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wgt image of Introduction to Governmental Accounting & Reporting 12 Aug 2025 - 16 Aug 2025

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Introduction to Governmental Accounting & Reporting

This 5-day course (mornings only) is an introductory course for participants with little formal of governmental accounting. It provides an overview of governmental accounting systems and includes a basic introduction to accounting principles, internal controls, and documentation requirements.

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wgt image of Introduction to Governmental Accounting & Reporting 19 Aug 2025 - 23 Aug 2025

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Introduction to Governmental Accounting & Reporting

This 5-day course (mornings only) is an introductory course for participants with little formal of governmental accounting. It provides an overview of governmental accounting systems and includes a basic introduction to accounting principles, internal controls, and documentation requirements. It is helpful for participants who have completed a college accounting course but have found it difficult to transfer that knowledge into a heavily computerized environment.

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wgt image of Opening Plenary 09 Sep 2025 - 09 Sep 2025

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Opening Plenary

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wgt image of Auditing Grants 09 Sep 2025 - 09 Sep 2025

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Auditing Grants

Understand the full grants management process, the current regulatory requirements (OMB Revised 2022 Guidance) governing grants and the role of auditors in developing strategies for assessing compliance and performance. Learn to develop audit objectives and procedures to identify issues and recommendations for constructive feedback, corrective action and accountability. Learn the stages of effective grants management from award, monitoring, audit and close-out. Become skillful at implementing strategies for auditing, application of cost principles performance measurement and reporting through each of the grant stages by applying those strategies in case studies

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wgt image of Intermediate Acccounting 09 Sep 2025 - 09 Sep 2025

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Intermediate Acccounting

The Intermediate Accounting session will provide participants with an in-depth view into the world of governmental accounting. 

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wgt image of Understanding Governmental Accounting and Understanding the Financial Statements 09 Sep 2025 - 09 Sep 2025

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Understanding Governmental Accounting and Understanding the Financial Statements

Geared toward program managers, administrators, legislators, and other nonaccountants, this workshop provides an introduction to the basics of accounting followed by a guide to reading and understanding the financial statements. 

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wgt image of Basic Investigations 09 Sep 2025 - 09 Sep 2025

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Basic Investigations

This seminar will include a discussion of the components of a fraud investigation program, how to identify fraud, and what to do when you find it.  We will discuss developing policy, clarifying your authority and budget, identifying staff and support.  We will then discuss how to find fraud, by learning how to assess organizational vulnerability to fraud, how to build sources, how to be proactive, and give an overview of fraud schemes and what investigations of those schemes might look like in the wild.  We will include classroom exercises and actual case discussion. 

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wgt image of Principals' Meeting and Yellow Book Update/Presenting Audits (Reserved for Principals and Designees) 11 Sep 2025 - 11 Sep 2025

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Principals' Meeting and Yellow Book Update/Presenting Audits (Reserved for Principals and Designees)

Receive an in-depth review and update on the 2018 and 2024 revision of Government Auditing Standards, plus a brief history on the development of the standards. Discuss the structure of the 2018 and 2024 revisions of the standards and the major changes, focusing on the sections applicable to performance audits. Discuss the purpose and requirements of individual standards, with emphasis on the recent changes. The session will conclude with options for presenting audit results under the newest revisions of the Yellow Book.

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wgt image of Emotional Intelligence 11 Sep 2025 - 11 Sep 2025

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Emotional Intelligence

Managing positive and productive relationships throughout the audit, directing, coaching or working with members of the audit team, and dealing with auditees, organizational management and external stakeholders can be emotionally challenging and often confrontational. Auditors often must deal with difficult people in difficult situations - and must deal with the auditees! 

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wgt image of Awarding, Managing and Auditing Contracts 11 Sep 2025 - 11 Sep 2025

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Awarding, Managing and Auditing Contracts

You are a grant manager and you need to have contractors help you achieve your grant objectives.  Does your organization have the administrative knowledge of the various Federal requirements to ensure that the contract is awarded properly?  Is the proper contract type being used?  Does your organization perform a cost and price analysis before awarding a contract?  If you cannot answer yes to all these questions, then this course may help you.  

