This session is designed to cause auditors and financial managers to be significantly aware of their ethical responsibilities and to see how fraud often ends up being the outcome of ethical lapses. Mr. Malan will provide a construct for an informal and hopefully spirited discussion.

Knowledge management has been a common buzz word for quite some time. This session will present the practical realities of the topic with an emphasis on how to capture, track, and retain your most valuable resource - the experience and expertise of your employees.

A brief highlight of the key elements of clear, concise, and coherent writing. Emphasis is placed on role of individual audit conclusions, findings, and summaries in laying the foundation for a solid draft audit report.

A one day course designed to introduce participants to the basic requirements of a financial statement audit. Coverage will include professional standards, planning, audit procedures and types of evidence, audit reports, internal control considerations, documentation, and wrap up procedures. This course will enable you to understand the basic principles behind and requirements for the annual financial statement audit.

Ever wonder if the folks you are auditing are being honest with you during the audit process? Because auditors are not trained as investigators, they often fail to see clear signs that point to audit evidence that could change the audit's outcome. This session provides auditors with helpful tips on data collections skills that will enhance the potential for a more revealing audit. Investigative auditing is based on the notion that not all auditees are forthright and open to all the inquiries made by the auditor and in that process leave clues as to any such deception. This session will cover some investigative techniques that will help you identify potential areas of deception, so that you may redirect some of your audit activities.

This course will highlight the key current issues in grants auditing. Effective analysis of performance data collection and performance measure target outputs and outcomes will also be a key element of the course. Less emphasis is placed on simple/standard compliance auditing than on key financial and performance elements in common grants.

This four hour session will provide some useful tools and techniques for enhancing communication within teams to help ensure greater effectiveness of team efforts. More than simple morale boosting, this session focuses on delegation, time and project management issues, and productive dispute resolution.

SAS 112, Communicating Internal Control Related Matters Identified in an Audit, was issued in May 2006 and became effective in 2007. The new SAS has generated a lot of questions, particularly with regard to the issue of material weaknesses. This � day course provides an overview of the SAS 112 requirements and how those requirements affect governmental audits.

The GAO is about to release the 2007 revision to Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book). Mr. Malan will highlight the changes in the standards and maintain open dialog with the session participants. Specific attention will be provided on the section of the Yellow Book that deals with performance auditing.

Emphasizing the importance of direct communication styles, this course will provide some practical techniques for developing, refining, and reviewing audit reports. While the course focuses more on content than on form, some exercises are provided regarding common mistakes in report writing in the areas of grammar, organization, and writing style.

Change is in the wind. There is a large push towards performance based management coming from some very authoritative groups. This session is designed to provide a complete discussion of the performance movement and along the way provide an understanding of the tools necessary to make it work. Mr. Malan will explain the need for, and the mechanisms that need to be in place to put such a system in place (including the audit function).

Here the topic turns to the skills program and financial managers need to understand when establishing and measuring program performance. Participants will get an understanding of how auditors go about auditing program performance and will engage in developing performance measures to meet their agency's needs.

Beginning with an overview of the roles and responsibilities of grantors and grantees, this course will provide an update on the current status of the Grants Streamlining initiative and current trends in federal grants reviews. Heavy emphasis is placed on the development of an effective grants monitoring system that is designed to address not only simple compliance monitoring, but also program performance.

This 2 � day course is a hands-on introduction to governmental accounting and reporting. Participants will gain a basic understanding of governmental accounting and reporting principles. The session will include a discussion of basic fund accounting concepts and financial reporting issues related to the insular governments. Attendees will leave the course with a more complete understanding of double-entry accounting, reconciliations, accounting terminology, and financial statements.