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AICPA Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update Conference 2020



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This includes sessions from the conference: AICPA Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update Conference 2020

Sessions Included:

Querying the Federal Audit Clearinghouse (Aug 17, 2020 12:05 PM)

Developing an Effective and Efficient Single Audit (Aug 17, 2020 10:40 AM)

2018 Yellow Book Independence and Application (Aug 18, 2020 11:05 AM)

Economic and Banking Conditions Update and Outlook (Aug 17, 2020 03:00 PM)

Welcome and Introduction & GAO's Role in Addressing Major Challenges Facing Our National Government (Aug 17, 2020 08:00 AM)

Leveraging ERM to Drive Organizational Value (Aug 17, 2020 01:35 PM)

Single Audit Update (Aug 17, 2020 01:35 PM)

Have You Heard? A New AICPA Ethics Interpretation on SLG Independence is Coming (Aug 18, 2020 09:40 AM)

FASAB Update (Aug 18, 2020 11:05 AM)

Single Audit Update (Aug 18, 2020 11:05 AM)

Part 6 (Aug 18, 2020 01:30 PM)

Pensions & OPEB Common Errors (Aug 18, 2020 02:55 PM)

Sailing or Flailing? Driving Audit Innovations in the Digital World (Aug 18, 2020 09:40 AM)

Plain English/Writing (Aug 18, 2020 12:30 PM)

Single Audit Planning - Getting it Right Upfront (Aug 18, 2020 09:40 AM)

Documented and Done! Quality Documentation Expectations in a Single Audit (Aug 18, 2020 12:30 PM)

Setting Standards in Today's Environment - Future of Auditing (Aug 18, 2020 12:30 PM)

Shared insights into the FITARA Scorecard (Aug 17, 2020 12:05 PM)

COVID 19 Auditor and Preparer Considerations (Aug 17, 2020 03:00 PM)

GASB Statement No. 87: Leases (Aug 17, 2020 12:05 PM)

Good to Great: Elevating Your Story with Data and Performance Metrics (Nov 20, 2020 12:00 PM)

Increase Your Efficiency and Ensure Compliance with AP Automation (Nov 20, 2020 10:00 AM)

CFO's Guide to Strategic Planning (Nov 20, 2020 11:00 AM)

The Latest on PPP Loan Forgiveness &Other Pandemic Related Funding for Nonprofits (Nov 20, 2020 01:00 PM)

Process Automation: What it Means for Nonprofit Financial Management (Nov 20, 2020 02:00 PM)

$37900
Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Welcome and Introduction & GAO's Role in Addressing Major Challenges Facing Our National Government
    Identification
    GAE2001
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for George Strudgeon
    George D. Strudgeon, CPA, CGFM, CGMA, MBA
    Audit Director, Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts
    Speaker Image for Gene Dodaro
    Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Developing an Effective and Efficient Single Audit
    Identification
    GAE2004
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • Gain tips fo performing an efficient single audit.
    • Understand common pitfalls of single audit inefficiency

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Lindsey Oakley
    Partner, Forvis Mazars
    Speaker Image for Brittney Williams
    Audit Partner, HeinfeldMeech
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Shared insights into the FITARA Scorecard
    Identification
    GAE2006
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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. 

    Objectives

    • Understand the methodologies and data sources used to grade the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's FITARA Scorecard
    • Learn about the intent and limitations behind the grading methodologies

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Kevin Walsh
    Assistant Director, Government Accountability Office
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Querying the Federal Audit Clearinghouse
    Identification
    GAE2007
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • Communicate efforts to modernize collection and dissemination of Single Audit information.
    • Learn how to download the complete Single Audit Database.
    • Learn how to link the different download files of Single Audit information.
    • Learn how to analyze information from multiple Single audits.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Mark Dixon
    Branch Chief, US Census Bureau - Federal Audit Clearinghouse
    Speaker Image for Aaron Moon
    Survey Statistician, US Census Bureau
    Speaker Image for George Strudgeon
    George D. Strudgeon, CPA, CGFM, CGMA, MBA
    Audit Director, Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for GASB Statement No. 87: Leases
    Identification
    GAE2008
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • Understand what types of contracts meet the definition of a lease.
    • Determining the length of a lease for financial reporting purposes.
    • Recognize the reporting of a lease liability and lease receivable in the initial year.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for David Bean
    CEO and Former GASB Director, Governmental Accounting Research, LLC
    Speaker Image for Chris Pembrook
    Chris Pembrook, CPA, CGAP
    Shareholder, Crawford & Associates, P.C.
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Leveraging ERM to Drive Organizational Value
    Identification
    GAE2009
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • ERM implementation and best practices
    • Linking ERM, strategy and performance management to optimize mission achievement

