Yellow Book and Single Audit engagements are routinely selected for peer review and continue to be areas of heightened scrutiny by peer reviewers and federal oversight agencies. This course examines common deficiencies identified in governmental and Single Audit engagements, with a focus on understanding why these issues arise and how they can be avoided.
Participants will review frequent deficiencies related to Yellow Book requirements issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, including independence, CPE, and reporting considerations. The course also addresses common Single Audit deficiencies, including internal controls over compliance, compliance testing, and major program determination.
Designed for auditors performing governmental and Single Audit engagements, this course helps participants recognize recurring problem areas and better understand the requirements that continue to drive peer review findings.
DESIGNED FOR
Current and aspiring CFO's and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process
BENEFITS
- Define the budget process
- Understand varying budget cultures and choosing the right one for your organization
- Walk through a 12-step cure for the typical Budgetaholic
- Use Balanced Scorecard Budgeting
- How to build a model that works
- How the right Chart of Accounts can simplify your work
- Building a volume sensitive model
- Budgeting to GAAP and for Board understanding
- Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
- Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expenses
- Using variables to stress test your budget
- Understanding core personality types
- Learning the type of person you are
- Managing and coping with the budget team
- Dealing with A, B and C players
- Connecting through disconnection
- Identifying the ‘big picture” and your communications role
- Communicating so others can understand us
- Understanding a presentation’s anatomy
- Tips and tricks for budget presentation
HIGHLIGHTS
- Defining the budget process
- Common budgetary cultures and discussion of solutions
- Does your budget need an overhaul or just a tune up?
- How to make the budget flexible
- Making a better budget and maybe even a better you (or at least improving the perception of the budget work itself)
- How to build a flexible budget model that works?
- What are the steps we can take to budget for economic and external factors beyond our control?
- How the right Chart of Accounts can simply your work
- Budget and GAAP are not the same and why they are fine not to be
- Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
- Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense
- Using key variables to stress-test your budget
- Understanding your own leadership tendencies and applying them to your strengths?
- Understanding core personality types
- Learning what type of person you are?
- Managing and coping with the budget team
- Effectively dealing with the A, B, C and other players?
- Identifying the ‘Big Picture’ and your role in effective communication
- Communicating so others can understand us
- Understanding a presentation’s anatomy?
- Tips and tricks for budget presentations
PREREQUISITES
None
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None