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Audits: What’s Hot (NCURA Webinar)

Do you ever wonder how a certain issue becomes what everyone is talking about? Why (insert newly important issue here) is suddenly the focus of new procedures and revised practices? If you find these questions vexing, you should tune in to the NCURA webinar on audits! Federal audit results often have a dramatic result on research administration workflow at Universities like ECU.

Audits: What’s Hot Webinar & After the Show Forum
April 29, 2021
Webinar 2-3:30 pm EDT
After the Show Forum: 3:35 – 4:30 pm EDT

ECU staff members can attend for free – e-mail cmsi@ecu.edu to get a link to set up your own individual login. You MUST set up your own login and watch the NCURA stream – ECU cannot rebroadcast the webinar in real-time (over Teams or any other platform).

The webinar WILL be recorded and made available for review about a week later along with the various handouts and slides.

Summary

This webinar that focuses on a recap of the NSF, NIH, NSF Covid audit initiative and other OIG Audit work plans and recent audit results and settlements. This webinar provides an in-depth look at audit issues through a combination of audit trends, review of Federal audit reports, and a discussion of day-to-day best practices.

NCURA now offers an additional forum for webinar participants to continue the conversation and share information as a part of the webinar registration fee. At the end of our 90-minute webinar we will take a 5-minute break and then participants can rejoin us and break into small groups to discuss and network on the topic.

Prerequisites: Participants should have an introductory knowledge of sponsored administration and associated terminology.

Jeff Seo, Assistant Vice Provost for Research Compliance, Northeastern University

Jeffrey Silber, Senior Director, Sponsored Financial Services, Cornell University

Roseann Luongo, Higher Ed Consulting Manager, Huron Consulting