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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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Leadership Course

Introduction to Project Management

March 14 - 18, 2022

Clarissa Corbin, PMP

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Project Management is high demand professional skill in business. You can’t look at a job description without seeing project management skills preferred or required. This class is a great introduction to what project management is and what project management does. This class uses a hands-on interactive approach to teach the high-level techniques
needed to manage a project from concept to conclusion.

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Human Resources Course

Building Employee Engagement in the New Workplace

February 16 - 17, 2022

Robert Lavigna

virtual icon Virtual

All region participants welcome to sign up.

Regional

Government organizations perform well when they have talented and committed employees. Decades of research have shown that improving the engagement of employees will enable government to:

Achieve strategic goals;
Improve productivity;
Provide responsive customer service;
Hire and retain talented employees;
Develop innovative solutions; and
Boost attendance.

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Grants Course

Grants Management Performance Improvement (Intermediate Topics)

February 08 - 10, 2022

David Rykken

virtual icon Virtual

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

virtual icon Virtual

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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Photo Gallery

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.