Good for Whom? A Greater Focus on Equity in Audit – November 2024

Description

$150 (per person) includes an online webinar for 2 hours of CPE credit

Prompted by escalating racial tensions and social inequities in the United States and elsewhere around the globe, audit organizations have begun to incorporate equity as part of the official auditing standards. This has been a crucial step to help auditors expose inequities that often exist in terms of different access or quality of public services provided, lack of procedural fairness, and differing (even if unintended) outcomes for various groups of people.

This webinar spotlights how applying an equity lens in audits allows organizations to connect the dots between internal operations and procedures and externally facing work and impacts.

Participants will learn why equity (the third “e”) must be considered alongside efficiency and effectiveness to achieve impactful audits.

This 2-hour webinar will examine guidelines for putting an equity lens on audit criteria and recommendations for navigating the thorny issues and pushback that auditors may encounter when it comes to equity findings.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize why equity is a core audit criterion
• Identify and understand the four dimensions of equity
• Discern why audits of outcomes are inherently equity related
• Examine potential sources of criteria and data to assess equity and potential analysis approaches
• Manage and respond to the increased pushback that reporting on equity often entails

Program Level: Basic
Field of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Who Should Attend: Government auditors at every level of experience
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation Required: Optional advanced reading:

• A Call for the Pro-Democracy Field to Prepare for Gray Rhinos
• Inequality Is Inefficiency

Instructional Method: Webinar (Group Internet Based)
CPE Credit Hours: 2

Date: Friday, November 15, 2024
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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