Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain

Overview

Become a certified peer review team captain!

Learn the foundation of an effective peer review engagement and evaluation of a firm's system of quality control under the AICPA Practice-Monitoring Program.

As a future team and/or review captain, you will learn to successfully plan for, perform, and report on both system and engagement reviews. This two-part CPE course features an online self-study module and a group-study course entitled Becoming an AICPA Peer Review Team or Review Captain: Case Study Application. Completion of both parts is required to become certified qualified as a peer review team captain

Highlights

Key Topics

• Evaluation of a firm's system of quality control
• Steps in a peer review engagement
• Writing peer review reports
• Assisting firms in preparing letters of response
• Planning and conducting the exit conference
• The role and qualifications of the peer reviewer in system and engagement reviews
• Objectives and requirements related to peer reviews in a peer review program
• Engagement reviews and their distinct differences from system reviews

Prerequisites

Working knowledge and experience with the Statements on Quality Control Standards

Designed For

Who Will Benefit

• Those who wish to become peer review team captain qualified.

Objectives

Learning Outcomes

• Distinguish between the processes to effectively plan system and engagement peer reviews
• Identify steps needed to understand a firm's system of quality control
• Identify the differences between the various types of peer review reports
• Select different recommendations for follow-up action to the administering entity
• Identify the impact and effect that organizational issues have on a firm's system of quality control