Today we’re looking at four common grant mistakes regarding the un-allowability of public relations costs you may experience when managing your Federal grant.
Audit Findings: An Online Workshop – February 2022
7 Ways to Spot a Subrecipient Relationship
GAO Yellow Book Technical Update
On April 14, the GAO issued a technical update to the 2018 Yellow Book. I will be writing more about this in future newsletters, but wanted to alert you to these changes as soon as possible. Most of the changes impact performance auditors. The GAO has thankfully reversed their requirement that all 17 principles of […]
Internal Controls Workshop – February 2022
webinar
COSO and the GAO Green Book are the same thing
GAO Green Book, GAO Yellow Book … will the Government Accountability Office (GAO) never cease creating books with colored covers? Next thing you know, the GAO will come out with a Purple Book! The GAO Green Book’s formal title is Standards for Internal Controls in the Federal Government. The GAO Yellow Book is also known as Generally Accepted […]
How to Perform a Financial Audit
self-study
Is your audit report sexy?
Audit report writing doesn’t have to be so hard. Problems in creating an audit report can be avoided. And reports can and should be sexy.
What is the job of an auditor?
Auditors, I suggest you keep your job title on the down-low when meeting someone new at a party. Why? Because just as soon as you reveal you are an auditor, your new acquaintance will get very quiet. Shortly thereafter, your not-yet (and likely will-never-be) friend will leave to get a drink and never come back. […]