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Building Cultures of Accountability: APIPA Holds 36th Annual Conference in Saipan, CNMI September 2025

10 October 2025

Monique

28 Leaders Graduate from the Executive Leadership Development Program, Expanding Pacific Alumni Network to 239

08 August 2025

Jason

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19 December 2024

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Grants Course

Grants Management Performance Improvement (Intermediate Topics)

February 08 - 10, 2022

David Rykken

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

This 3-day virtual course will focus on performance as well as compliance. Participants will be shown how to update: program/project narratives, continuation applications and carryover requests. In addition, participants will learn how to do post award actions and understand what the grantor is looking for in reports and audits.

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Finance Course

Preparing Finance Offices for the New Auditing Standards

January 26, 2022

Jeanne Yamamura

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

A suite of auditing standards – SAS 134 through SAS 140 – was issued in 2019 and 2020 with an original effective date of December 15, 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the extensive changes made in these standards, the effective date was delayed to December 15, 2021. That date is now rapidly approaching.

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Audit Course

Government Auditing Standards: Review and Update

January 26, 2022

Drummond Kahn

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All American Samoa participants welcome to sign up.

American Samoa

Receive an in-depth review and update on the 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards (the "Yellow Book"), plus a brief history on the development of the standards. Discuss the structure of the recent revision of the standards and the major changes, focusing on the sections applicable to performance audits. Discuss the purpose and requirements of individual standards, with emphasis on the recent changes. Apply specific standards to real-life cases.

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Audit Course

Conducting Performance Audits (US Virgin Islands)

January 18 - 22, 2022

Drummond Kahn

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All US Virgin Islands participants welcome to sign up.

US Virgin Islands

Gain a strong foundation in the theory, principles, and methodology for conducting performance audits in accordance with the Government Auditing Standards.

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Finance Course

Budget Formulation in the U.S. Virgin Islands

January 10 - 15, 2022

Drummond Kahn

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All US Virgin Islands participants welcome to sign up.

US Virgin Islands

Master the skills necessary to build an accurate and defensible budget compliant with budget-related legislation and the strict standards of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Learn how to define outcomes and other performance measures, gather the data necessary to prepare a budget, identify the dollar resources needed to attain the performance outcomes, and present and defend your budget.

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Photos from recent activities hosted by the Pacific and Virgin Islands Training Initiatives (PITI-VITI) in support of conferences, training and leadership development, are available below.