State Auditor Training Program

This year’s training agenda will include a variety of topics of relevance to your professional endeavors:

Featured Topics

• Focused discussions on reporting issues from the DOAA Local Government Desk Review Team
• Georgia Environmental Finance Authority: GEFA Funding – Finance 101
• Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Research Reporting Requirements
• DOAA – 100% Equalized Adjusted Property Tax Digest (also known as the Sales Ratio Study)
• Georgia Geospatial Information Office – Visualization technologies are indispensable in government services
• By leveraging geospatial tools this will enhance accountability, planning, decision-making, economic development, citizen services, and public safety
• GASB, AICPA and GAO updates
• Updates of Audit Standards, Single Audit, and AICPA Quality Management Standards
• General Governmental Accounting and Auditing topics

2024 Governmental Accounting & Reporting Issues Seminar features:

In-Person Sessions (Group Live Delivery Method)
$259 – for in-person session on October 16 & 17 in Tifton, GA. Includes printed CPE certificate and electronic training materials. Expect these details three business days before the training date.

Virtual Sessions (Group Internet-Based Delivery Method)
$239 – for virtual sessions on November 6 & 7 and November 12 & 13. Includes printed CPE certificate and electronic training materials. You’ll receive a log-in link and essential electronic training materials. Expect these details three business days before the training date.

The roster of presenters comprises esteemed organizations such as Department of Audits & Accounts, Department of Community Affairs, Georgia Environmental Finance Authority, Georgia Geospatial Information Office, and Crawford & Associates.

FRANK CRAWFORD is President of Crawford & Associates, P.C., Certified Public Accountants, an accounting firm located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The firm specializes in providing auditing, consulting and accounting services solely to governmental entities and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center. Over the last 37 years, Frank, as President of Crawford & Associates, has provided a variety of audit and accounting services to all sizes and types of governmental entities, including financial statement audits and attestation services, non-attestation services such as financial statement preparation services, general accounting and advisory services, fraud investigations, internal control analysis, accounting policy and procedure development, outsourced internal auditing and internal monitoring, the development of management anti-fraud programs and controls, quality assurance reviews, training, and expert witness services.

CHRIS PEMBROOK, MBA, CGAP, CPA, CRFAC is a Partner/Shareholder at Crawford & Associates, P.C., in Oklahoma City. The accounting firm is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and specializes in providing auditing, consulting, and accounting services solely to governmental entities. Prior to joining the firm, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Oklahoma Police Pension & Retirement System and the Deputy Director of the Local Government & Special Services Division of the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector’s Office. He is currently serving as a committee member of the OSCPA Government Accounting & Auditing Committee and the AICPA Government Expert Panel, and also was selected to serve on the joint COSO-ACFE-AICPA Task Force for the development of the group’s Fraud Risk Management Guide. Chris was selected as a 2016 Oklahoma Society Trailblazer, a designation by the OSCPA recognizing young CPAs that are helping the CPA profession blaze new and exciting trails for the future. Chris was also selected by the AICPA to participate in their Task Force for the development of the new Advanced Single Audit Certificate Program and was awarded the AICPA digital badge representing his status as an advanced single auditor.

Georgia Department of Audits & Accounts is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.