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Conference Meeting
Materials
For
Pacific Northwest
Intergovernmental Audit Forum
Spring 2008 Conference
March 19-21, 2008
Holiday Inn Downtown/Convention Center
Portland, Oregon |
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Participant Materials |
Speaker
Presentations |
Executive Committee Members
Pacific Northwest
Intergovernmental Audit Forum
Agenda
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Combating Fraud and Abuse in the Federal Medicaid
Program: An Update on the Medicaid Integrity Group
Steven Gatzemeier
Deputy Director (West), Division of Field Operation,
Medicaid Integrity Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
San Francisco, CA
Federal Efforts to Reduce Aviation and Congestion
and Delay
Paul Aussendorf, Assistant Director
Physical Infrastructure Team
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Seattle, WA
Maria Wallace, Analyst
Physical Infrastructure Team
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Seattle, WA
Technical Sessions - Noteworthy Audits from Around
the Region
Tax Preference Performance Reviews
Ruta Fanning, Legislative Auditor, Joint Legislative
Audit and Review Committee, State of Washington, Olympia, WA
Federal Loan Program Audits: Developing
Audit Scope and Identifying Unique Risks
Terry Storms, Auditor, Office of Inspector General,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Seattle, WA
Auditing Indigent Public Defense Services
Virginia Garcia, Assistant City Auditor, Office of the
Seattle City Auditor, Seattle, WA
Multnomah County: Auditing Tax Abatement
Programs
Mark Ulanowicz, Principal Auditor, Multnomah County,
Portland, OR
Thursday, March 20, 2008
SCOREŠ Some ICEŠ
- Forensic Accounting in the Public Sector
Darrell D. Dorrell,
CPA/ABV, CVA, ASA, CMA, DABFA,
Principal, Financial Forensics, Lake Oswego, OR
A Methodology Update on Focus Groups, Expert Panels
and Other Small Group Methods
Luann Moy, Assistant Director, Applied Research and
Methods, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C.
Accountable Government: How Portland's
Ombudsman, Independent Police Review and Audit Service Division's Work
Together
Gary Blackmer, City Auditor, Portland, OR
Ken Gavette, Principal Management Auditor, Audit
Services Division, Office of the City Auditor, Portland, OR
Kari Guy, Management Auditor, Audit Services Division,
Office of the City Auditor, Portland, OR
Drummond Kahn, Director, Audit Services Division, Office
of the City Auditor, Portland, OR
Michael Mills, Ombudsman, Office of the City
Auditor, Portland, OR
Leslie Stevens, Director, Independent Police Review
Division, Office of the City Auditor, Portland, OR
The Washington State Auditor's Office Report on the
Port of Seattle
David L. Cotton, CPA, CFE, CGFM
Managing Partner, Cotton & Company LLP
Alexandria, VA
Patti M. Jones, PMP, PSP
President, CDR Consultants
Carlsbad, CA
Linda Long, CPA, CGAP, and CGFM, Director of Performance
Audit, Washington State Auditors Office, Olympia, WA
Auditing Wireless Networks
Neal Weatherspoon, IT Audit Manager, Oregon State
Auditors Office, Salem, OR
Friday, March 21, 2008
Managing the Report-Writing Process in Your
Organization: Tips from the Writer-Editor's Perspective
Richard Mills, Writer-Editor of Inspector
General, Office of Audit Services, U.S. Health and Human Services, Region
IX, San Francisco, CA
Anatomy of a Fraud
David L. Cotton, CPA, CFE, CGFM
Managing Partner, Cotton & Company LLP
Alexandria, VA |
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