Avoiding Peer Review Deficiencies and Professional Liability in Public Accounting
Total Credits: 4 including 4 Auditing- Technical, 4 Business Management & Organization - Non-technical
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- Categories:
- ACPEN Industry Institute | Accounting and Auditing | Yellow Book
- Faculty:
- Jennifer Louis, CPA
- Course Levels:
- Basic
- Duration:
- 4 Hours
- License:
- Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.
Description
Peer review deficiencies and professional liability claims result from both audit and nonaudit services. This course will provide best practices for avoiding legal liability and quality control concerns for a wide variety of professional services offered by public accountants.
Basic Course Information
Learning Objectives- Recall the nature of risks faced when performing a variety of professional services for clients
- Explain how to mitigate risks faced by all CPAs in performing professional services
- List best practices for maintaining quality control for all professional engagements
Major Subjects
- Differentiating risks faced when performing various levels of professional services, such as audits, reviews, compilations, preparing financial statements, bookkeeping, tax return preparation, and similar
- Best practices for preventing quality control concerns that could lead to peer review deficiencies or malpractice claims
- Establishing an understanding with the client to minimize misunderstandings as to the nature and scope of engagements
- Explain situations when independence should be appropriately safeguarded when performing nonattest services
Course Materials
IMPORTANT_CPE Credit Instructions_Read Before Webcast_2025 Update (434.2 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Faculty

Jennifer Louis, CPA Related Seminars and Products
President
EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP
Jennifer has over 25 years 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, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis. Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years. Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and audit process consulting firm later acquired by Thomson Reuters. Over her six years at AuditWatch, Jennifer served many roles. She began her career at AuditWatch as Vice President of Product Development. Jennifer also served as an instructor and consultant for the firm’s Audit Productivity Improvement Program (a comprehensive program enabling accounting firms to enhance audit quality and improve audit efficiency), as well as various other training courses. Later, Jennifer was primarily responsible for working with clients to design high-caliber, customized training programs. She led the Training Services Division, which includes AuditWatch University (“core-level” staff training for new hires to managers) and related offerings. She also co-authored the Guide to Value-Added Auditing (Thomson/Practitioners Publishing Company, Fort Worth, TX, July 2001).
Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP. While at AARP she served as one of their specially trained facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing and leading strategic meetings and trainings.
Jennifer was also an Audit Manager at Deloitte, in Washington, DC. During her five years with Deloitte, she was a frequent local and national instructor. Jennifer also served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program.
Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting. She is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is licensed to practice accounting in the Commonwealth of Virginia and North Carolina.Contact Jennifer via email at jlouis@emergentgroup.net, or via LinkedIn
Dates
Fri, Jun 27, 2025 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Tue, Jul 08, 2025 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Wed, Jul 23, 2025 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Thu, Aug 07, 2025 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Wed, Aug 27, 2025 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Thu, Sep 04, 2025 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Wed, Sep 17, 2025 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Wed, Oct 08, 2025 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Sat, Oct 25, 2025 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Thu, Nov 06, 2025 - 05:00pm to 09:00pm CST
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Thu, Nov 20, 2025 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CST
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Mon, Dec 08, 2025 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CST
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Thu, Dec 18, 2025 - 05:00pm to 09:00pm CST
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Sat, Dec 27, 2025 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CST
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Tue, Jan 06, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CST
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Wed, Jan 21, 2026 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CST
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Thu, Feb 12, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CST
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Mon, Feb 23, 2026 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CST
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Thu, Mar 05, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CST
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Tue, Mar 24, 2026 - 06:00pm to 10:00pm CDT
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Wed, Apr 01, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Sat, Apr 18, 2026 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Wed, May 13, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Tue, May 26, 2026 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Sat, Jun 06, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Wed, Jun 10, 2026 - 12:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
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Thu, Jun 25, 2026 - 08:00am to 12:00pm CDT
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Additional Info
Basic Course Information
Prerequisites NoneAdvanced Preparation None
Designed For Anyone who performs audit or other attest services
Original Recording Date 06/2025
Course Developer EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP
Date Added to Catalog 03/2025
Yellow Book Yes
Additional Information
Complaint Resolution PolicyPlease contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement
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Instructional Delivery Method
Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements
Online Registration
Refund/Cancellation Policy
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