BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ddaysoftware.com//NONSGML DDay.iCal 1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:2017 SESSIONS\n02/2/17 - Take Stock of Hidden Resource Wasters: Identify Process Inefficiencies to Reclaim Lost Staff Time03/2/17 - Demys tifying the Cooperative Purchasing World:  How Does it Work?04/6/17 - Ente rprise Resource Planning - IT Directors Talk About the Biggest IT Project You'll Ever Undertake05/4/17 -Budgeting Practices – A Primer on Government al Budgeting06/1/17 - Implementing and Reporting GASB Statement No. 84\, F iduciary Activities08/3/17 - How Do You Make Your Investment Policy Work F or You? 10/12/17 -  To Borrow or Not to Borrow? Making Sense of Issuing Bo nds in Today's Uncertain Illinois Bond Market 11/2/17 - Fraud Response Pla n 12/7/17 - Grant Management – Best Practices and What You Need to Know to Ensure a Smooth Uniform Guidance Audit\n\nThe program is delivered via a secure web site and audio conferencing service to your desktop. In order t o participate you will need a phone for audio and computer with a Web brow ser to view the presentation. Registrants will receive instructions with a  unique url log-in link\, toll-free phone number\, and access code (diffe rent for each webinar).  Participants are muted throughout the webinar but can submit questions to the presenter through an on-line chat feature.  T o ensure that you will receive the instructions from IGFOA\, list "First T hursday Webinar Login Link - IGFOA PEC " as an approved or trusted sender in your email addresses and test the conn ection in advance of the  webinar.Whether you are watching on your own or in a group setting\, each individual must be registered - including those who may not intend to claim continuing professional education (CPE) credit .  CPE credit will only be given to the individual that is registered for the webinar.  To receive CPE credit\, the registered individuals must atte nd each webinar in its entirety as tracked in the web participation report and complete the participation monitoring tools admininstered throughout the webinar.  Only registered and paid participants fulfilling these crite ria will be issued Certificates of Attendance. \nIGFOA reserves the right to modify the agendas\, monthly topics\, and/or speakers\, cancel the trai nings due to low enrollment\, or to close registration if full.  Please al low up to 90 minutes for the webinar presentations and questions/answers.\ n\n2017 IGFOA Government finance WEBINAR series DESCRIPTIONS\, LEARNING OB JECTIVES\, AND SPEAKERS\n \nTAKE STOCK OF HIDDEN RESOURCE WASTERS:  IDENTI FY PROCESS INEFFICIENCIES TO RECLAIM LOST STAFF TIMEDate: February 2\, 201 7Time: 10:00 - 11:15 AMPlease allow 90 minutes for the presentation and qu estion/answers.Description: Feeling the squeeze to do more with less staff \, resources\, and budget dollars?  Explore ways to identify the tools tha t exist in your organization to control and prevent organizational ineffic iencies and reclaim lost hours.  In this session you will learn how to tak e stock and fix areas where your team’s time is lost to process inefficien cies\, redundant and duplicate work effort or manual activities.   During the session\, real case studies will be presented where different cities h ave made simple changes and recovered weeks of additional staff time.\nLea rning Objectives:  Participants completing this session will be able to:\n \nLearn how to find time wasters and explore ways to reclaim staff hours l ost to inefficient processes\nUnderstand the process by which you can tack action to resolve inefficiencies\nLearn how to take stock of inefficienci es\nExplore step-by-step actions you can take now to reduce inefficiencies \, manual or redundant processes\nIdentify when “things” aren’t working an d determine:  do we need new systems or new process?\nSpeakers: Mary Smith \, Managing Partner of Baecore Group\, Inc. Tracy Neiheisel\, Project Mana ger of Baecore Group\, Inc. \nDelivery method: Group Internet BasedProgram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites required Advanced Preparat ion: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Management Services - TechnicalEarn about 1.5 CPE credit\nTop of Page\nDEMYSTIFYING THE COOPERA TIVE PURCHASING WORLD: HOW DOES IT WORK?Date: March 2\, 2017Time: 10:00 - 11:15 AMPlease allow 90 minutes for the presentation and question/answers. Description: Cooperative purchasing is used at the local\, regional and na tional levels to allow like agencies to solicit contracts for commodities or services and aggregate purchasing volume\, expertise and resources to g ain better pricing\, service\, delivery and industry best practices.  This webinar will provide an overview of what contracts are available for loca l governments to piggyback on.  You will also hear from an expert on the a dvantages of participating\, common concerns\, and how to make the case fo r organizational support for cooperative purchasing.Learning Objectives:   Participants completing this session will be able to:• Gain a basic unders tanding of the pros and cons of cooperative purchasing.