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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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Island Government Finance Officers Association Holds a Successful Annual Meeting in Orlando

21 June 2024

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Audit Course

Planning for Successful Audits

January 20 - 22, 2021

Martin Ruben

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

This course provides auditors with an understanding of the key attributes associated
with planning an effective audit and ensuring that it addresses the critical issues for the
entity being audited. Sessions will include interactive lectures, case studies and discussion of
current audits to enable participants to best implement course concepts in their audit work.

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Audit Course

Essentials of Risk-Based Auditing

January 05 - 07, 2021

Margie P. Bastolla

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Understanding risk is one of the auditor’s greatest assets. During this workshop, participants will explore a wide variety of risks including internal, external, entity-wide, activity-level, financial, operational, and reputational. Furthermore, participants will study the COSO framework to enhance their knowledge of risk and control. Finally, participants will develop a risk-based audit program to reinforce concepts learned.

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Finance Course

Practical Ethics for Government Employees

December 15 - 16, 2020

Jeanne Yamamura

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

This 4-hour workshop delivered in 2-hour sessions over 2 days (4 CPE) addresses common
ethical problem areas for government employees. It focuses on the importance of culture
in maintaining an ethical work environment.

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Audit Course

Assessing Controls in Performance Audits

December 14 - 16, 2020

Drummond Kahn

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Explore the relationship of controls to risk and to processes and systems, the prerequisites
for good controls, and techniques for assessing the design and implementation of controls.
Become proficient recognizing potential risks and in preparing clear objectives that define
what your audit will accomplish using a step-by-step process for planning an audit of controls,
the relationship of control weaknesses to the elements of a finding and incorporating findings
into audit reports.

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Audit Course

Government Auditing Standards - Yellow Book Update

December 01 - 02, 2020

Drummond Kahn

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

An in-depth review and update on the 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards, plus a
brief history on the development of the standards.

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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.