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Governmental auditing

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Based on the AICPA Competency Framework: Governmental Auditing, these learning resources are designed to help CPAs understand the knowledge and skills necessary to perform high-quality Single Audits, Yellow Book audits, and audits of state and local government financial statements. Resources include the most up-to-date information on the Uniform Guidance and recent GASB statements including GASB Statement No. 68 and GASB Statement No. 72.

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4 steps to start a reverse mentoring program

This article discusses how organizations can motivate and engage newer employees, and build the knowledge of established ones, through reverse mentoring.

Article Coaching & mentoring Foundational

6 key traits of business leaders with global ambitions

This article discusses six key traits that business leaders need to embody to convert diversity into insights that drive financial performance:

Article Team building Intermediate

The business case for diversity and inclusion at CPA firms

This article discusses several reasons why diversity and inclusion make good business sense for CPA firms.

Article Team building Intermediate

A coaching approach to line management

The coaching techniques in this article can help fulfill employees need for feedback and develop staff.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

6 ways to write an email message that works

Writing an efficient work-related message is easier said than done. To ensure your emails work rather than waste time, this article offers some tips.

Article Communication Foundational

Walking the talk on quality control

This article discusses several ways you can ensure that quality control is central to firm operations.

Article Firm operations Intermediate

Ways to reduce the gender pay gap

This article provides some ideas that your organization can use to help close the wage gap between male and female accountants .

Article Team building Intermediate

How to listen like a pro

This article discusses the importance of active listening and includes an exercise to do with your team.

Article Communication Intermediate

5 principles of high-quality ethics and compliance programmes

This article shares five principles of high-quality ethics and compliance programmes.

Article Ethics, integrity & professionalism

Manager Survival Series: Managing conflict

This article provides some steps to take when your employees aren’t getting along:

Article Team building Intermediate

2016 GAQC Annual Update Webcast

This archived annual GAQC webcast is designed to help improve the quality of governmental audits by creating an awareness of matters that need to be considered by...

Webcast GASB accounting requirements Intermediate

The most common public-speaking mistakes—and how to avoid them

In this article, three experienced public speakers share common mistakes people make and identify ways to avoid them.

Article Communication Foundational