Yellow Book Financial Audits and Attest Engagements
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
- Define the role of the GAO in establishing GAGAS Yellow Book requirements
- Recognize the relationship between GAGAS and other authoritative standards
- Define various engagements conducted using GAGAS Yellow Book requirements, including Financial Audits, as well as Examination, Review, and Agreed Upon Procedure engagements
- Recognize key performance requirements for the various GAGAS engagements
- Identify the special reporting requirements associated with GAGAS Yellow Book engagements
- Identify additional GAGAS considerations required under various Yellow Book engagements
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Instructor bio
John has extensive teaching experience serving as a Professor at Stanford, UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, San Jose State, and is the Director and Lead Faculty of the CPA Applied Program at Golden Gate University. While teaching college courses and leading audits with the Government Accountability Office, John has been the Lead Faculty for Becker Professional Education in Northern California for nearly 30 years. In addition to teaching live CPA classes, John has been involved in recruiting, training, and developing CPA instructors throughout the State of California. John is also an author and national instructor for Becker’s Continuing Professional Education program focusing on governmental accounting and auditing topics.
Before retiring in 2014, John served as a Senior Audit Manager for the Government Accountability Office which is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. In his capacity with the GAO, John led audits of the Bureau of Public Debt, Federal Reserve and IRS. He has also led work with the GAO reviewing the accounting and auditing standards setting process in the United States where he was actively involved with the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board. John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the California State University in Hayward, California and is an active U.S. Certified Public Accountant and past President of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting.
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