After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
- Identify key steps and considerations related to planning system or engagement review, scheduling a peer review, and selecting the peer reviewer
- Describe specific items or information which might be requested during a peer review
- Identify major elements of the AICPA Standards for Performing and Reporting on Peer Reviews
- Examine types of peer review risk as well as deficiencies in reports of system and engagement reviews
Instructor bio
Michael (“Mike”) Brown’s extensive experience confirms his presence as a leader in the accounting community—with a commitment for student success and a passion for teaching. For over 15 years, Mike has been a senior national instructor with Becker Professional Education. He has reached 167,000 individual students—just since February of 2019—in Becker’s CPA and CMA Review courses and countless more through his presentations at conferences, firms, universities and in the online community. Mike’s teaching is enhanced by his vast accounting experience in many industries, including manufacturing, financial, retail, real estate and service. In addition to the CPA Review, CMA Review and CPE courses he teaches at Becker, Mike is an adjunct professor in accounting at Franklin University. He also recently completed a term on the Beta Alpha Psi Board of Directors. Mike graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a Master of Science in Accounting. He is a licensed CPA in the State of North Carolina, currently residing in Raleigh with his wife and two children.
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