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- Why Segregation of Duties Matters in an IT Environment
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- Do Your Due Diligence!
- What Happens When Cash Isn’t Reconciled
- Adjacent Ways Projects: Capitalize or Expense?
- Excel Made Easy – VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP
- Physical Inventory Considerations
- I Submitted a December Budget Revision, Now What?
Tag Archives: Kristen Conway
Managing Grant Balances
Arizona school districts receive various federal and state grants each year. Almost all these grants operate on a cost reimbursement basis, meaning funds are expended by the district on allowable and budgeted costs, and then a reimbursement request is submitted … read more
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Kristen M. Conway, CPA
Areas of Expertise: Working with school districts, local governments, and non-profits School district audits Financial statement and compliance audits Review engagements Agreed-upon procedures Recipient of the Advanced Single Audit Certificate from the AICPA Recipient of the Not-for-Profit Certificate II from … read more
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SEFA 101
For organizations requiring a Single Audit, preparing the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) is the first and most crucial step in the process. Without an accurate SEFA, your audit firm will not be able to identify the appropriate … read more
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Tagged annual audit, federal programs, financial report, government, Kristen Conway, nonprofit, NPO, schedule of expenditures of federal awards, SEFA, Single Audit
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Year-End Close Out – How to Make It Easier
Closing out your organization’s accounting records each year can be an arduous process. That being said, it is critical to ensuring your organization’s financial reporting is accurate. Closing out the accounting records on a monthly basis and utilizing a checklist … read more
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Tagged accounting, Arizona, audit, financial records, internal controls, Kristen Conway, nonprofit, NPO, year-end
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Steps Your District Should Take Now to Comply with New Procurement Regulations
As school district officials know, laws and regulations are ever changing. Every new legislative session brings with it new requirements. Having a way to communicate these changes to your employees is critical to ensuring compliance with any new laws and … read more
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Tagged A.R.S., Arizona, compliance, Kristen Conway, procurement, purchasing, USFR
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Memory like a Steel Trap
It seems like every other day there is some new compliance requirement or accounting standard that has to be implemented. It seems likely you will not remember all of those changes unless of course you have a memory like a … read more
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Tagged brain, Kristen Conway, memory skills, soft skills, train your brain
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