Governmental Accounting, Financial Reporting and Budgeting

Course Description

This course designed for those looking for an understanding of governmental accounting, financial reporting, and budgeting, and their differences from private-sector financial activities. Learn about the unique aspects of accounting and reporting for the federal government as well as state and local governments.

What Do Participants Learn?

• Understand governmental accounting standards, financial reporting practices, and budgeting approaches
• Apply the standards, practices, and approaches by the federal, state, and local governments
• Understand financial statements issued by federal, state, and local governments
• Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applicable to state and local government
• Fund accounting to record, control and report financial resources
• Budget accounting controls and budget reporting requirements
• Debt and general fixed asset accounting and reporting
• Pending issues that may change state and local government accounting

Who Should Attend?

•  Financial Management professionals

What Will the Learning Experience Include?

Phase: 1

Introduce

• Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
• Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
• Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.

• During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
• Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
• Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
• **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.

Phase: 2

Explore & Practice

Phase: 3

Apply

• Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
• To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
• Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
• Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)

• Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
• Participant's Evaluation
• Trainer's Evaluation

Phase: 4

EVALUATE