Housing and Urban Development: An Auditing Introduction
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
• Identify Housing and Urban Development (HUD)/Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage programs
• Define GAGAS (Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards/Yellow Book) and recognize the similarities and differences between the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and GAGAS ethics
• Identify Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) and Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) ethical principles
• Identify potential audit fieldwork issues—i.e., determination of major programs, attribute sampling method and minimum sampling sizes, audit cycle
• Define the purpose and content of an engagement letter
• Define the AICPA guidance for AU-C Section 935 (Compliance Audits) and AU-C Section 725 (Required Supplementary Information)
• Recognize the contents of the Lender Electronic Assessment Portal (LEAP) and the auditor and auditee responsibilities
Instructor bio
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA, has over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing high quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success. In 2003, she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, where she focuses her energy on designing and delivering practical and engaging accounting and auditing training. She was most recently Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc. Jennifer started her career in Audit for Deloitte & Touche LLP. Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a B.B.A.-Accounting.
Instructor bio
John has extensive teaching experience serving as a Professor at Stanford, UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, San Jose State, and is the Director and Lead Faculty of the CPA Applied Program at Golden Gate University. While teaching college courses and leading audits with the Government Accountability Office, John has been the Lead Faculty for Becker Professional Education in Northern California for nearly 30 years. In addition to teaching live CPA classes, John has been involved in recruiting, training, and developing CPA instructors throughout the State of California. John is also an author and national instructor for Becker’s Continuing Professional Education program focusing on governmental accounting and auditing topics.
Before retiring in 2014, John served as a Senior Audit Manager for the Government Accountability Office which is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. In his capacity with the GAO, John led audits of the Bureau of Public Debt, Federal Reserve and IRS. He has also led work with the GAO reviewing the accounting and auditing standards setting process in the United States where he was actively involved with the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board. John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the California State University in Hayward, California and is an active U.S. Certified Public Accountant and past President of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting.
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