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Assurance Services
Discover practical techniques that can be implemented by practitioners at all levels, resulting in highly effective and efficient engagements.

Overview
Learning Objectives
Courses
Assurance Update
(Half Day — 3 hours)
This course provides an update to key standards in the Canadian Auditing Standards (CAS) and other standards in the CPA – Canada Handbook – Assurance, including reporting standards, and addresses other relevant assurance matters.
It also highlights the impact these revisions will have on your practice, and shares practical tips for successful implementation.
Audit Engagements Workshop
(Full Day — 5 hours)
This course revisits key audit requirements as it relates to planning, performing and reporting on engagements. By providing Neverest with a few completed engagement files to review in advance to identify training focus points, explore your firm’s typical engagement trouble spots and obtain tips for documenting work appropriately. Identify opportunities for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of your audit engagements.
Review & Compilation Engagements Workshop
(Half Day — 3 hours)
This course revisits key concepts and requirements of CSRE 2400, Engagements to Review Historical Financial Statements, and CSRS 4200, Compilation Engagements.
It also explores areas where you can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of these engagements.By providing Neverest with a few completed engagement files to review in advance to identify training focus points, explore your firm’s typical engagement trouble spots and obtain tips for documenting work appropriately. Identify opportunities for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of your review and compilation engagements.
Assurance Re-Engineering Program
(4 Full Days — 20 hours)
This training course is designed for firm professionals at all levels (juniors to experienced managers and partners) who:
- Work together in an assurance practice, and;
- Are interested in identifying practical techniques for planning, performing and wrapping up their engagements more effectively and efficiently.
The Neverest instructor works with a firm designated representative to learn about your practice, including reviewing excerpts of working papers from completed assurance engagements. The Neverest instructor will use this understanding of the firm’s approach to appropriately customize course delivery.
Participants learn practical tools and techniques to “re-engineer” each engagement to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of all future audit and review engagements.
Tools & Techniques for Junior Professionals
(3 Full Days — 15 hours)
This course enables participants to understand the practical differences between the various types of assurance engagements. It explores the risk based audit approach and enables participants to recognize common risks and objectives for each audit area. It encourages staff to understand the link between planned audit procedures and the identified overall and financial statement assertion level risks. It provides an opportunity to execute audit procedures and learn how to effectively and efficiently create working paper documentation to demonstrate the nature, timing and extent of procedures performed. Finally, it reviews active listening techniques to enable participants to develop their abilities to gather relevant and reliable audit evidence through client interviews.
Using a case study approach, participants work in small group ‘audit teams’ to plan, execute and report on an audit engagement. Teams learn to identify the risks and objectives of each audit area and work together to ensure planned audit procedures are appropriately targeted to risks. At the conclusion of each audit area, teams compare the approach and procedures used to those that would typically be used in review engagements.
Tools & Techniques for Intermediate Professionals
(3 Full Days — 15 hours)
This course develops the technical and supervisory skills of individuals.
It provides an in-depth examination of how to perform a risk assessment. It explores gaining the appropriate depth of understanding of entity level and activity level risks and controls, including a sufficient understanding of information technology risks and controls. It provides technical guidance in areas that are common trouble spots: using sampling and analytical procedures effectively and auditing complex areas such as management estimates, payroll, and revenues. Participants learn techniques for performing working paper file reviews effectively and efficiently. In addition, this course targets the development of some key soft skills when interacting with clients and colleagues. In the spirit of continuous improvement, participants will also gain strategies for soliciting constructive and timely feedback from supervisors and partners and learn how to contribute to the firm by providing meaningful performance feedback to staff in a professional manner.
Tools & Techniques for Senior Professionals
(2 Full Days — 10 hours)
This course advances the skills of experienced professionals by improving their abilities to lead assurance engagements, manage engagement teams and interact with clients and other stakeholders.
Using project management techniques, participants explore each phase of an assurance engagement to find opportunities to improve engagement effectiveness and efficiency. The benefits of coaching and mentoring staff are explored while introducing a framework that encourages flexibility for success in leading teams.
Other Customized Training Programs
Customized Training Programs
Dive into a diverse range of training programs, including assurance, accounting, ethics, internal audit, communication and leadership. Immerse yourself in valuable and engaging group sessions. Join the prestigious league of top-tier organizations that trust us as their go-to training partner.
Ethics
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Delve into the depths of ethical responsibilities. Navigate intriguing and relevant case study scenarios and unlock the advantages of utilizing a robust decision-making model.
Ethics
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Neverest's ethics training highlights a professional’s ethical responsibilities, and analyzes a variety of real-life scenarios and relevant case studies.
Financial Accounting
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Journey into the world of accounting standards with Neverest's expert-led training. Uncover the intricacies of Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE) and Accounting Standards for Not-for-Profit Organizations (NFPO) under the guidance of our seasoned trainers.
Financial Accounting
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Neverest's expert-led training explores updates on accounting standards, while sharing practical approaches for effective and efficient compliance.
Internal Audit
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Elevate your team's internal auditing skills with Neverest's specialized training in the fundamentals of risks and controls, and leading practices of risk-based auditing and engagement management.
Internal Audit
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Enhance internal auditing skills with Neverest's risk-based auditing fundamentals and audit project management techniques.
Communication

