The PCAOB has adopted a new standard, AS 2501, Auditing Accounting Estimates, Including Fair Value Measurements, and related amendments. This new standard replaces the Board's existing standards on auditing accounting estimates, fair value measurements, and derivative instruments. The PCAOB objective is to strengthen and enhance requirements for auditing estimates, including fair value measurements. This rulemaking is a companion to the rulema...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government’s information technology organizations have been on the front lines, charged with the technological challenges of migrating virtually 100% of the government’s workforce to their homes. Connectivity, collaboration, IT help desk support, security protocols, and even hardware availability are only a few of the immediate demands placed on the IT organization— most of whom were also wor...

Topic : 3-Hour Excel Automation Boot Camp: Top Ten Excel Functions, Lookup Functions (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, MATCH, INDEX), Basics of Excel Macros with an Introduction to VBA Overview: In this webinar, you will learn how to take your raw data, and create meaningful reports using the powerful tools in Microsoft Excel. As a business owner or manager, you have mounds and mounds of raw data transactions, and it is a monumental task to make any sense ou...

SECURITY and ENGINEERING personnel involved in designing entry control facilities, both vehicular or pedestrian, will attend this three-day course. Students will focus their attention on the features required for the effective, efficient and safe operation of access and entry control points at compounds and controlled area perimeters. Items discussed include; calculating lane queuing, guard shack and guard manning requirements, barrier resista...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 8/26/2020 Seminar Information NAFTA & USMCA updates. Learn whether your product should be shipped under the NAFTA Rules. Learn the rules to qualify and classify your goods under the NAFTA Agreement and review in detail the NAFTA Certificate of Origin Document. This seminar prepares a company for shipping into Mexico a...

First floated as an idea in 2010, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program was officially launched in 2012 as a government-wide program to secure cloud products and services. A recent audit by the General Accountability Office showed that more than 900 government cloud projects have been authorized by FedRAMP, but hundreds more continue to operate without authorizations, which presents a kaleidoscope of security challenges to the...

Bid protests have become a regular feature of government contracting. Experienced contractors know that understanding how bid protests work—both the process and the substantive issues—is essential to maximizing their competitive positions. This is true when deciding if, and when, to protest, and knowing how to participate in a protest to help protect a contract award. This webinar, taught by two government contract attorneys with p...

Images and videos have become a critical component of the workflow at many federal government agencies. Mining the information contained in this type of media has historically been challenging, time-consuming, and prone to errors.The state of the art has now advanced to the point that significant automation through advanced software tools can simplify much of this work. Computer vision and associated AI technologies can automatically index an...

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise 2020 SP1 (LRE), is a simplified project-based performance load testing solution to quickly identify abnormal application behavior and now fully support bursting performance testing load generators (LG) automatically into the AWS GovCloud regions. Join Micro Focus Solutions Architects in this live demonstration to see how your load and stress testing can be executed on load generators in your organization's dat...

In the last three months, government’s global workforce has moved from brick and mortar offices to remote work spaces at home. The use of collaboration tools has soared, and cybersecurity teams have stepped up to provide guidance on how to ensure proper information security and privacy controls for the remote federal workforce. This webinar will explore how government agencies are employing trusted internet connections and harnessing tec...