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Auditors performing work under GAGAS need to complete 80 hours of CPE every two years with a minimum of 20 hours each year. The MNCPA offers Yellow Book credit for select seminars and conferences.
One of the toughest aspects of doing a Yellow Book audit is complying with the Yellow Book CPE requirements. CPE stands for continuing professional education, by the way. And the requirements are a little bit involved – so involved that the GAO dedicated 17 pages (!) to the requirements in chapter 4 of the 2018 Yellow Book.
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Competence is an auditor’s knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform their assigned work. The audit organization’s management must assign auditors who collectively possess the technical knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to be competent for the type of work being performed before beginning work on an audit. It must also assign individual...
The Yellow Book states, “Maintaining competence through a commitment to learning and development throughout auditors’ professional lives is an important element for auditors.” It requires auditors who plan, direct, perform engagement procedures for, or report on GAGAS engagements to develop and maintain their professional competence by completing a...
If you have questions about CPE or other Yellow Book requirements, the GAO is always willing to help. They may not tell you specifically if a topic is appropriate for the CPE you need based on your audit organization and the government environment in which you operate, but they will direct you to the paragraphs in the Yellow Book where you can look...
1 Nano learning programs are an acceptable learning method in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) and NASBA’s The Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs, revised in August 2016. Those standards are available at https://www.nasbaregistry.org/__media/Documents/Others/Statement_on_Standa...
Harriet Richardsonwas recently appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to be the first Inspector General for BART. She is a long-time contributor to ALGA, including being a past president, chair of the Professional Issues Committee, and frequent presenter for ALGA conferences and webinars. She currently serves as a local government representa...
In the United States, many types of health care professionals, ranging from infectious disease specialists to family medicine practitioners, offer travel medicine care and counseling. Travel medicine professional organizations offer training opportunities and certification programs for clinicians.
Nonsupervisory auditors who charge less than 40 hours of their time annually to Yellow Book assignments, and college or university students hired for a limited period of time, are exempt from all GAGAS CPE requirements.
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CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel is a resource for healthcare professionals providing care to international travelers. It compiles the US government’s most current travel health guidelines, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts.
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What are the 2018 Yellow Book CPE requirements? You've heard about the new Yellow Book (effective for audits of years ending June 30, 2020, and after). So, now you're wondering if there are any changes in CPE requirements. This article explains the Yellow Book continuing education requirements.
