Governmental Accounting 101
2.00 Credits
Member Price $79
Non-Member Price $109
Overview
Governmental Accounting 101, is a 2 hour webcast that takes the participant of a whirlwind tour of governmental accounting basics, focusing on wetting the participant’s appetite for more. This session will be the first of a series of webcasts, with each subsequent webcast delving deeper and deeper into the governmental accounting basics.
Highlights
- Fund Types
- Budgetary Accounting
- Financial Reporting Requirements
- Single Audit Act
- Audit Standards and Procedures
- Best Practices in Governmental Accounting
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Industry and Public Accountants
Objectives
- Participants will acquire a solid understanding of the unique characteristics, concepts, and terminology associated with governmental accounting.
- Understand the fundamentals of governmental financial statements.
- Understand compliance requirements specific to governmental entities, including the Single Audit Act, and gain insights into the auditing standards, procedures, and best practices applicable to governmental accounting.
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Christopher Pembrook, Shareholder, Crawford & Associates, PC
Chris Pembrook, CPA, MBA, CGAP, Cr.FA, is a shareholder at Crawford & Associates, CPAs, P.C., an accounting firm specializing in providing auditing, consulting and accounting services solely to governmental entities. He is currently serving as a member of the AICPA State and Local Government Expert Panel and the OSCPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee. Pembrook was selected to serve on the joint COSO-ACFE-AICPA Task Force for the development of the group’s Fraud Risk Management Guide. He also served on the AICPA task force that helped establish the AICPA’s new single audit advanced expert certification program.
Frank Crawford III, President, Crawford & Associates, PC
Frank Crawford, CPA, is president of Crawford & Associates, CPAs, P.C., an accounting firm in Oklahoma City. The firm specializes in providing auditing, consulting and accounting services solely to governmental entities and is a member of the AICPA and the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center. Over the last 36 years, Crawford & Associates has provided a variety of audit and accounting services to all sizes of government including many types of financial statement audits and attestation services, fraud investigations, internal control analysis, accounting policy and procedure development, outsourced internal auditing and internal monitoring, developing management anti-fraud programs and controls, quality assurance reviews, training and expert witness services. Crawford served as chairman of the AICPA Government Expert Panel from 2004-2008. He has been involved in a number of other AICPA committees and task force groups, U.S. Federal Government Agencies, various local and national CPA firms and a number of state societies.
Non-Member Price $109
Member Price $79