Advanced Grants Management

Understand the full grants management process, the current regulatory requirements governing grants, and the role of auditors in developing strategies for assessing compliance and performance. Develop audit objectives and procedures to identify issues and recommendations for constructive feedback, corrective action, and accountability. Learn the stages of effective grants management from award, monitoring, audit, and close-out. Practice strategies for auditing, applying cost principles performance measurement, and reporting through each grant stage by using those strategies in case studies.

What You Will Learn

• Explain the full grants management process and current regulatory requirements governing grants
• Identify the role of auditors in providing guidance and feedback to grant managers
• Describe the role of auditors in providing audit recommendations, assistance, and other constructive feedback to grant managers
• Identify options for audit objectives and procedures that are achievable and will provide timely, useful information
• Identify issues beyond compliance that need to be audited

Who Should Attend

Audit, budget, finance, accounting, and related management and staff members will find interest and value in this presentation.

Health & Safety Protocols

For all on-site training in the insular areas, the Graduate School USA's Pacific and Virgin Islands Training Initiatives (PITI-VITI) works closely with local training hosts to ensure that participants, instructors, and training support staff enjoy a safe learning experience. Please note the following:

• Full details of PITI-VITI's health and safety guidelines are available here.
• Local health and safety guidelines for the government of Guam, which will be hosting this training, is available at http://dphss.guam.gov/covid-19/.
• Please contact PITI-VITI Admin at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Tuition Fees

With funding support from the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, courses are available free of charge for government accountability professionals within the insular areas. The course fee is waived and there is no cost to register and attend, Professionals who do not meet the above criteria, please contact [email protected].