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Analytical Procedures for Nonprofits


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Auditing- Technical

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Categories:
ACPEN Industry Institute |  Accounting and Auditing |  Yellow Book
Faculty:
Jennifer Louis, CPA
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.

Dates
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Description

Strong analytical procedures are critical for evaluating the fair presentation of financial statements. In addition, Financial statements are only as good as the information and trends that they produce for operational, strategic, or compliance purposes. This course will provide insights into how to determine the strength and efficiency of nonprofits in achieving objectives and knowledge to improve the analysis of the fair presentation of a nonprofit's financial statements.  

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Explain how properly designed and performed analytical procedures contribute to reducing audit risk
  • Describe the required elements of an analytical test that must be documented to satisfy professional standards
  • Describe the most common financial statement analytics used to interpret the financial results of a nonprofit
  • Common ratios and trends to assess liquidity, operating efficiency, leverage, and more  

Major Subjects
  • How to leverage preliminary and substantive analytic procedures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of financial statement audits
  • The required elements of a substantive analytic procedures to address detection risk
  • Tips and traps of applying an analytic approach to satisfy audit objectives
  • Explaining the usefulness of analyzing diverse trends and ratios in a nonprofit environment to meet the needs of various financial statement users
  • Common ratios and trends to assess liquidity, operating efficiency, leverage, and more

Course Materials

Faculty

Jennifer Louis, CPA's Profile

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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

Wed, May 07, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Tue, May 20, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Wed, Jun 04, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Sat, Jun 14, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Tue, Jun 24, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Thu, Jul 10, 2025 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PDT
Tue, Jul 29, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Wed, Aug 06, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Thu, Aug 28, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Tue, Sep 09, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Wed, Sep 24, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Thu, Oct 02, 2025 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PDT
Mon, Oct 20, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Sat, Nov 01, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Wed, Nov 26, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PST
Thu, Dec 04, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PST
Mon, Dec 15, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PST
Tue, Dec 23, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PST
Thu, Jan 08, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PST
Fri, Jan 23, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:47am PST
Sat, Feb 14, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PST
Tue, Feb 24, 2026 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PST
Thu, Mar 12, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Fri, Mar 27, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Wed, Apr 08, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Tue, Apr 28, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Thu, May 07, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Sat, May 23, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Wed, Jun 03, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Tue, Jun 16, 2026 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PDT
Mon, Jun 29, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT

Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation Familiarity with the nonprofit industry
Designed For Anyone responsible for analyzing or interpreting nonprofit financial statements
Original Recording Date 04/2025
Course Developer EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP
Date Added to Catalog 03/2025
Yellow Book Yes

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Instructional Delivery Method

Group Internet Based


Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


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