• Learn how to make the case for organizational support for cooperative purchasing through sp end analysis and developing a strategic procurement strategy.• Become awar e of the wide range of cooperative purchasing opportunities that are avail able to local governmental units and how to ascertain if they fit your ent ities needs.Speaker: Jennifer Sulentic\, Director\, ProcureSource\nIntende d Audience: Finance ProfessionalsDelivery method: Group Internet BasedProg ram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites required Advanced Prepa ration: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Finance - Technica lEarn about 1.5 CPE creditTop of Page  \n\n04/6/17 - Enterprise Resource P lanning - IT Directors Talk About the Biggest IT Project You'll Ever Under takeDescription: Learn from IT Professionals in various stages of ERP impl ementations on what works\, what does not\, and how to make the project as successful as possible.  Three stages of ERP use will be discussed: runni ng a procurement\, implementing a system\, and administering an on-going s ystem.  In many cases\, Finance is the main link in an ERP\, so Finance an d IT have a vested interest in a successful project.\nLearning Objectives:   Participants completing this session will be able to:• What are core fun ctions in an ERP\, and what else should you expect to include?• How to con duct the process to select an ERP• Things to consider during an ERP implem entation• How to manage upgrades\, project lifecycle\, on-going support an d IT's role \nSpeakers:Marc Thorson\, Information Technology Director\, Ci ty of DeKalb\, ILPeter Schaak\, Director of Information Technology for the Village of Schaumburg\, ILSanford Hess\, IT Director\, City of Urbana\, I L\nIntended Audience: Finance ProfessionalsDelivery method: Internet Based Program Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites required Advanced P reparation: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Business Manag ement and OrganizationEarn about 1.5 CPE credit\nTop of Page  \n\n05/4/17 -Budgeting Practices – A Primer on Governmental BudgetingThis webinar will provide basic principles and strategies for use in developing annual oper ating and capital budgets.  It will provide an introduction to governmenta l budgeting\, utilizing best practices that provide a strong foundation fo r governmental finance professionals.\nLearning Objectives:  Participants completing this session will be able to:• Familiarize themselves with tech niques useful in assembling annual operating and capital budgets.• Identif y practices unique to their organization and how to incorporate them into a structured budget process.• Become equipped with basic budgeting skills that can be expanded upon in the future.\nSpeakers: Scott Anderson\, Finan ce Director\, Village of Buffalo GroveDavid Erb\, Finance Director\, Villa ge of Mount ProspectJulie Zolghadr\, Office of Budget and Management\, Cit y of Springfield\nIntended Audience: New finance professionals or those ne w to budgeting for local governments. Also can serve as a refresher for th e experienced finance professionalDelivery method: Group Internet BasedPro gram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites required Advanced Prep aration: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Finance - Technic alEarn about 1.5 CPE creditTop of Page  \n\n \n06/1/17 - Implementing and Reporting GASB Statement No. 84\, Fiduciary Activities \nThe Governmental Accounting Standards Board recently released a pronouncement on Fiduciary Activities that changes the definitions of fiduciary funds\, which fiducia ry activities to include in the primary government’s financial statements and what is reported for certain fiduciary funds.\nLearning Objectives:  P articipants completing this session will be able to:• Obtain a detailed un derstanding of the definition of fiduciary funds\,• Understand the types o f fiduciary activities to be reported in the future\,• Identifying what cu stodial funds are used for and how to report custodial funds\,• Learn how the new pronouncements will impact reporting pension plans\, OPEB plans\, funds held for others and accounting and reporting student activity fees f or School Districts and Community Colleges. \nSpeakers: Lisa R. Parker\, C PA\, CGMA\, Senior Project Manager\, Governmental Accounting Standards Boa rdFrederick G. Lantz\, CPA\, Partner-in-Charge\, Government Services\, Sik ich LLP\nIntended Audience: Finance ProfessionalsDelivery method: Group In ternet BasedProgram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites require d Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Ac counting (Governmental)Earn about 1.5 CPE creditTop of Page   \n\n08/3/17 - How Do You Make Your Investment Policy Work For You? \nLearn how Will Co unty\, Illinois revamped their Investment Policy and improved their return s.  