Government and Not-for-Profit Seminars

  The courses currently on this page qualify to fulfill GAO
Yellow Book requirements.

Advanced Accounting and Auditing Problems for NPOs

You Will Learn: Effective solutions for challenges facing exempt organizations’ management and auditors. Explore innovative GAAP alternatives and audit procedures you can design to ensure reporting compliance. Address areas where viable accounting and reporting alternatives or difficult to interpret financial transactions exist through case studies.
Cranberry – June 16
Malvern – June 17

Analytical Procedures for Nonprofit Organizations

You Will Learn: How to measure the strength and efficiency of a not-for-profit organization. Use analytical procedures in planning the nature, timing, and extent of auditing procedures; design value-added consulting services. Develop quantitative and qualitative performance measures.
Hershey – July 31 Offered during the Education Summit
Trevose – Nov. 11

Applying A-133 to Nonprofit and Governmental Organizations

You Will Learn: The best ways to apply the audit amendments in the latest version of OMB Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments and Nonprofit Organizations; discover their relationship to GAAS, Government Auditing Standards, and the Single Audit Act Amendments.
Cranberry – July 23
Philadelphia – Sept. 26

Audits of HUD-Assisted Project

You Will Learn: Relevant information and updates regarding audits of HUD organizations, programs, policies, and procedures.
Malvern – June 26
Cranberry – June 27

Form 990: AICPA’s Answer to Unlocking the Tax Complexities

You Will Learn: To deal with the Form 990 problems your clients will confront. Learn to perform numerical computations and answer probing IRS questions. Practice completing the 990 tax form and solving unique filing problems.
Mars – July 10
Harrisburg – July 11
Malvern – Oct. 23

Fraud and the Financial Statement Audit: Auditor Responsibilities

You Will Learn: A risk assessment approach to detect fraud in a financial statement audit. Understand the characteristics of fraud and the auditor’s responsibility for detecting it. Identify communications that must be made with the audit team and client personnel, and documentation required to evidence your consideration of fraud.
Erie – July 24
Harrisburg – Nov. 12

Fraud in the Governmental and Not-for-Profit Environments

You Will Learn: The auditor’s responsibility to detect fraud under SAS No. 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit. Recognize conditions that can lead to fraud before it occurs.
Hershey – July 29 Offered during the Education Summit
Trevose – Oct. 13
Mars – Oct. 17

Governmental & Nonprofit Annual Update

You Will Learn: The latest developments in accounting, financial reporting, and auditing requirements for governmental and not-for-profit entities, and how to apply them. Find out how to comply with single audit and related compliance standards.
Erie – July 25
Mars – Nov. 13
Malvern – Dec. 3
Harrisburg – Dec. 18

Managing Nonprofit Organizations Like a Business

You Will Learn: How to adapt proven for-profit management techniques to not-for-profit organizations. Identify unique accounting rules applicable to not-for-profit organizations, and effective tools to communicate financial results for efficiency and financial stability.
Hershey – July 30 Offered during the Education Summit
Philadelphia – Sept. 24

Not-for-Profit Accounting & Reporting: From Start to Finish

You Will Learn: The critical elements and nuances that make up not-for-profit accounting and reporting. Gain skills to confidently work in the not-for-profit environment.
Trevose – July 21
Mars – Nov. 14

Recent Developments in Compliance Auditing: Nonprofit Organizations and Governmental Units

You Will Learn: Current federal and state regulations, and other pronouncements in governmental and not-for-profit accounting and auditing.
Malvern – June 10
Harrisburg – June 11
Altoona – June 12
Cranberry – June 18
Erie – June 19

Studies on Single Audit and Yellow Book Deficiencies

You Will Learn: How to avoid common problems found in Yellow Book and A-133 engagements. Learn from the mistakes of others and utilize common sense solutions.
Hershey – Aug. 1 Offered during the Education Summit
Cranberry – Oct. 22
Malvern – Nov. 19

Workpaper Techniques for Government and Nonprofit Organizations

You Will Learn: Strategies to avoid common workpaper preparation problems. Learn to plan the audit engagement and gain an understanding of auditing assets, liabilities, net assets, revenue, and expenses.
Hershey – July 28 Offered during the Education Summit
Mars – Oct. 23
Philadelphia – Nov. 20