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Tag Archives: school district
What is a Compensation Study and Why Should Your District Want One?
With the changing labor environment, there are more and more discussions about pay, benefits, and other key factors in attracting quality employees. How do you know if your pay is competitive? Searching labor statistic websites and talking to your neighbor … read more
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Tagged Arizona, compensation study, consulting, HR, Melanie Askew, payroll, salary study, school district
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Data Analytics in Auditing and Consulting – Part II
Part I of this article discussed HeinfeldMeech’s use of IDEA and IDEA Script to perform data analytics. Along with IDEA, the firm has recently been exploring the use of Python programming to enhance our data analytics procedures. Python is an … read more
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Tagged auditing, consulting, CPA firm, data analysis, data analytics, data mining, financial report, machine learning, Python, school district, text mining
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School District Physical Inventory Process
Do you know the last time your district completed a full physical inventory over all assets? Did you know that federal rules require an inventory of equipment to be completed every two years and that state rules require the physical … read more
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Tagged Alex Cooksey, Arizona, audit, capital assets, consulting, internal control, inventory, physical inventory, school district
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Effective Communication in a Remote Environment
In a world that is striving to return to more “normal” personal and professional environments, there are opportunities to reflect and improve on adaptations that were born out of necessity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While there were disruptions in … read more
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Tagged Arizona, audit, communication, government, Nathan Cook, nonprofit, NPO, remote work, school district, team, technology, telecommuting
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Capital Assets under the Capitalization Threshold
The common understanding under Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 34 was that capital items under the capitalization threshold, typically $5,000, were not capitalized and that like items (laptops, furniture) would not be added together to create one asset. However, … read more
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Tagged Arizona, capital assets, capitalization, financial report, GASB, government, inventory, Michael Lauzon, school district, value
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Ransomware and the Increase of Cybersecurity Threats
Over the past year, you may have heard about high profile cyber-attacks around the country. The year 2020 set many records on the number of cyber-attacks and with all likelihood, it does not appear to be slowing down in 2021. … read more
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Tagged cybersecurity, government, information technology, internal controls, IT, nonprofit, Patrick Copeland, ransomware, school district
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GASB 42 Revisited
As accountants, auditors and consultants, we find ourselves living in a world that seems to change faster than we might be comfortable with. Normally, we focus on the changes that are on the horizon so that we may educate ourselves … read more
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Tagged Arizona, asset impairment, capital assets, CPA firm, financial statement, GASB, government, Jennifer Shields, school district
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