Description
$150 (per person) includes an online webinar for 2 hours of CPE credit
Don’t let others define your lane: Explore how to go beyond traditional mandates!
Auditing for Impact is concerned with evaluating how well public funds are managed and used to provide for community needs and help ensure that all residents have equitable access to government resources and services. This requires government auditors to broaden the analytical scope of their audits. They must include not only operational performance and document reviews in their analysis, but also the lived experience of end users and people who are to be served by a certain program or agency.
Moreover, if audit reports are to make an impact, it is important that decision makers and communities alike hear the message. In short, engagement plays an increasingly important role in the auditor’s work.
This 2-hour webinar covers strategies and practical steps government audit shops take to effectively incorporate stakeholder engagement in designing and implementing audits as well as communications efforts to raise awareness and amplify the impact of their work.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the “Bill Russel criterion” and determine how you can help your team win
- Identify the value of user experience and stakeholder stories as powerful audit tools
- Define effective ways and tools to report audit findings and make a compelling case
- Identify allies in civil society to advocate for the audit and its recommendations
- Describe how to integrate engagement with elected officials in your audit work
Program Level: Basic
Field of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Who Should Attend: Government auditors at every level of experience
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation Required: None
Instructional Method: Webinar (Group Internet Based)
CPE Credit Hours: 2
Date: Monday, March 31, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central
Webinar Leader:
Mark Funkhouser, MSW MBA PhD
Mark Funkhouser is a municipal finance and government performance expert who has spent decades in public service.
As the mayor of Kansas City during the Great Recession, Mark made the tough choices to put his city on the path to fiscal sustainability and focused on “smart with the money” policy approaches to make the city work for regular people. As the publisher of Governing magazine, Mark continued his commitment to good government through promoting innovation and peer learning across state and local jurisdictions.
In 2019, he founded Funkhouser & Associates, a consulting firm that supports the work of local governments and their partners through engagement, strategic planning, capacity development and fiscal analysis.
Mark is the founder of the International Center for Performance Auditing (ICPA) and a founding member of the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA). He previously spent 18 years with the Office of the City Auditor of Kansas City and 10 years with the Tennessee Division of State Audit. He has dedicated his career, research and writing to advancing the public sector performance auditing profession and strengthening its real-world impact.
Mark holds a master’s degree in social work from West Virginia University, an M.B.A. from Tennessee State University, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in public administration and urban sociology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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