Non Audit: Monitoring Visits - What to Expect & How to Prepare
Category: Financial Reporting | Date: 05/06/2024 13:30 | Duration: 1hr | Tag: ATSUK24D2S4 | Type: Webinar | Speaker: Colm Owens, Lindsay Webber
Course Details
In this session, Colm Owens and Lindsay Webber will consider the some of the issues that come up on monitoring visits in relation to non-audit files, client monies & AML. This will be of interest to accountants who are expecting a monitoring visit in the near future which may include a non-audit element (or be a non-audit monitoring visit in itself) and to all accountants for on-going compliance and best practice. Monitoring visits can be stressful events, so being well-prepared can make them go much smoother and help to ensure they go well.
The following topics will be covered:
- Audit-exempt files – the requirements
- Audit-exempt financial statements
- Client Monies;
- Anti-Money Laundering;
By attending this session you will be able to know how to prepare & what to expect.
Course level: Intermediate
CPD Course Speaker
OmniPro Practice Support
Lindsay Webber
As a member of our Practice Support team, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training, technical assistance, and file reviews.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. Altogether, she has over six years external audit experience along with over six years academic experience specialising in Audit and Financial Accounting. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University and graduated with distinction from the MBA course at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently working towards a Diploma in Forensic Accounting through Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. Altogether, she has over six years external audit experience along with over six years academic experience specialising in Audit and Financial Accounting. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University and graduated with distinction from the MBA course at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently working towards a Diploma in Forensic Accounting through Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Practice Support Executive, OmniPro
Colm Owens
As a member of our Practice Support team, Colm’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, prepare for monitoring visits and assist with post-monitoring visits follow-ups.
Having spent the 6 years prior to joining OmniPro as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland Colm has a unique insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.
Having spent the 6 years prior to joining OmniPro as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland Colm has a unique insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.