Audit Packages

By Bruce H. Nearon

Do you use paper-bound work papers and bulky folders for documenting your audits? Is your file room and office overflowing with audit work papers piled everywhere? If so, you should consider going “paperless” with an audit work paper software package.

Computer processing speed, ubiquitous networking, low-cost, high-capacity disk drive storage, and scanners all have converged to make the paperless audit not only possible, but mandatory to compete in an audit marketplace with razor-thin margins.

The Big Four went paperless long ago, but now leading national, regional and middle-market firms as well as sole practitioners all have jumped on the audit package bandwagon. There are many audit packages available, with a variety of features, but which suits your firm best?

Learn about the pros and cons of the premier audit software packages through attending the Nov. 5 morning continuing professional education (CPE) presentation organized by the New York State Society of CPAs Emerging Technologies (ET) Committee.

The event will cover the following topics:

• The leading audit software packages available
• Prices and features
• Functionality
• Compliance with SAS 95

  Date: Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002
  Time: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.: registration, networking, free continental breakfast
  9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.: CPE session
  Presenter: Daniel Tirone, CPA
  Location: NYSSCPA headquarters, 530 Fifth Ave. (between 44th and 45th streets), fifth floor, New York City

About the Presenter

Daniel Tirone is the owner of a leading professional accounting, auditing and consulting practice in the Buffalo area. He is a 1981 graduate of SUNY at Buffalo and is a member of the NYSSCPA and the American Institute of CPAs. Mr. Tirone also is the manager of the ET Committee’s student recruitment program. He can be reached at D.Tirone@worldnet.att.net.

Additional Information

This NYSSCPA/Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) morning CPE presentation is free to NYSSCPA members and $15 for nonmembers to qualify for one hour of CPE credit. At the session you will get the chance to network with the profession’s and the industry’s IT leaders.

Advance registration is recommended because seating is limited.

For additional information, contact Gary Carpenter at (315) 487-4567 or gcarpenter-cit@worldnet.att.net or Bruce H. Nearon at (973) 403-6955 or bnearon@jhcohn.com.

To register: contact FAE at (212) 719-8383 or (800) 537-3635 or visit the Society’s website at www.nysscpa.org. Select the Find Committees link at the left of the screen, scroll down to the Emerging Technologies Committee, select it, and then select “11/5/02 – Audit Packages” located under the FREE IT CPE banner.

Acknowledgments

J.H. Cohn LLP and Carpenter Information Technologies helped provide the funding and resources for the continental breakfast, marketing and publicity, and administration of this event.