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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

Governmental Accounting Standards -- What's the Same, What's Changed, and Everything You Need to Know Now

August 31, 2022

Frank Crawford

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is issuing new standards and summarizing existing standards. This fast-paced session will provide auditors, financial statement preparers, and financial managers with the latest updates on what changed, what stayed the same, and what you may need to do differently (or keep doing) in light of the standards. We'll cover the important changes and review status of everything from GASB 87 to this year's new codifications in GASB 99. If you prepare, use, or audit government financial statements, you won't want to miss this session!"

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Audit Course

Planning for a risk-based audit: It's a RADICAL idea!

August 31, 2022

Stefani S. Levesque

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Join as we explore 7 key activities - researching, assessing, developing, identifying, communicating, and agreeing on logistics - in order to develop a comprehensive, risk-based, audit plan that is sure to focus your work for maximum impact.

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Leadership Course

Creative and Critical Thinking

August 30, 2022

Michael Binder

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All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

In this session, we will explore why creative and critical thinking are essential tools of auditor proficiency that should be applied throughout all phases of the audit process. The session will discuss personal and organizational challenges to creative thinking and change for breakthrough ways of seeing problems and considering new possible solutions. The presentation will include brain training exercises and tools to get participants thinking more abstractly to look beyond the obvious and 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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Audit Course

Leadership, Motivation, and Accountability for High-Performance Audit Organizations

August 30, 2022

Michael Binder

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

What makes a good leader? How do we motivate others? And how do we create an environment where staff members are fully accountable? These are the basic ingredients for high performing organizations – but in many audit organizations we promote or hire staff into management or leadership positions based upon their demonstrated technical skills, without preparing them to step into a leadership role requiring an entirely different set of knowledge, skills and abilities – which becomes self-perpetuating as their only reference may be their own managers who were also promoted based upon technical skill – and never learned to lead.

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Grants Course

Grants Management Overview

August 15 - 20, 2022

David Rykken

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All US Virgin Islands participants welcome to sign up.

US Virgin Islands

The Grants Management Overview course will provide updated information about grants and cooperative agreements, including the responsibilities of recipients and key tasks that must be completed during the project period. This course will be informative for administrative, finance and program staff from organizations that are involved with grant implementation. It will also be relevant for new staff on existing grants who do not have extensive experience in grants management.

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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.