Neverest's Mind Reach Training communication courses help participants build concrete skills for interfacing with their teams, clients, and other key stakeholders in a much more productive and efficient way.
Communication

Neverest's Mind Reach Training communication courses help participants build concrete skills for interfacing with their teams, clients, and other key stakeholders in a much more productive and efficient way.
Leadership

Discover the importance of using a variety of leadership styles and techniques through Neverest's Mind Reach Training leadership training courses. Participants explore a range of leadership approaches, and learn how to quickly determine the optimal style to use for each situation they encounter.
Leadership

Discover the importance of using a variety of leadership styles and techniques through Neverest's Mind Reach Training leadership training courses. Participants explore a range of leadership approaches, and learn how to quickly determine the optimal style to use for each situation they encounter.
Other Customized Consulting
Customized Consulting
Tailor services to your team's needs. Neverest provides customized solutions so you get exactly what you need, when you need it.
Advisory Services
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Experience Neverest's ongoing advisory services. We guide you in firm quality control, engagement planning, and mastering the application of accounting, assurance and ethical standards.
Advisory Services
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Neverest offers on-going advisory services for firm quality control, engagement planning, accounting, assurance, and ethical matters.
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Empower your team to comply with quality control standards with Neverest's expert support. Our services include cyclical file reviews, annual monitoring support, and assistance in addressing inspection findings.
Monitoring
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Neverest helps your team comply with quality control standards through cyclical file reviews, support with annual monitoring, and assistance with responding to inspection findings.


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Get the answers you need
about Neverest's
training.
Neverest offers a wide range of customized professional development training for accountants and auditors in the areas of assurance, accounting and ethics, internal audit, communication and leadership skills. Our expert-led training courses are designed to improve performance and inspire engagement, enabling participants to apply improved skills and techniques immediately to their jobs.
We also provide consulting services to provide you and your team with the on-going support you need, when you need it.
Although having an individual attend training on a per-seat basis can assist that individual improve their work performance, the motivation and focus of that individual often wanes as they return to their ‘regular’ work routines. By having the entire team experience the training together, you create momentum that helps each team member keep the training messages alive long after the session, and it empowers co-workers to continually encourage and recognize each other for improved performance.
All of our courses are delivered as live, virtual training. Our clients find this model to be the most flexible and most cost effective as it eliminates the need for room rentals, food, and travel costs for the instructor and participants. It also allows teams across different locations to all experience the course at the same time, together.
Yes, we work with you prior to course delivery to understand the unique needs and roles of your team members.
Based on your input, we customize each course using our understanding of your team’s roles, responsibilities, and experience, as well as the common challenges and issues they face, to ensure training messages are focused, easy to understand, and relatable.
During the training we require each participant to develop a personalized action plan, committing to a minimum of three specific action items based on what they learned during the course. We encourage organizations to have participants share these action plans with their supervisors and incorporate these learnings into their performance development plan for increased visibility and accountability.
Please contact us to discuss your training needs and preferred schedule. We will work with you to find the earliest available date that fits your requirements.
Neverest was founded in 2007, and has been providing professional development training courses and consulting services to a variety of organizations including public accounting firms, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, the public sector, and professional institutes.
Neverest offers customized training programs tailored to the specific needs of our clients, with a focus on practical and relevant learning that can be applied to ‘real-life’ situations. Our team of experienced professionals provides personalized attention and support throughout the training process to ensure optimal learning outcomes. Additionally, we offer follow-up sessions, reinforcement tools, and consulting support to ensure continued growth and development even after the training is complete.