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Interviewing Skills for Auditors includes a self-study e-book delivered immediately upon purchase. Answer questions online to receive a certificate of completion for 7 hours of CPE credit.

Interviewing is one of the auditor’s most common tasks. And handling an interview well is vital to having a successful auditor/auditee relationship.

This self-study course focuses on the basics of how to develop effective interviewing skills and build rapport with the people you interview – whether they are employees at an audit client or witnesses during a fraud examination.

Topics in this course include relationship building, verbal and nonverbal communication, planning and scheduling an interview, asking and responding to questions, steps in conducting an interview, and documenting an interview and follow-up.

The AICPA’s fraud standards and the GAO Performance Audit requirements under GAGAS for detecting fraud are also covered.

Course objectives include:

Identify the competencies of a good interviewer
Indicate behaviors that are not conducive to a positive interview
Identify concepts that can help the interviewer maintain a trustful, pleasant relationship with the client
Differentiate among body language cues
Classify evidence into one of three types
Define chain of custody
Identify the requirements for uncovering fraud in the audit standards
Evaluate the pros and cons of various styles of conducting interviews
Identify the steps of conducting an interview
Identify negative listening behaviors
Identify ways to keep the interview on track

Recommended CPE credit: 7 hours
NASBA Category of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Program level: Basic
Prerequisites: None
Advance preparation: None
Who should attend: Auditors
Instructional method: Self-study text with online qualified assessment. QAS SS
Author: Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA

This course is also included in the Essential Skills Bundle, the Creating a Productive Auditor & Auditee Relationship Bundle, and the Performance Audit Essentials Bundle.

This course does qualify for the 24 hour Yellow Book CPE requirement.

READ INSIDE THIS BOOK: https://yellowbook-cpe.com/why-auditors-fraud-examiners-conduct-interviews.html

Questions? You can find our FAQ here.

What People Say About This Course

“Leita, it is rare to find such delightful writing in an accountant. Congratulations on integrating many skills into your work. What you write enriches me in areas that have nothing to do with performance auditing. Thanks.” – Interviewing Skills for Auditors student

“The course was easy to read, enjoyable, and provided a lot of good information that will help me as an auditor.” – Government Internal Auditor

“I have learned some things that will make the interviews in the future smoother, quicker and make the documentation of the interviews better.” – Interviewing Skills for Auditors student

“I even used a few tips from it on a pain-in-the-rear VP to get him to see my way on a few issues we had.” — University Internal Auditor

“The section on how to ask your client about fraud was very helpful. Asking these questions is not easy and the suggested possible questions were very helpful.” — County Auditor

“Everything that was discussed in this program was very useful and will benefit me in the future when I go and have an interview with a client. Now I know what to say and act because the ideas in this program were very relevant and easy to understand.” — Auditor in Public Practice

“The examples were written in an interesting fashion which made the reading easier. In addition, the playful but informative way the narrative was written kept my interest.” — Federal Auditor

“I have a great checklist to run through before and after interviews now.” – County Auditor

“It was well-organized, clear, and contained many useful suggestions that were especially relevant to auditing.” – State Auditor

Interviewing Skills for Auditors

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