For businesses to thrive in the Covid-19 era, they need one thing: capital. For women and minority-owned businesses, access to that essential piece comes with unique challenges. Join the Baltimore Business Journal, Washington Business Journal and Sandy Spring Bank for a virtual discussion of the strategies women and minority-owned businesses can use to build their future success. We’ll hear from area funders, banking executives and busin...

Focused on where and how to approach work, post-pandemic? Along with the many challenges is the potential to use this disruption as a chance to transform. In this special webinar, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) Research Scientists Kristine Dery and Stephanie Woerner will share the latest research on how companies with a future-ready workforce are outperforming the competition. You’ll learn the five stages of future-re...

This PCAOB Auditing Standard 2105: Consideration of Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit establishes requirements regarding the auditor's consideration of materiality in planning and performing an audit. In interpreting the federal securities laws, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that a fact is material if there is "a substantial likelihood that the . . . fact would have been viewed by the reasonable investor as having significantly...

This training event covers the two different subsections of the PCAOB Auditing Standard 1300. PCAOB Auditing Standard 1301: Communications with Audit Committees requires the auditor to communicate with the company's audit committee regarding certain matters related to the conduct of an audit and to obtain certain information from the audit committee relevant to the audit. PCAOB Auditing Standard 1305: Communications About Control Deficiencies...

Changing an organization’s culture can be tedious and iterative, and that can make it seem hard. Culture change requires more planning, intention and relentless focus than leaders believe they can provide. But if the organization needs to work in a different way, CIOs must commit to making that investment. This complimentary webinar provides a structured methodology for making culture change happen. Discussion Topics: Discover the 5 step...

A majority of CEOs and business executives anticipate that some sort of economic boom lies ahead. They expect their chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) to ensure supply chains are optimized, resilient, and ready to enable business growth, according to the annual Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey. More than two-thirds of CEOs plan to use the current disruption as an opportunity to focus on redesigning the business. Meanwhile 80%...

The 2021 Women of Color STEM Digital Conference will be held October 7-9, 2021. With the Women of Color Digital Twin Experience, you are able to bring the same great experience to wherever you are. The conference offers both valuable career networking opportunities and hosts prestigious award ceremonies, which have earned widespread praise. Attendees are uniquely positioned to interact with the STEM community at all career stages. This affords...

Join us for a virtual retirement benefits webinar for Federal Government Employees. From a local “federal benefits guru,” Ed Zurndorfer- you will be learning about the mechanics and intricacies of the Federal Government’s benefits package for its employees. Most attendees say they wished they had come decades earlier, but it’s never too late to learn about the benefits that will support you in your retirement. The Virtu...

Due to the rise in COVID-19 Delta variant cases, hospitalizations and deaths, and increased travel bans from federal, state, and local government entities and from housing authorities and redevelopment officials, we are compelled to replace our in-person 2021 NAHRO National Conference and Exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona October 7-9 with an all-virtual conference on October 7-8. The NAHRO Online National Conference & Exhibition will take pla...

Join us for a virtual retirement benefits webinar for Federal Government Employees. From a local “federal benefits guru,” Ed Zurndorfer- you will be learning about the mechanics and intricacies of the Federal Government’s benefits package for its employees. Most attendees say they wished they had come decades earlier, but it’s never too late to learn about the benefits that will support you in your retirement. The Virtu...