"The difficult people we encounter can be our greatest teachers." -- Eileen Anglin Difficult people are found in every walk of life. They come in many forms. Learning how to recognize what they are doing, and why that’s creating so much difficulty for you, and those around you, is the first step. From that recognition, you can create a plan for how to shift the impact they have on you and the environment. There are a host of specific too...

PivotTables can help you sort and sift through large data sets to focus quickly on just the data elements that matter most to your specific needs. In just one fast-paced and informative training session, you’ll learn how to use PivotTables to sort your data more efficiently, create multiple customized reports in a few easy steps and gain a powerful new tool to help you make better business decisions. In addition, you’ll get tips on...

Details: The scope of public sector external financial reporting often extends beyond the reporting government to encompass one or more additional legally-separate organizations. This seminar examines the scope of the public sector financial reporting entity. Who Will Benefit: Accounting and auditing professionals Learning Objectives: Understand the criteria used in establishing a primary government’s financial accountability for a poten...

While the focus of this webinar will be on understandability and usability criterion within the GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards program, an emphasis will be placed on improving on improving all areas of communication, presentation, and process within the budget. This sixty minute course combines lecture, panel discussion, examples, and polling questions. Who Will Benefit: CFO/Finance Director, Budget Manager, Budget Analy...

Baird's Government & Defense Conference is a unique, content rich, networking event. This full day event will be an in-person / virtual conference featuring panel discussions on a variety of highly relevant topics, as well as corporate presentations from a cross section of industry participants and market leaders. In addition, Baird industry bankers will present views from Wall Street, as well as M&A trends and observations on market v...

In this HR compliance webinar attendees will learn why Millennial and other employees stay or leave and learn practical techniques you can use to retain the best employees. Why Should You Attend The Millennial generation is a force to be reckoned with. They are talented, innovative, entrepreneurial, and creative. They are also highly mobile and prone to job hopping. Retaining top talent is a key business imperative and old strategies are no lo...

The last 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic have marked a period of increasing complexity and pressure for procurement, as internal and external stakeholder demand grows and market volatility increases. And while cost reduction and risk management remain a priority, it’s becoming increasingly clear that procurement must have sustainability and social impact embedded into their fundamental strategy in order to prepare for the future. In th...

There are few projects that local governments will take on that reach the size, scope, and complexity of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. Not only do ERP projects touch just about everything and everyone in the organization, they also can represent significant change for an organization. ERP projects are expensive requiring investments not only in dollars, but in time, creating the expectation that governments will see sig...

2020 has proven to be a difficult year for almost every industry. For marketing, it has forced professionals to think, in new outside-the-box ways that have never been applied to real life situations. Hear Federal IT Marketing experts discuss tools, procedures and changes they made to their marketing agendas in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. How has it forced them to deploy marketing tactics they never would have otherwise? How have they...

The public sector environment is fundamentally different from that in which private-sector organizations operate, thus different accounting and financial reporting practices have developed for governments. This two-hour internet training will provide a basic introduction to the conceptual and practical ways in which generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for governments differs from that used for private companies. It will familiarize...