The U.S. Comptroller General will discuss GAO’s responsibilities under the CARES Act and issues specific to state and local governments. He will also discuss state and local challenges, international coordination and how we are all adapting to new ways of working as well as to our country’s fiscal condition, challenges in the IG community, and accomplishments attributed to the CFO Act of 1990.

Performing a single audit that meets all regulatory and audit requirements can be time consuming.  This session covers ways to meet the single audit requirements and tips on how to be efficient in the process.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has issued a series of ten scorecards, which grade agencies' implementation of FITARA and other IT-focused legislation. This session will cover the Scorecard's history, grading methodologies, potential limitations, and its future. 

This session will provide an update on the efforts by the Federal Audit Clearinghouse to modify the online repository that federal awarding agencies use to monitor direct recipients of federal funds. Also, provide instructions for retrieving and analyzing information from multiple data collection forms.

This session will address account and financial reporting implementation issues associated with the Statement on leases.  Topics to be covered include the definition of a lease; determining the term of the lease and the release liability and asset for both a lessee and a lessor; and other implementation issues, including those addressed in the accompanying GASB implementation guide.

The Offices of the Inspectors General (OIGs) aid federal agencies in meeting the demands for better governance and increased public value. Enter the world of these “watchdogs” and their independent audits, evaluations and investigations of programs and operations, including internal control and risk management. Examine how enterprise risk management (ERM) allows OIGs to face unprecedented risks while optimizing strategy setting and performance and fighting fraud, waste and abuse. Understand how OIGs are leveraging ERM to monitoring and/or addressing the impacts of COVID-19.

This presentation will cover current economic and financials as of early August, 2020. We will discuss key recent indicators in the U.S. economy and banking industry. The presentation will then cover the U.S. economic outlook, as well as some possible risks to the economy.

The Pandemic has impacted every government in multiple ways requiring preparers to determine the proper accounting and disclosures for new transactions and unprecedented circumstances.  Preparers and auditors also face the real possibility that  a significant amount of financial statement preparation and the related audit may need to be performed remotely.  This session will discuss applicable accounting standards identified by GASB in their Emergency Toolbox as well as audit related considerations.

Innovation is not automagical but it is an essential element for the audit community to tackle complex oversight challenges in a digitally connected world that cannot be fully addressed through conventional approaches alone. What strategy can we adopt to incorporate emerging capabilities - such as artificial intelligence (AI), distributed ledgers, robotic-process-automation (RPA), and cloud computing - and help drive better oversight questions with greater speed, scale, and depth? The Innovation Lab at GAO aims to shape the #FutureOfAudit to help our mission teams as well as a broad ecosystem of stakeholders sail into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.