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Overview

Quality management (QM) implementation Q&As

The fast-paced and interactive QM series offers condensed, high-impact Q&As and live participant-driven discussions on focused topics that change each session.

You will get practical answers to your specific QM implementation questions to support effective QM implementation within your organization.

This series is free for AICPA members.

Highlights

Schedule of sessions:
Ethics, Resources; Governance and Leadership
Wednesday, April 2


  • Identify and optimize resources necessary to build a strong QM framework. Learn best practices for leveraging resources to support the quality management objectives, including assessing and responding to risk.
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    Client Acceptance, Engagement Performance, and Communication
    Tuesday, June 17

    This session will emphasize the practical steps for implementing QM standards effectively. Get insights into the challenges and strategies of transitioning from planning to action in quality management.
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    Documentation, peer review and the QM standards
    Tuesday, August 12

    Understand how peer review intersects with the new QM standards, how to address common questions on compliance, and gain insights on preparing for peer reviews. You will learn to align your QM processes to meet peer review expectations.
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    Policies Ready? Leadership Responsibilities, Evaluation, and Conclusion
    Tuesday, September 30

    With the new QM standards' effective date just a few weeks away, this session helps you assess your readiness. Join a live walk-through of a final checklist to ensure your policies and procedures are robust and responsive to quality risks.

    Prerequisites

    Familiarity with the AICPA Statements on Quality Management Standards

    Designed For

  • Auditors
  • Quality management directors
  • Peer reviewers

    Objectives

    • Identify best practices for leveraging resources to support quality management objectives.
    • Recognize practical steps for implementing QM standards.
    • Recall how to address common compliance questions.
  • Leader(s):

    Leader Bios

    Renee Rampulla, AICPA

    Renee Rampulla, CPA, CGMA has over twenty years of professional experience. She consults, writes, and lectures on technical accounting and auditing issues. Renee has extensive experience in the auditing of public and privately held entities ranging from the manufacturing and service sectors, to financial services. Previously she was a partner in a regional accounting firm in the northeast in charge of the firm’s accounting and auditing practice and their quality control group. Renee is the founder of Rampulla Advisory Services, LLC. Her clients include nationally recognized professional organizations, accounting firms, companies, publishers and others. By devoting several years of her career at both regional and Big Four accounting firms Renee accumulated a wealth of technical and practical knowledge. In addition, while working for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), she performed professional ethics investigations; worked closely with senior technical committees; presented technical guidance before standard setters; and authored and updated several AICPA publications. For several years Renee has been an adjunct lecturer at a university in New York City. She has taught numerous undergraduate accounting and auditing courses. Renee enjoys teaching and is an instructor and author of several continuing professional education courses for the AICPA, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ (NYSSCPA) Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE), and other organizations, covering a variety of FASB and IFRS accounting guidance along with PCAOB and ASB auditing standards. Renee holds a BBA in Public Accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College. She is a member of the AICPA, the NYSSCPA, the New Jersey State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), the Institute of Management Accountants, the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the National Conference of Certified Public Accountants Practitioners

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