Modernizing how
attest work gets done.
Audit partners, quality directors, and senior managers leading audit and assurance practices — navigating new standards, talent shortages, automation, and the question of what an audit practice looks like in five years.
- Risk-based audit methodology and quality — building the right approach for the right client, and defending it in peer review.
- Audit automation and data analytics in the field — what's actually changing how teams work, not what's being marketed.
- Single audits, employee benefit plans, and specialty engagements — the work that's hard to staff and harder to price.
- Talent — the audit pipeline crisis and what firms are actually doing about it.
- Standards updates and the changing peer review landscape — staying ahead without overbuilding.
- Realization and engagement economics — protecting margin on fixed-fee and lower-margin audit work.
Every Audit & Assurance session includes a working block on AI and technology — AI-assisted workpaper review, data analytics in the field, automated risk assessment, and how tooling changes audit quality and staffing models. This is not treated as a future-state curiosity; it's what firms are deploying right now.
Two working sessions per year — focused, agenda-driven, peer-led — plus a dedicated Audit track at the annual Insight summit and async member discussions in between.
Audit partners, quality control directors, and senior managers who lead attest work. If you're accountable for audit delivery, quality, staffing, or the growth of the assurance service line, this is your Council.