Claudia Leonardi

Claudia is a partner in KPMG Canada’s Department of Professional Practice in National Office.  She has over 10 years of experience in the interpretation, and efficient and effective implementation, of assurance standards (Canadian, International, PCAOB, and US GAAS), KPMG methodology, assisting in the development of tools, templates, and training.  This includes audits and reviews of financial statements and other historical financial information, reasonable assurance and limited assurance attestation engagements on non-financial information, and other non-assurance engagements in the CPA Canada Handbook - Assurance such as compilation engagements and specified procedures engagements.    

She is very active in KPMG global initiatives related to the same subject matters and serves on several task forces and groups of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board of the CPA Canada such as those that address  expanded auditor reporting, new review reporting standards, assurance implications when converting to IFRS, implications of proposed ED 540 on auditing estimates, and interpretations of the CASs, etc.