Certified Contracts Specialist BSPPAs Certified Contracts Specialist Course

Certified Contracts Specialist BSPPA’s Certified Contracts Specialist Course Module 2 of the Contract Management Certification Program

Certified Contracts Specialist Chapter 1 Review of CPP Chapter 2 Financials Chapter 3 Elements of a Budget Chapter 4 Accounting Chapter 5 Making it all Work Chapter 6 Fraud Chapter 7 Audits

CPP Recap Chapter 1 1. 0 1. 1 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 1. 5 1. 6 1. 7 1. 8 1. 9 1. 10 1. 11 1. 12 1. 13 CPP Review Procurement Basics City & County Governments State Government Cooperative Purchasing Prequalification Requests for Information (RFI) Direct Negotiation Public Auctions Sole Source Procurement Exigency Procurement File Management Special Requirements Contract Enforcement

Intro to Financials Chapter 2 2. 0 What Are Financials? 2. 1 How Are Financial Assessments Used? 2. 2 Financial Performance Assessment Model Money changes everything, Money, money changes everything! Sung by Cyndi Lauper Lyrics Tom Gray

Elements of a Budget Chapter 3 3. 0 We Got the Money, Now What? 3. 1 Where Did the Money Come From? 3. 2 How Do We Treat the Funds 3. 3 Funding Source Requirements "The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. " — Will Rodgers

Principles of Accounting Chapter 4 4. 0 4. 1 4. 2 4. 3 4. 4 4. 5 4. 6 4. 7 4. 8 4. 9 Accounting Fundamentals Generally Accepted Accounting Principals Accounting Terms Tracking Funds To Automate or Not To Automate – General Ledger Book vs. Computer Invoicing Support Documentation Withholding Payments / Unusual Circumstances Partial Withholding of Payments Matching Funds When you make a mistake of adding the date to the right side of the accounting statement, you must add it to the left side too. Accountant's Maxim

Making it all Work Chapter 5 5. 0 Best Practices and Internal Controls

Fraud Chapter 6 6. 0 6. 1 6. 2 6. 3 6. 4 6. 5 Fraud In General The Anatomy of a Fraud Controls – Ways to Prevent Fraud Red Flags – Ways to Identify Fraud Excuses – Do Not Let Them Get In the Way Who Looses From Fraud

Audits Chapter 7 7. 0 7. 1 7. 2 7. 3 Audits Types of Audits Financial Compliance Audit’s Top Ten A fully fledged economic downturn will cause nastier things to come out of the woodwork. The old market saying is: 'Recessions uncover what auditors do not. Philip Coggan

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