Professional Development

ASK KSA PD

ASK KSA PD goes beyond explaining the standards. Our courses combine technical expertise with practical guidance, real-world scenarios, documentation strategies and best practices. Every session is designed to help practitioners improve efficiency, strengthen engagement quality and enhance professional judgement.

Informative

ASK KSA PD courses explain the technical requirements while helping practitioners understand how they apply throughout the engagement, leading to stronger professional judgement and higher-quality work.

Practical

Every course focuses on real-world application. Through practical guidance, documentation examples, implementation tips and best practices, participants gain tools to immediately apply to engagements.

Engaging

Presented by Kirsten, ASK KSA PD courses combine technical expertise with real-life examples, actionable insights and an engaging presentation style that makes learning enjoyable and memorable.

Explore our Courses

Find the training that’s right for you. Browse our course library by category to find the professional development you need. From technical audit topics and other assurance engagements to practice management and ethics, every ASK KSA PD course is designed to move beyond theory with practical guidance, real-world examples, and actionable takeaways that make an immediate impact on your engagements and your firm. Looking for hands-on support instead of a course? Explore our file inspections, practice inspection support and CSQM 1 consulting.

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Audit Engagements

Determining and following the process for sending and concluding on external confirmations, including both positive and negative confirmations (1.5 hours).

When and how to use both internal and auditor’s experts, assess competence and evaluate their work and documentation (2.0 hours).

Appreciating responsibilities of the partner in performing quality audits along with understanding involvement of the EQR (1.5 hours).

Apply CAS 402 requirements and understand, assess and respond to use of a service organization in an audit, including understanding SOC Reports (2.0 hours)

Procedures for completeness, existence, accuracy and valuation of inventory, including inventory count procedures (2.0 hours).

Understanding and determining key audit matters and meeting the requirements of communicating and reporting (1.0 hours).

Determining procedures to perform and conclude on initial balances and comparative figures in initial engagements (1.5 hours).

Assessing, evaluating, documenting and reporting on going concern under Revised CAS 570 (2.0 hours).

Planning and performing group audits, including component materiality and communication requirements (2.0 hours).

Performing risk assessment procedures and developing risk responses for related parties and related party transactions (1.5 hours).

Audit Engagements

Audit Hot Topics

Strengthen quality in audit engagements by understanding current CAS hot topics, typical challenges faced in meeting requirements with guidance how to address them efficiently (2.0 CPD).

Understand and implement the requirements of identifying and assessing the risk of material misstatement to perform effective and efficient audit engagements (1.5 CPD).

Identify and implement the requirements of auditing accounting estimates and related disclosures in an effective and efficient manner (1.0 CPD).

Appreciate the requirements of analytical procedures and how to incorporate preliminary, substantive and final analytics into audit engagements in an efficient manner (1.5 CPD).

Audit Engagements

Journal Entry Testing

Identify and implement the requirements of understanding, selecting and testing journal entries in an effective and efficient manner (1.5 CPD).

Other Engagements

Other Engagements

Compilation Hot Topics

Strengthen compilation engagements by understanding CSRS 4200 hot topics, the typical challenges faced in meeting requirements and how to address them efficiently (1.0 CPD).

Other Engagements

Addressing Fraud Risk

Fraud happens in all types of organizations and it is important to appreciate the responsibilities related to fraud risk in order to respond and determine impact on engagement report (1.0 CPD).

Understand and appreciate the requirements of CSRS 4400, an engagement that may be an alternative in meeting your client’s requests (1.0 CPD).

Other Engagements

Review Hot Topics

Strengthen review engagements by understanding current CSRE hot topics, typical challenges faced in meeting requirements and how to address them efficiently (1.0 CPD).

Ethics and Practice Management

Ethics and Practice Management

Researching and Resolving Issues

Being in public practice inevitably means you will encounter issues, a structured approach to researching and resolving issues will help to save time and be effective. (1.0 CPD).

Ethics and Practice Management

The Power of Efficiency

It can be a challenge to get things done and the ability to find hidden moments throughout the day helps practitioners tackle their many competing priorities in practice (1.0 CPD).

Ethics and Practice Management

Putting Ethics into Practice

Ethics is fundamental to being in public practice and it is important to understand concepts, have an ethical decision-making process and identify biases to strengthen your practice (1.0 CPD).

Ethics and Practice Management

Strengthening Communications with Clients

We talk to our clients every day and strong communication skills helps to hold better client discussions, even those difficult ones (1.0 CPD).

Ethics and Practice Management

Professional Skepticism and Critical Thinking

Develop critical thinking skills to maintain an attitude of professional skepticism in engagements (1.0 CPD).

Ethics and Practice Management

Efficient File Reviews

Develop an effective and efficient approach to performing file and working paper reviews on audit and other engagements (1.0 CPD).

What Practitioners Are Saying

Only Kirsten can make auditing standards fun and enjoyable. She is a good speaker, very knowledgeable and always upbeat.

Saul Greenberg · Lazer Grant LLP