Accounting and Financial Reporting
Evaluating Internal Controls
In-Person Training
September 17, 2024
GFOA Training Center203 N LaSalle St, Suite 2700
Chicago, Illinois
- Field of Study: Accounting (Governmental)
- Credits: 8
- Prerequisite: None
- Status: This event has availability.
Details:
Participants will examine, from a state and local government perspective, each of the essential components of a comprehensive framework of internal control, along with the accompanying principles and points of focus identified in the Council of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) most recent version of Internal Control - Integrated Framework. The public-sector manager’s role in fraud prevention and detection also will be discussed. This course combines lecture, discussion, and exercises.
Who Will Benefit: CFO/Finance Director, Controller, Accountant, Treasurer, Auditor, Purchasing Manager
Learning Objectives:
- Those who successfully complete this seminar should be able to:
- Define internal control and explain how it relates to basic managerial objectives;
- Identify the respective responsibilities of management, the governing body, external auditors, and internal auditors in regard to internal control;
- Identify the five essential components of a comprehensive framework of internal control;
- Identify the seventeen principles associated with those five essential components;
- Identify the key points of focus related to each principle;
- Describe the inherent limitations of internal control;
- Describe the relationship between internal control and enterprise risk management;
- Describe the relationship between internal control and fraud; and
- Describe how fraud can be identified and how identified fraud should be managed.
- Member Price: $445.00
- Non-member Price: $665.00