Mary Beth Saenz has 10 years of audit experience, performing external audits (for a public accounting firm), internal audits (as a senior auditor for The University of Texas System Administration), and public/governmental audits (both as a senior auditor for the Texas State Auditor's Office and as a fiscal reviewer for a federal grant review team). As team leader for various financial, operational, performance, and IT audits, she developed and demonstrated both technical and leadership skills.

In Mary Beth's role as an instructor, she initially provided basic audit training and various internal training courses. She developed the general employee compliance content for the first web-based internal training offered by The University of Texas System Administration. She also created the agency performance measurement content for the first web-based external training offered by the Texas State Auditor's Office in cooperation with the Legislative Budget Board. She is currently the primary instructor for the Back to the Basics Auditing Series offered by EGAPP, Inc., as well as Effective Grants Management, Auditing Grants, portions of Essentials of Performance Auditing, and other courses. She also occasionally teaches a Technical Math course through Austin Community College.

Mary Beth has a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Tyler. She earned her designation as a CPA in 1998, and as a CIA in 2001.

Mr. Malan is a co-owner of EGAPP and an active trainer for the company. He is also the principle of Sandpiper Consulting, a business developed to assist government agencies in the areas of performance based management, performance auditing, investigative management and general management issues.

Mr. Malan recently retired from being Executive Director for the Association of Inspectors General, an organization dedicated assisting Inspectors General in being successful and growing the profession. He is also retired as Inspector General for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. His responsibilities there included independent performance audits and investigations of all properties and operations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Prior to his appointment to this position, he was Assistant Deputy Comptroller for the New York State Comptroller a position overseeing the conduct and reporting of performance audits of all state agencies and state public authorities. His early career included seventeen years in the King County (WA) Auditors Office culminating in appointment as King County Auditor. Responsibilities there included oversight of both performance and financial audits.

Mr. Malan has earned a Ph.D., and an MBA; is a Certified Inspector General, a Certified Government Financial Manager, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is affiliated with the Association of Inspectors General (AIG), the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA), the Intergovernmental Government Auditors Forum (NIAF), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). He will begin serving on the Association of Government Accounting's Ethics Board in 2007 and has formerly served on the Comptroller's Government Auditing Standards Advisory Board and currently serves on the GASB Service Efforts and Accomplishments Committee. While at the MTA, he was Chairman of the AIG Principles and Standards Committee and led the Committee in the development of a leading edge set of principles and standards for offices of inspector general. He has published numerous articles, had his work included in a Governmental Auditing Handbook which is revised each year for the profession, and has co authored a land mark text in performance auditing published by the Governmental Finance Officers Association.

Jeanne H. Yamamura, CPA, MIM, PhD, (licensed as a CPA in California and Nevada) is an associate professor at the University of Nevada Reno where she teaches courses in auditing and accounting information systems in the College of Business Administration. In addition to her work with the University, Ms. Yamamura presents workshops in governmental accounting and reporting and professional ethics, serves as a mentor for an online CPA review course, and has provided quality control review services for local CPA firms.

Ms. Yamamura brings to her classes and workshops more than twenty years of experience in public, private, and governmental accounting. She worked as an Audit Manager for Touche Ross & Co. in the N. Marianas and as a Senior Accountant for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in San Francisco, California. She provided internal audit services for county government and for an international financial services company. She has also worked in a variety of positions ranging from Assistant Controller to Vice President of Finance in the savings and loan industry. Ms. Yamamura is currently serving as Chairman of the Nevada Society of CPAs, the first academic to hold the position in the organization's 58-year history.

Ms. Yamamura received her Bachelor in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California and her Master of International Management from Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. Her Ph.D. in Business Administration - Accounting was received from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. She has written articles appearing in the Journal of Accountancy, the CPA Journal, and the Internal Auditor as well as numerous academic journals.