Audit concepts and techniques you can use throughout your career

As you take on new audit roles and responsibilities, you'll want to develop a strong conceptual groundwork for all future audit learning.

You'll gain the skills and knowledge needed to perform duties commonly assigned to first-year audit staff.

Scaffolded learning to grow your skills

Level 1 covers the audit from the firm's perspective. You'll learn the core concepts and the dynamics of in-firm and client relationships, in courses that include:

• What Is an Audit?
• Nuts and Bolts: Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements
• Introduction to Professional Skepticism
• Deepen Professional Skepticism
• Understanding the Audit Process
• Audit Evidence
• New Auditor's Role on the Engagement Team
• Key Character Traits and Interpersonal Skills for Auditors
• Working Papers and Working Paper Documentation in a Financial Statement Audit
• Introduction to the Audit Risk Model

When taken together with Level 2 - New Staff: Practical Application, this level will help you become a successful auditor and firm member right from the start! 

Audit Staff Essentials − Your audit learning journey

From start to finish, Audit Staff Essentials (ASE) provides the training roadmap and support you need along your career journey. Designed to help you master your current position and excel in each phase of your career, this self-study series offers four levels that cover hands-on technical skills, conceptual expertise, and soft skill training.