ACPEN Signature: 2021 Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update

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Participate in the 2021 Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update to stay up to date on constantly changing events! Take advantage of your chance to learn about breaking government topics. This is your chance to learn about the most recent difficulties confronting state and local governments, as well as practitioners who work with and audit them, as given by renowned experts in governmental accounting and auditing, both from the trenches and from the regulatory world.

With all of the fiscal, regulatory, and new standards concerns that governments and auditors face, it is crucial to stay up to date on critical topics and changes. In 2021, governments and their auditors confront the various obstacles linked with the COVID-19 epidemic in a rapidly changing world. From the standpoint of governmental accounting, auditing, and compliance, 2021 will be a vital year for tackling the complicated pandemic-related difficulties while also focusing on adopting new standards and criteria! Furthermore, you must begin planning for the huge changes that will occur in 2022 and beyond!

You will be kept up to speed on the latest accounting and auditing issues affecting governments and government auditors. This includes concerns with Single Audit, AICPA and Yellow Book, new and recently effective GASB pronouncements, audit issues, and a look ahead. Join ACPEN’s expert panel as they explore not just the technical needs of new standards, but also the important implementation difficulties that auditors and their governmental customers must solve! Profit from their diverse expertise and views, as well as their extensive background in government accounting and auditing.

Fundamental Course Information

Objectives of Learning

Examine the latest recent advancements in government accounting and auditing.
Discuss the newly implemented GASB announcements.

Major Topics

Pronouncements by the GASB
Issues with a Single Audit
Yellow Book Problems
Audit Concerns
Pandemic Threats

Carole A. Burgess, CPA, is an Executive Editor of PPC products for Thomson Reuters’ Tax & Accounting business in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the author of the PPC’s Guide to Single Audits, the PPC’s Guide to Preparing Governmental Financial Statements, the PPC’s Governmental Financial Statement Illustrations and Trends, and the PPC’s Guide to Religious Organizations, as well as a contributor to other guides and continuing education courses. Carole also serves as the technical review editor for The PPC Nonprofit Update. Prior to joining PPC, Ms. Burgess worked for Deloitte & Touche, LLP, where she was a senior manager specialized in state and local governments and was nationally recognized as a compliance audit specialist pertaining to the Single Audit Act. Carole frequently speaks to accounting and other professional organizations, such as the Texas Society of CPAs.

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Frank Crawford, CPA, is the President of Crawford & Associates, P.C., Certified Public Accountants in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The business only provides auditing, consulting, and accounting services to government entities. Crawford & Associates has provided a wide range of audit and accounting services to governments of all sizes over the last 25 years, including, but not limited to, many types of financial audits and attestation services, planning and executing GASB 34 implementation plans, fraud investigations, internal control analysis, accounting policy and procedure development, contract internal auditing and internal monitoring, management anti-fraud programs and contingency planning. Mr. Crawford has chaired the AICPA Government Expert Panel and the Oklahoma Society of CPAs Government Accounting and Auditing Committee, and he has also served on a number of other AICPA committees and task forces related to governmental accounting and auditing, including the AICPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee, the AICPA Government and Not-For-Profit Expert Panel, the AICPA Government Performance and Accountability Committee, and the AICPA Government Performance and Accountability Committee. Mr. Crawford is also the Chairman of the AICPA’s National Governmental Accounting and Conference Planning Task Force, as well as a member of the AICPA’s Government and Not-For-Profit Training Conference Planning Committee. As a member of an advisory committee, task force, or technical content supplier, Mr. Crawford has aided the AICPA and GASB in the production of various implementation guides throughout the years. His expertise with GASB 34 implementation and audit concerns stretches back to June 30, 1999, when he was the auditor of the United States’ first general-purpose government to implement GASB 34 regulations. Mr. Crawford is also now working on audit finding resolution and financial analysis projects with a number of US territories, commonwealths, and freely associated states. Frank is a frequent lecturer, trainer, and discussion leader for a variety of groups, including U.S. Federal Government Agencies, CPA Firms, and State Societies, and has appeared in several AICPA continuing professional education videos and live satellite CPE broadcasts and Webcasts related to governmental accounting and auditing produced by the Accounting Continuing Professional Education Network.

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