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wgt image of The Government Audit: From Planning to Reporting 12 Sep 2025 - 12 Sep 2025

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The Government Audit: From Planning to Reporting

If you have been assigned to only portions of a performance audit and need an overall perspective of the process, this course is for you. Improve your knowledge and skills related to all phases of the performance audit and the evaluation of results. By working a case study throughout the course, experience a complete audit, including preparing an audit justification, planning and conducting a survey, planning the audit and preparing a report. 

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wgt image of Coaching Staff for High Performance 12 Sep 2025 - 12 Sep 2025

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Coaching Staff for High Performance

A high performing audit organization needs skilled, committed, and motivated staff/team members that have a strong sense of organizational purpose and self-direction. Great audit managers and leaders need to put staff in a position to succeed while constantly learning, improving and growing. 

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wgt image of GASB and Standards Updates 12 Sep 2025 - 12 Sep 2025

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GASB and Standards Updates

The GASB Standards Update will provide participants with a working knowledge of recently release standards of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). 

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wgt image of Understanding the Single Audit 12 Sep 2025 - 12 Sep 2025

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Understanding the Single Audit

This course addresses compliance requirements and includes coverage of the Single Audit, findings, and corrective action plans.  The grant reporting function and process are also reviewed as are the links to the governmental accounting system.  Participants will leave the course with improved knowledge and skills in understanding the Single Audit Report and taking appropriate action. 

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wgt image of Audit Findings 12 Sep 2025 - 12 Sep 2025

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Audit Findings

A key challenge in reporting the results of performance audits is to formulate the report message from the audit data. An additional challenge is to then compile and sequence the audit facts to support that message. Using alternative methods, gain hands-on practice in marshaling the evidence from your audit into findings that answer the audit objectives and present the details in an understanding and convincing manner.

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wgt image of Performeter - Measuring Government Financial Performance 13 Sep 2025 - 13 Sep 2025

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Performeter - Measuring Government Financial Performance

The Performeter is an analytical tool that takes a government’s financial statements and converts them into useful and understandable measures of financial performance. 

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wgt image of Red Flags for Infrastructure Fraud 13 Sep 2025 - 13 Sep 2025

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Red Flags for Infrastructure Fraud

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides $1.2 trillion in federal spending over the next five years mostly in grants and contracts to states and local governments for public transit, railways, power grids, electric vehicles and buses, ferries, airports, waterways, climate change, broadband internet, environmental protection, drinking water, and transformation safety. This program of fast-moving money, with untested controls, provides vast opportunities for fraud and waste. Auditors, investigators, and grants and contract managers at all levels of government will need to be especially vigilant for possible schemes and red flag indicators of fraud that robs the public of funds and performance.

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wgt image of Practical Ethics 13 Sep 2025 - 13 Sep 2025

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Practical Ethics

This workshop addresses common ethical problem areas for government employees.  It focuses on the importance of culture in maintaining an ethical work environment.  

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wgt image of APIPA 2025 Closing Plenary: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace & Strengthening Collaboration for Oversight: SAIs and Stakeholders 13 Sep 2025 - 13 Sep 2025

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APIPA 2025 Closing Plenary: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace & Strengthening Collaboration for Oversight: SAIs and Stakeholders

The closing plenary will feature the following presentations: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace This session explores the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily lives and the workplace. The presentation will provide an overview of AI fundamentals, highlight where AI appears in our daily lives, and introduce generative tools such as Large Language Models (LLMs). The session will also cover AI prompting techniques, explore key challenges and issues in the AI landscape, and offer sample prompts that can be used in professional settings. Strengthening Collaboration for Oversight: SAIs and Stakeholders This session explores the oversight role of SAIs and how they can work with key stakeholders to hold the government to account.

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Camera Photo Gallery

Photos from recent activities hosted by the Pacific and Virgin Islands Training Initiatives (PITI-VITI) in support of conferences, training and leadership development, are available below.