Don’t get bored this summer! The CTAS CCFO/CMFO Summer 2022 training yacht is set to sail and will carry you to a destination where you can find answers to your long simmering local governmental accounting and finance questions.
Be sure to register soon and join the CTAS crew for some relevant and practical guidance on a variety of topics such as How to Plan for an Effective Fiscal Year-End Closing, an in depth review of the TN Comptroller’s Office - Local Government Finance’s New Debt Manual, Subrecipient Monitoring Requirements for Federal Grant Awards, and the TCRS Hybrid Pension Plan and the Stabilization Reserve Trust (SRT) Investments.
These courses are free and provide continuing professional education (CPE) hours for CCFO, CMFO and Certified Public Accountants. There will be one virtual webcast via Zoom and a recorded version for each of the four courses.
CTAS Virtual CPE Dates and Course Descriptions – All Courses are Free!
A recorded version will also be offered.
June 9, 2022 • 9am-11am CT/10am-12pm ET
How to Plan for an Effective Fiscal Year-End Closing of Accounting Records
How can you plan for a more effective and less stressful annual fiscal year-end closing? Under Tennessee state law every local government is required to close their accounting records and be available for the external auditors within 60 days after FYE, or by August 31. This course provides some strategies, tips, techniques and illustrative examples for a more effective fiscal year-end closing. This course qualifies for 2.0 hours of CCFO, CMFO and certified public accountant continuing professional education credits. This course will qualify as COCTP recertification credit (not COCTP elective credit). CTAS presenters Rachel Ellington and Brandon Marks.
June 15, 2022 • 9am-11am CT/10am-12pm ET
TN Comptroller of the Treasury – Division of Local Government Finance New Debt Manual
County and city mayors, city managers, and finance/budget directors of local governments are responsible for complying with recently changed state statutes and regulations in the new Debt Manual issued by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office Division of Local Government Finance. This course will enable local government officials, and their staff, to better understand the legal types of debt issued, common audit findings, errors, omissions and the additional regulatory requirements required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for governments who issue or have outstanding debt that is publicly traded. This course qualifies for 2.0 CCFO, CMFO and certified public accountant hours of continuing professional education credits. This course will qualify as COCTP recertification credit (not COCTP elective credit). CTAS presenters John Sutton and Ben Rodgers.
June 23, 2022 • 1pm-2pm CT/2pm-4pm ET
Subrecipient Monitoring Requirements for Federal Grant Awards
County and city mayors, city managers, directors of schools, and others in local government management are responsible as a pass-through entity for monitoring subrecipients of federal grant awards. This course will enable local government officials, budget/finance directors, and their staff to better understand the audit and contractual requirements of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Uniform Guidance of a pass-through entity in awarding federal grant funds to subrecipients. This course qualifies for 2.0 CCFO, CMFO and certified public accountant hours of continuing professional education credits. This course will qualify as COCTP recertification credit (not COCTP elective credit). CTAS presenters Rachel Ellington and John Sutton.
July 28, 2022 • 9am-10:30am CT/10am-11:30am ET
TCRS Hybrid Pension Plan and the Stabilization Reserve Trust (SRT) Investments
All schools and certain counties and cities that have adopted the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) Hybrid Pension Plan are required to annually record their portion of their Stabilization Reserve Trust (SRT) investments in their accounting records and fund financial statements for FYE June 30th. This applies to all county and city boards of education and their general purpose school fund financial statements. This course will help you better understand the TCRS Hybrid Plan and identify how to obtain the SRT information, prepare the note disclosures and how to record the SRT investments in your accounting records. This course qualifies for 1.5 CCFO, CMFO and certified public accountant hours of continuing professional education credits. This course will qualify as COCTP recertification credit (not COCTP elective credit). CTAS presenters John Sutton and Kelley McNeal.
IMPORTANT: To receive full CPE credit participants must respond to all knowledge check Zoom polling questions throughout the entire virtual presentation. Participants attending live online courses are preferred to have a working camera and microphone and use a desktop, laptop, or tablet to participate in a session. Google Chrome is the recommended internet browser.
Registration closes the day before the training for administrative purposes. The Zoom link will be emailed to participants the day before the training.
If you register and complete the recorded version of these sessions, you will need to pass a test at the end of each course with a 70% or greater to receive CPE credit. You cannot claim CPE credit for both the virtual and recorded version of these courses.