Equity: A Key Factor in Audits That Matter
Group Internet Based Style Delivery Training
January 30, 2025, 2:00–3:00pm EST
DEMONSTRATION: NO CPE CREDITS
Understanding equity is essential for conducting audits that drive meaningful change. Regardless of the amount of performance auditing experience you have as an auditor within your organization, looking carefully at how others in the profession have grappled with the fundamental issue of equity will make you a better auditor. In this Group Internet Based Style Delivery training, you will explore how to integrate equity considerations into the auditing process, enhancing both its relevance and impact.
The course emphasizes:
- Why equity is critical to modern audits and decision-making.
- Practical strategies for embedding equity into your audit framework.
- Techniques for identifying and addressing inequities in data and processes.
- Tools for communicating audit findings with an equity-focused lens.
- Insights into the broader implications of equity in organizational performance.
*No advance preparation is needed, but knowledge of Excel is recommended.
Instructor: Mark Funkhouser, Founder, International Center for Performance Auditing (ICPA)
Program Level: Basic
Pre-Requisites: Bachelor’s degree (BA), one year of experience, and basic knowledge of government
Delivery: Group Internet Based Style Delivery
Field of Study: 40 credits of Governmental Auditing and 40 credits of Auditing
Cost and Registration
Program Fee: $0 (free demonstration lecture)
Registration Deadline: January 28 2025
Register through the link provided below. For more details about the training, please visit CSLF’s Executive Education page or our website at cslf.gsu.edu. For registration assistance, please contact our offices at 404-413-0284.
Note: We post all upcoming training details on our social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and Facebook) along with training information and registration links. We also send promotional materials through a private distribution list of public finance officials through Mailchimp. Interested CPAs can also contact us on the numbers provided on the website and CSLF Executive Education page.
Credits
This is a demonstration lecture, and no credits will be awarded to participants.
*Center for State and Local Finance, CSLF, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, GSU is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org.
Administrative Policies
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The registration link below also details our refund and cancellation policy.
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About Mark Funkhouser
Mark Funkhouser, PhD, is a municipal finance and government performance expert who has spent decades in public service.
As the mayor of Kansas City during the Great Recession, Mark made the tough choices to put his city on the path to fiscal sustainability and focused on “smart with the money” policy approaches to make the city work for regular people. As the publisher of Governing magazine, Mark continued his commitment to good government through promoting innovation and peer learning across state and local jurisdictions.
In 2019, he founded Funkhouser & Associates, a consulting firm that supports the work of local governments and their partners through engagement, strategic planning, capacity development and fiscal analysis.
Mark is the founder of the International Center for Performance Auditing (ICPA) and a founding member of the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA). He previously spent 18 years with the Office of the City Auditor of Kansas City and 10 years with the Tennessee Division of State Audit. He has dedicated his career, research and writing to advancing the public sector performance auditing profession and strengthening its real-world impact.
Mark holds a master’s degree in social work from West Virginia University, an M.B.A. from Tennessee State University, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in public administration and urban sociology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.