Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) and other organizations, covering a variety of accounting and auditing topics. Renee holds a BBA in Public Accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College. She is a member of the AICPA, the NYSSCPA, the New Jersey State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), the Institute of Management Accountants, the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Renee serves as a committee member of the NYSSCPA’s Professional Ethics committee. She is currently the vice-leader of the NJSCPA’s Accounting and Auditing Standards Interest Group, becoming leader in June 2012. Previously she served as co-chair of the NJSCPA Accounting Standards and IFRS sub-committee interest groups.
Non-Member Price $309.00
Member Price $219.00