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Temika Edwards
    DHS OIG
    Speaker Image for Jessica Southwell
    Chief Performance and Risk Management Officer, Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Single Audit Update
    Identification
    GAE2010
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Mary Foelster
    Senior Director, Governmental Auditing and Accounting, AICPA
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Economic and Banking Conditions Update and Outlook
    Identification
    GAE2012
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • Understand the current condition of the U.S. economy and banking sector.
    • Identify some possible risks to continued U.S. economic growth.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Chester Polson
    Chester Polson, Ph.D. in Economics
    Senior Financial Economist, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for COVID 19 Auditor and Preparer Considerations
    Identification
    GAE2013
    Date
    August 17, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • Identify applicable accounting standards and strategies for productively working remotely.
    • Strategize audit approaches for specialized accounting and disclosures.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Paulina Haro
    Senior Project Manager, GASB
    Speaker Image for Chris Pembrook
    Chris Pembrook, CPA, CGAP
    Shareholder, Crawford & Associates, P.C.
    Speaker Image for Robert Scott
    Deputy Town Manager, Town of Prosper, TX
    Speaker Image for Michelle Watterworth
    Partner, Plante Moran
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Sailing or Flailing? Driving Audit Innovations in the Digital World
    Identification
    GAE2015
    Date
    August 18, 2020

    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.

    Objectives

    • Understanding the unique duality that auditors face when it comes to emerging capabilities
    • GAO Innovation Lab's strategy
    • Select examples of transformation projects

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Taka Ariga
    Chief Data Scientist and Director of Innovation Lab, U.S. Government Accountability Office
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Single Audit Planning - Getting it Right Upfront
    Identification
    GAE2016
    Date
    August 18, 2020

    The success or failure of a Single Audit can usually be traced back to the planning phase . Planning procedures from risk assessments to major program determination to selecting applicable compliance requirements can set the audit team on the right path to proper engagement execution, if done well. If not done well, it can lead to nonconformity with professional standards and disciplinary action on engagement leaders. Please join us for this session as take a case study approach for what effective single audit planning should look like.

    Objectives

    • Participants will learn tool and techniques for approach their Single Audit engagements to ensure compliance with professional standards
    • Participants will learn common pitfalls that could lead to nonconformity in Single Audits and which should be avoided

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Thomas Sneeringer
    Partner, RSM US LLP
    Speaker Image for Eric Formberg
    Eric Formberg, CPA,CGFM
    Retired Partner, Plante Moran
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Have You Heard? A New AICPA Ethics Interpretation on SLG Independence is Coming
    Identification
    GAE2017
    Date
    August 18, 2020

    The AICPA Professional Ethics Division issued the State and Local Government Client Affiliates Interpretation to provide guidance to auditors of State and Local governments in evaluating  which entities are affiliates of those governments.  This session will go through the background of the interpretation, discuss examples of how affiliates would be evaluated using this interpretation, and preview some tools to assist in the evaluation.  

    Objectives

    • Identify new independence standards for government audits
    • Apply new independence standards to their government audits

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for John Good
    Managing Director, Ernst & Young
    Speaker Image for Flo Ostrum
    Partner, Grant Thornton LLP
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for FASAB Update
    Identification
    GAE2018
    Date
    August 18, 2020

    The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board marked its 30th anniversary and continues to actively pursue improvements to federal financial reporting. Attendees will learn about the challenging issues being addressed and have an opportunity to ask questions. Attendees will leave informed about:

    • FASAB’s COVID-19-related efforts, including redesigning technical inquiry web page and developing new webinars
    • What’s next for reporting on Leases, Land, Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A), and FASAB’s conceptual Framework
    • Reexamining existing standards for relevance, consistency, and usefulness
    • Areas for improvement in the federal reporting model and principles that will guide future efforts
    • Ongoing efforts in developing a federal agency training and outreach program to share the extensive library of authoritative standards the Board has produced and to assist agency personnel in navigating that guidance 

    Objectives

    • Recall the issues the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board views as a priority in the near term and why
    • Recognize newly issued standards
    • Identify emerging issues

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for George Scott
    George Scott, CPA, CGMA, CGFM
    Chair, Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
    Speaker Image for Ross Simms
    Ross Simms, CPA, CIA, CGMA
    Assistant Director, FASAB
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Single Audit Update
    Identification
    GAE2019
    Date
    August 18, 2020

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Mary Foelster
    Senior Director, Governmental Auditing and Accounting, AICPA
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for 2018 Yellow Book Independence and Application
    Identification
    GAE2020
    Date
    August 18, 2020

    The 2018 Yellow Book revises the requirements on independence, especially as it relates to the performance of nonaudit services related to preparing accounting records and financial statements. This session will help you understand the new independence requirements.

    Objectives

    • Provide an overview of the 2018 Yellow Book rules
    • Reinforce important concepts using examples
    • Discuss best practices and tips for preparing related documentation

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Elaine Cahoon
    Elaine M. Cahoon, CPA, CGFM, CISA
    Director, KPMG
    Speaker Image for Flo Ostrum
    Partner, Grant Thornton LLP
    $4900
    Standard Price
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