Up-Coming CPE Events

FREE Audio Conf: 03/24/10: Suggested Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting

Register      Or     Check My Registration Status as of 3/10/2010 2:36:35 PM, Available Seats: 274 - Waiting List: 0 Event Date: 03/24/2010 Suggested Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting: Sharing the Government's Story Using Non-Financial Resources The Financial Management Advisory Council, The State Auditor's Office and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the OB2 Auditorium on March 24, 2010 from 11:00am-12:50pm. This will be provided FREE to all participants. CPE: 2 Hours AGA is pleased to announce its latest audio conference on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (GASB) Service Efforts and Accomplishments Project (SEA). GASB has tentatively set a date of June 30, 2010 to issue the final document on Suggested Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting of SEA Performance Information. Listen as the GASB project manager explains the project history, the due process procedure and why general purpose external financial reporting needs to include service efforts and accomplishments information. This audio conference will also include the components and the qualitative characteristics of the Suggested Guidelines and provide real life examples for explanations. To share her knowledge with us is Lisa Parker, CPA, Lead Project Manager for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s SEA and Economic Condition Reporting/Fiscal Sustainability initiatives; and Evie Barry, MS, AGA Director of Performance Reporting who will briefly describe the SEA program at AGA. Please plan to join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speakers’ commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences. Location: Office Building 2 (OB-2) Auditorium 1115 Washington Street SE Olympia, WA 98504 A map to OB2 is available online at: http://techmall.dis.wa.gov/images/maps/visio-ob2.pdf

FREE Audio Conf: 04/21/10: Latest Tools & Techniques for Auditors

Register      Or     Check My Registration Status as of 3/10/2010 2:36:35 PM, Available Seats: 261 - Waiting List: 0 Event Date: 04/21/2010 The Latest Tools & Techniques for Auditors The Financial Management Advisory Council, The State Auditor's Office and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the OB2 Auditorium on April 21, 2010 from 11:00am-12:50pm. This will be provided FREE to all participants. CPE: 2 Hours AGA, in conjunction with the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers and the Association of Local Government Auditors invites you to hear how using auditing analytics adds value to your organization. The use of technology—particularly audit analytics—is an internal audit industry best practice. Find out how government departments of all types can add significant value to the organization by using audit analytics to increase productivity and mitigate risks that lead to error, fraud and waste. Learn to: --Develop an audit analytics strategy to support the risk assessment process. --Align audit analytics with strategic direction of your department --Assign responsibility for key roles --Standardize audit-relevant data into a controlled repository --Identify key factors to ensure successful implementation of these analytic approaches This audio conference features a case study. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has a crucial role to play in today's economy through their commitment to sustaining home ownership, creating housing opportunities and supporting community development for those in need. The agency's staff is challenged to oversee numerous programs nationwide and to provide assurance to the Office of the Inspector General in the integrity, efficiency and effectiveness of HUD operations. To share their practical experiences in information technology audits and the use of audit analytics are Steve Biskie, CPA, CITP, CISA, director of services product management, ACL Services, Ltd. who has more than15 years of experience in information technology audit for public accounting (as a former Deloitte manager), private industry and with specialized risk management consulting firms; and Cliff Cole, computer audit specialist, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.. Please plan to join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speakers’ commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences. Location: Office Building 2 (OB-2) Auditorium 1115 Washington Street SE Olympia, WA 98504 A map to OB2 is available online at: http://techmall.dis.wa.gov/images/maps/visio-ob2.pdf

FREE Seminar - ARRA & XBRL: 04/22/2010

Register      Or     Check My Registration Status as of 3/10/2010 2:36:35 PM, Available Seats: 79 - Waiting List: 0 Event Date: 04/22/2010 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act XBRL Date: April 22, 2010 Location: GA Auditorium, 210 11th Ave SW OLYMPIA, THURSTON county 98504 (see driving directions below) Time: 8 AM to Noon (registration open at 7:30 AM) This will be provided FREE to all participants. This 4 hour class will provide information on the following important topics: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act How has ARRA changed your audit? What are auditors finding in Washington and other states? XBRL Extensible Business Reporting Language It is estimated that auditors and analysts spend up to one third of their time on the inputting and validating of financial data rather than actually analyzing it. Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, is the cutting-edge technology for the transfer of financial data. XBRL provides for the rapid and accurate transfer of data that, upon transfer, is automatically validated. The automatic validation of XBRL eliminates errors due to re-keying or faulty data links. This new technology is currently used by the Security and Exchange Commission and is in use internationally. This class will cover not only what XBRL is, but will discuss its design, its different taxonomies and its unique characteristics. In addition, there will be discussion on where XBRL is currently and its future. Finally, the class will look at the enormous potential this new technology provides to both auditors and analysts. Speakers: * Brad White, Assistant State Audit Manager * Danny Kermode-Regulatory Analyst at the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission CPE: 4 Hours Driving Directions: From North Interstate 5, take Exit 105A (State Capitol/City Center/Port of Olympia.) From South Interstate 5, take exit 105 (State Capitol/City Center/Port of Olympia.) Merge onto 14th Avenue SE. Turn Right on Capitol Way. Turn Left onto 11th Ave SE. The GA Building is on the corner of 11th Avenue and Columbia Street.

FREE Audio Conf: 05/19/10: Learning to Catch Ethical Slippage

Register      Or     Check My Registration Status as of 3/10/2010 2:36:35 PM, Available Seats: 275 - Waiting List: 0 Event Date: 05/19/2010 Those Faint Signals: Learning to Catch Ethical Slippage Before It's Too Late The Financial Management Advisory Council, The State Auditor's Office and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the OB2 Auditorium on May 19, 2010 from 11:00am-12:50pm. This will be provided FREE to all participants. CPE: 2 Hours AGA, in conjunction with the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT) and the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA), is pleased to announce a new and increasingly important topic to our audio conference schedule – cases of ethical lapses. During this audio conference, the presenter will recount some recent ethical lapses in government and examine the causes and effects. By examining a series of ethical lapses, we find that a pattern emerges. That pattern allows us to think about this question: What is it in the culture of an agency that allows obvious ethical breaches to occur and continue? Once we understand the culture, we can think about putting the detection methods, as well as antidotes, in place. The compliance training, the codes, and all those easily measurable components of ethical culture may not tell the full story. Without the full story, we can never be sure that we are catching all those gradual slips. The full story requires consideration of factors that are not easily placed into dashboard measures. The presenter takes a look at some of the faint signals which appear long before the ethical troubles emerge. To share her expertise in ethical behavior and its ramifications is Marianne M. Jennings, JD, Professor in the Department of Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (ASU). At ASU, Marianne teaches graduate courses in the MBA program in business ethics and the legal environment of business. Professor Jennings has authored hundreds of articles and has six textbooks and monographs in circulation. Marianne’s latest book, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, was published by St. Martin’s Press in July 2006. She has conducted more than 300 workshops and seminars in the areas of business, personal, government, legal, academic and professional ethics. Among her many awards and honors, Marianne was inducted into the AGA Speakers’ Hall of Fame and also received a writers’ award for best article in AGA’s Journal of Government Financial Management. Please plan to join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speakers’ commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences. Location: Office Building 2 (OB-2) Auditorium 1115 Washington Street SE Olympia, WA 98504 A map to OB2 is available online at: http://techmall.dis.wa.gov/images/maps/visio-ob2.pdf