Additionally\, get an update on where the Fixed Income market might be moving in the next couple of years and what you might do to take advantag e of the current yield curve.Learning Objectives:  Participants completing this session will be able to:1. Gain an understanding of putting together or updating an Investment Policy2. Learn about various Investment options which fall under the 30 ILCS 235 Public Funds Investment Act3. Learn abou t the current yield curve and how best to take advantage of it\nSpeakers:  Brian McDaniel\, Chief Investment Officer for Will County\, ILDaniele Dris coll\, Vice President\, JPMorgan Securities\nIntended Audience: Finance Pr ofessionalsDelivery method: Group Internet BasedProgram Level: OverviewPre requisites: No prerequisites required Advanced Preparation: No advanced pr eparation requiredField of Study: Management Services - TechnicalEarn abou t 1.5 CPE creditTop of Page  \n\nTo Borrow or Not to Borrow? Making Sense of Issuing Bonds in Today's Uncertain Illinois Bond Market NEW DATE: Octob er 12\, 2017Time: 10:00 - 11:15 AMPlease allow 90 minutes for the presenta tion and question/answers.\nBond industry panelists will discuss recent de velopments in the municipal bond market\, including interest rate trends a nd how Illinois local government borrowers continue to be impacted by the uncertain climate in Springfield. Other topics include exploring opportuni ties for refinancing bonds for significant savings\, and recent federal se curities law enforcement actions and what those actions mean for finance d irectors and managers.\nLearning Objectives:1. To bring your knowledge up to date on the interest rate environment for municipal bonds\, including h ow events in Springfield impact borrowing rates for Illinois local governm ents. 2. To gain insight as to whether your local government has outstandi ng bonds that are good candidates for refinancing for savings.3. To learn about recent securities law enforcement actions and how those actions migh t impact your responsibilities on a bond transaction.\nSpeakers:Lawrence E . White\, Partner\, Chapman and Cutler LLPKent Floros\, Associate\, Chapma n and Cutler LLPTodd Krzyskowski\, Managing Director\, Mesirow Financial R aphaliata McKenzie\, Senior Vice President\, Speer Financial Inc.\nIntende d Audience: Finance ProfessionalsDelivery method: Group Internet BasedProg ram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites required Advanced Prepa ration: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Finance - Technica lEarn about 1.5 CPE credit\nTop of Page  \n\nFraud Response PlanDate: Nove mber 2\, 2017Time: 10:00 - 11:15 AMPlease allow 90 minutes for the present ation and question/answers.\nThis session will include a framework for a F raud Response Plan and the benefits to both the entity and the finance pro fessional.  The framework will be applied to real scenarios to see how a F raud Response Plan would have helped. \nLearning Objectives: Participants completing this session will be able to:1. Understand the basic framework of a Fraud Response Plan.2. Focus in on the hazards that are avoided with a well-constructed plan.3. Understand their role and the roles of others b oth inside and outside the entity.\nSpeaker: Jeremy Plank\, RSM US LLP\nIn tended Audience: Finance ProfessionalsDelivery method: Group Internet Base dProgram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites required Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study: Accounting (G overnmental) - TechnicalEarn about 1.5 CPE creditRegistration Page\nTop of Page  \n\nGrant Management – Best Practices and What You Need to Know to Ensure a Smooth Uniform Guidance Audit Date: December 7\, 2017Time: 10:00 - 11:15 AMPlease allow 90 minutes for the presentation and question/answer s.\nThis session will include a discussion on Uniform Guidance requirement s and how they tie into day to day grant management. The session will also cover single audit terminology\, auditor and auditee responsibilities\, i nternal control over compliance and helpful tips in grant management to av oid surprises.Speaker: John Cutrera\, BKD LLP                    Christine Witnik\, BKD LLP\nLearning Objectives: Participants completing this sessi on will be able to:1. Better understand Uniform Guidance audit requirement s2. Understand their responsibilities as recipients of federal grant fundi ng3. Identify\, avoid and mitigate potential pitfalls in grant management4 . Understand the internal control requirements associated with federal gra nt funding\nIntended Audience: Finance ProfessionalsDelivery method: Group Internet BasedProgram Level: OverviewPrerequisites: No prerequisites requ ired Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation requiredField of Study:  Audit (Governmental) - TechnicalEarn about 1.5 CPE creditRegistration Pag e\nTop of Page\n\n  \n\n DTEND:20170406T111500 DTSTAMP:20260412T103310 DTSTART:20170406T100000 LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:ERP - IT Directors Talk About the Biggest IT Project You'll Ever Un dertake UID:13547513-f5a3-47f6-93d8-ffe883cf91ed END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR