ICPA Events

 

Conferences and symposia focused on current issues and problems facing the international government auditing community

Our Past Events

Founding Conference

Mar 30, 2009 through Mar 31, 2009 at the Baker University's Overland Park Campus, 7301 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS USA 66210
8:00 AM till 4:00 PM

Description

Our goal is to establish the International Center for Performance Auditing by having leaders in the performance audit community around the world provide input on various components of the current state of Performance Auditing and the role of ICPA.

 

SCHEDULE

 

Mar. 29, Sunday

• Registration: 6:00 pm, Marriott Hotel
• Reception & Dinner: 6:00 pm Marriot Hotel

- Message from sponsor (EAM, Inc. / Mosley & Associates)

- Dinner Speech (Professor Abas Syed, UK) 

Importance of Performance Auditing from wider, longer-term and cultural perspective

 

Mar. 30, Monday

• Registration: 8:00-8:20 am, Baker Univ. room 207
• Welcoming Remarks: 8:20-8:30 am, room 207, Dr. Mark Funkhouser
• Video Speech: 8:30-8:40 am, room 207, David Walker, former Comptroller General of USA, President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation

The state of performance auditing globally and the need for strong auditing instructions to promote accountability and effective democratic governance

• Keynote Address: 8:40-9:10 am, room 207

The state of performance auditing globally and the need for strong auditing institutions to promote accountability and effective democratic governance. (Colleen Waring, USA, CIA, CGAP, CGFM)

• Networking Break: 9:10-9:30 am
• Small Group Discussion I: 9:30-11:00 am, romm 201-205

Challenges Facing Performance Audit Community

• Presentation by Each Group: 11:00-12:00 am, room 207
• Lunch: 12:00-1:10 pm, room 207

Luncheon speech: the value of performance audits in helping governments be more efficient and effective (Jonathan Walters, USA)

• Small Group Discussion II: 1:10-2:30 pm, room 201-205

The Role of ICPA in the Larger Audit Community

• Networking Break: 2:30-2:50 pm
• Presentation by Each Group: 2:50-4:00 pm, room 207
• Reception & Dinner: 6:00-8:30 pm, Marriott Hotel

- Message from sponsor(The Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation)

- Dinner Speech (Chen Taihui, Chinese National Audit Office) 

State of Performance Auditing in China

 

Mar. 31, Tuesday 

• Summary of Discussion on Mar.30: 8:00-8:10 am, room 207, ICPA
• Video Speech: 8:10-8:20 am, room 207, Dr. Ahmed El Midaoui, INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee Chairman, First President of the Court of Accounts, Kingdom of Morocco

The state of performance auditing globally and the need for strong auditing institutions to promote accountability and effective democratic governance

•  Welcoming Address: 8:20-8:45 am, room 207

 Partnership between scientific community and audit community toward effective democratic governance (Dr. Long, President of Baker University 

• Keynote Address: 8:45-9:15 am, room 207, Dr. Peter Van der Knapp, The Netherlands Court of Audit

 What challenges do performance audit organizations face and how could an organization like the ICPA help performance audit organizations address those challenges?

• Networking Break: 9:15-9:30 am
• Small Group Discussion III: 9:30-11:00 am, room 201-205

The Main Functions of ICPA

• Presentation by Each Group: 11:00-12:00 am, room 207
• Lunch: 12:00-1:00 pm, room 207

Luncheon speech

• Small group discussion IV: 1:00-2:20 pm, room 201-205 

Strategies for Staffing, Financing, Marketing, and Organizational Model

• Networking Break: 2:20-2:40 pm
• Presentation by Each Group: 2:40-4:00 pm, room 207
• Closing Remarks: 4:00-4:10 pm, room 207, ICPA
  
  

 

INFORMATION ON THE SPEAKERS

 

 David M. Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, his tenure as the federal government's chief auditor spanned both Democratic and Republican administrations. While at the GAO, Walker embarked on a Fiscal Wake-up Tour, partnering with the Brookings Institution, the World Future Society, and the Heritage Foundation to alert Americans to wasteful government spending. Walker left the GAO to head the Peterson Foundation on March 12, 2008.

  

 

Colleen Waring recently retired from her position of Deputy City Auditor of the City of Austin, Texas, and has put her energy into providing consulting and training for government audit functions around the world. Before retiring, she worked for 23 years conducting performance audits of government activities at the state and local levels in Texas and Oklahoma.

 

She currently serves as a member of the Board of Regents of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and heads the IIA's Steering Committee for the Certified Government Audit Professional designation. She is also President of the Advisory Council to the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Academy for Government Accountability. She previously served one year as a board member of the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA) and chaired ALGA's Professional Issues Committee.

 

Colleen has written or co-authored a number of research papers on the audit uses of evaluation and operations research methodologies. When she's not making contributions to the profession of government auditing, Colleen is almost always working at her farm in Texas, trying to control the brush!

 

Jonathan Walters is a Govering staff writer for past 20 years, specializing in issues related to performance measurement and management and author of Measuring Up 2.0; Governing's new Improved Guide to Performance Measurement for Geniuses and Other Public Managers.

 

 

 

  

Dr. Ahmed El Midaoui is the First President of the Court of Accounts of the Kingdon of Morocco. Since 2005, Mr. El Midaoui is Chairman of the INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee. He is also President of the Association of supreme audit institutions that have French as a common language (AISCCUF) and member of the governing board of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI). He holds senior positions at the regional organizations of supreme audit institutions (ARABOSAI and AFROSAI). He is a member of the Task Force in charge of the co-ordination between INTOSAI and the International Development Organizations (World Bank, IMF, OECD…) In 2008, he received the title of honorary professor of the prestigious Nanjing Audit University in China. He has started his professional career at the Department of Finance. He assumed high level positions including Advisor of His Majesty the King, Minister of Interior, Director of National Security and Governor. He was a university professor of public finance, fiscal law, financial economics and management of State-owned enterprises. He is the author of many books, notably « State-owned enterprises and their participation in development in Morocco ». He was consultant to many international organizations in the fields of privatization, public finances and state-owned enterprises. 

 

  

Dr. Patricia Long is the President of Baker University. Prior to this she was various administrative positions at University Missouri-Kansas City and Johnson Community College.

 

Education

B.A., Mathematics, Southwest Baptist University, 1973

M.S.E., Adult Education, Central Missouri State University, 1978 Ed.D, Educational Policy and Leadership in Higher Education, University of Kansas, 1993

  

 

Dr. Peter Van Der Knaap is Performance Audit Director with the Netherlands Court of Audit in The Hague. Prior to this he was Head of Policy Evaluation at the Ministry of Finance, The Hague. Before that he was a researcher at the Erasmus Univeristy. Van der Knaap graduated in Public Administration from Erasmus University of Rotterdam (1990) and earned his PhD at the same university in 1997. He publishes on policy evaluation, outcome budgeting and policy-oriented learning.

 

The Netherlands Court of Audit is a High Council of State, along with the Upper and Lower Houses, the Council of State and the National Ombudsman. High Councils of State are central government bodies created in order to ensure that the democratic system works properly. The Netherlands Court of Audit aims to audit and improve the regularity, efficiency, effectiveness and integrity with which the State and associated bodies operate. It also audits compliance with the Netherlands obligations under international agreements. The Court is independent of the government and Parliament, deciding for itself what to audit, how to do so, and what to publish.

 

Professor Abbas Syed is currently an Emeritus Professor of Birmingham City University, UK and is on the boards of three UK organisations.

 

He was Head of Audit, Management and Consultancy Department, Director of Centre for International Audit and Director of PhD research of his department, at Birmingham City University for around two decades. During this time he held a number of consultancies and/or directorships, including those of two chartered accountancy companies and UK's Ministry of Defence. Before his academic career he was a senior civil servant in the UK government for several years.

 

He was educated at four universities, including Oxford University and London University and has graduate and postgraduate qualifications in Economics, Audit and Management. He has done extensive research and written extensively in these subject areas.

 

 

 

Contact: Jennifer Harmon
The Main Event
816-795-6616
eventplanz@sbcglobal.net

TRAVEL INFORMATION

 

Attendees fly into Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

HOTEL INFORMATION:

 

Hotel Reservation Deadline 3/8/09

Marriott Overland Park--$115/night
10800 Metcalf Avenue
Overland Park, KS 66210 (0.3 mile)
Call 800-228-9290 or 913-451-8000
Mention The Main Event or Reference Number 1-VD1TUZ

LaQuinta Inn and Suites--$69/night
10601 Marty
Overland Park, KS 66212 (0.6 mile)
Call 866-527-1498
Mention The Main Event or Reference Number 6116GRAHIC