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Island Governments Address Audit and Workforce Challenges at IGFOA 2024 Winter Meeting

19 December 2024

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Association of Pacific Island Public Auditors Successfully Completes 35th Annual Conference Over 400 Attendees Focus on Bridging the Gap of Public Accountability and Transparency

02 October 2024

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21 June 2024

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Audit Course

Government Auditing Standard Peer Review Update

August 25, 2021

Drummond Kahn

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Receive an in-depth review and update on the 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards, 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. Discuss APIPA's Peer Review schedule and next steps to review APIPA member offices.

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Audit Course

Auditor Heal Thyself: How Government Auditors Can “Walk the Walk” by Implementing Effective Internal Continuous Improvement and Culture Enhancement

August 25, 2021

Kip R. Memmott

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Public sector auditors are experts at helping their government organizations improve their operational cultures, control environments, and services. Yet, audit organizations are not always as focused on strengthening their own internal cultures, internal controls, and services. This session presents ideas for developing and deploying effective continuous improvement and change management activities within audit organizations and includes three entertaining audit organization change management case examples as well as learning objectives focused on auditing in a post-pandemic world.

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Grants Course

Introduction to Grants Management

August 25, 2021

David Rykken

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

The Grants 101 course will provide basic information about grants, including the responsibilities of recipients and key
tasks that must be completed during the project period. This course will be most informative for administrative and
program staff from organizations that were awarded a new grant in FY 2020 or FY 2021. It will also be relevant for new
staff on existing grants who do not have extensive experience in grants management.

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Audit Course

Creative and Critical Thinking for Auditors

August 24, 2021

Michael Binder

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Creative Thinking for Auditors explores why creative and critical thinking are essential tools of auditor providence that should be applied throughout all phases of the audit process. The class will discuss personal and organizational challenges to creative thinking and change, and ways to overcome the natural resistance to change for breakthrough ways of seeing root causes of problems and considering new possible solutions. This course will include brain training exercises and tools to get participants to think more abstractly to look beyond the obvious, to challenge the status quo, and to use process techniques for generating new ideas for action. This class will explore the power of “why” in looking for root causes of problems, and the power of the possible in considering new opportunities and threats for forward-thinking recommendations.

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Grants Course

Intermediate Grants Management

August 03 - 05, 2021

David Rykken

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

This 3-day virtual course will provide information about how to access guidance on compliance, how to update program/project narratives and how to avoid financial pitfalls. In addition, this course will provide information about how to prepare a continuation application, the steps that need to be taken to make changes to the grant as well as the concept of carryover and explain how to prepare a carryover request.

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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.