What story are your financial statements telling about your company? Or—what story are the competitor’s financial statements telling? By running a few numbers and analyzing the status of certain key financial statement balances, you can begin to develop an overall picture of an organization’s health. Course objectives include: Determine key ratios for a particular industry […]
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Performance-Based Budgeting
Performance budgeting may be the best way to respond to increasing customer demand at a reasonable cost. Performance budgeting provides the means to link performance goals to the appropriate resources and then hold managers at each level accountable for achieving the results. Performance-based budgets put the money where the goals are. Large organizations and the […]
How to Interpret Financial Statements: The Basics of Finance for Non-Financial Professionals
No doubt about it, the more you know the language of business, the more you will be able to contribute to your organization’s success. Understanding the ins-and-outs of business finance, budgeting, and costs leads to wise and profitable decisions. This fun and interactive course starts with a humorous DVD starring John Cleese, of Monty Python […]
Government Accounting for the Non-Financial Professional
Have you avoided accounting and finance all your life? Have you noticed lately that your career and influence are limited because you don’t speak in accounting terms? Do you wonder why you are told to wait on some purchases but allowed to spend freely on other things? Do you ponder the meaning and purpose of […]
Yellow Book Auditing Standards 2018: Live & Customized
The GAO’s Yellow Book auditing standards (also known as GAGAS) set a high bar for auditors of government programs. The 2018 revision moves the standards around, re-emphasizes audit independence, and increases the auditor’s responsibilities for assessing, documenting, and disclosing internal controls. This course will be customized for your audit team – whether your team performs […]
How to Conduct a Performance/Operational Audit: Live & Customized
Operational audits are impactful and fun to perform because they are so creative and responsive to user needs. Operational auditors (often also known as performance auditors) generate their entire project from scratch, including choosing the audit criteria, developing an audit objective, and writing the audit program. The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Government Auditing […]
How to Detect Fraud During an Audit: Live & Customized
The Yellow Book (Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards) places responsibility on auditors to design their audit to detect fraud. But what does fraud look like? What techniques can you use to find it? And how does it rear its ugly head in the government environment? In this course, we will discuss the taxonomy of fraud as […]
Essential Audit Skills Training: Live & Customized
Essential audit skills training will give you the confidence you need to take on any audit assignment. As we cover the key steps of performing an audit – including risk assessment, objective setting, evidence gathering, audit documentation, and audit reporting – your knowledge of how your work fits into the whole audit will be fortified. […]
The Art of the Audit Finding: Live & Customized
Was your latest audit finding powerful? And did your team enjoy writing it? Findings can be fun to write and read. Yes, I said fun! By following a few key guidelines on content and organization, you can create an audit report masterpiece your team can be proud to stand behind. And on top of that, […]
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