• Practical implication of GASB pronouncements from both the auditor and actuary points of view
• GASB 75 - OPEB Implementation and Best Practices
• GASB 84 - Fiduciary Activities Standard
• GASB 87 - Leases Standard

• What auditors should be communicating to elected officials when issues impact credit worthiness and funding
• The responsibility of independent auditors when communicating audit results in a politically-charged environment
• Going concern issues related to governments when political decisions impact financial condition
• Your responsibility as an independent auditor in understanding how the political environment impacts audit planning and procedures

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• Straight from the Source: An update from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Federal Programs
• Tips on transitioning to Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
• Top ten monitoring findings so you can avoid them
• Challenges in Uniform Guidance implementations

• Municipal bond and other key provisions in the new law
• Effects of the key provisions in the new tax reform on Pennsylvania school district financing
• Pennsylvania school district financing overview

• Common pitfalls and practical issues in creating financial statement disclosures
• How to incorporate new disclosures
• The effect of recent GASB pronouncements on disclosures

• An inside look at the most common deficiencies found by auditors
• Ways to improve audit efficiency
• Peer review deficiencies
• Data Collection Form considerations

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• Identify and use innovative data analytic techniques to get more value from your district’s data
• Hide and seek: How to use data analytics to detect fraud by uncovering hidden patterns, correlations, and other insights
• Use fuzzy matching techniques to correlate data without exact matches
• Use of new data analytic tools such as word clouds to go beyond the numbers
• Live demonstration: How to use different web-based programs