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Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector

In an environment of falling revenues, tightening budgets and increasingly complex compliance restrictions, you need the proper technical guidance to reduce the demands on your staff, allowing you to focus on your constituents.

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35:34

Grants Management Audit Preparation Tips Part 1

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/09/08

Grants professionals must navigate every phase of the grant lifecycle, from pre-award planning to final closeout. One particularly stressful aspect of grants management is preparing for the single audit and addressing the associated challenges. For success in this phase, grant professionals and accounting staff must seek to comprehend the auditor's role and the expectations involved. In part one of this two-part episode series, we explore effective strategies for audit preparation with&...

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21:14

GASB 101 - Journal Entries, Disclosures, and...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/04/07

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences, helps align the recognition and measurement guidance under a unified model and amends certain previously required disclosures. The statement refreshes the GASB’s compensated absence guidance from the 90s to reflect changes to compensated absences offered since the guidance was introduced. Cherry Bekaert’s team has outlined a four-phase approach to help your government implement GASB 101. In the final e...

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23:52

Understanding Subrecipients in Grant Projects

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/03/28

Subrecipients play a crucial role in executing grant projects, but determining whether to contract with a vendor or issue a subaward to a subrecipient can be challenging. Given the complexities of subrecipient monitoring and the high compliance demands, it may not always make sense for an organization to opt for a subaward. As such, it's essential for organizations to make informed decisions to ensure the successful execution and completion of grant projects. Join Kat Kizior, Grant Management...

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20:15

GASB 101: Defining GASB 101 & First Phase of...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/03/06

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences, helps align the recognition and measurement guidance under a unified model and amends certain previously required disclosures. The statement refreshes GASB’s guidance from the 90s based on the changes to compensated absences offered since the guidance was introduced. Cherry Bekaert’s team has outlined a four-phase approach to help your government implement GASB 101. In the third episode of the four-par...

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15:11

GASB 101: Completeness of Compensated Absences

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/02/19

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences, helps align the recognition and measurement guidance under a unified model and amends certain previously required disclosures. The statement refreshes GASB’s compensated absence guidance from the 90s based on the changes to compensated absences offered since the guidance was introduced. Cherry Bekaert’s team has outlined a four-phase approach to help your government implement GASB 101. In the second ep...

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31:11

OMB Federal Funding Freeze: Insights & Strategies

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/02/07

In this episode of Cherry Bekaert’s Government & Public Sector podcast, host Kat Kizior, Cherry Bekaert’s Grants Management Solutions Lead, and GovNavigators’ CEO Robert Shea, walk through the sequence of events following the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) memo issued Monday, January 27, 2025. The memo instructed all agencies to temporarily halt "all activities related to the obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance." The OMB then released a Q&A on...

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16:24

GASB 101 Implementation: Phase One Overview

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2025/02/03

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences helps align the recognition and measurement guidance under a unified model and amends certain previously required disclosures. The statement refreshes GASB’s compensated absence guidance from the 90s based on the changes to compensated absences offered since the guidance was introduced. Cherry Bekaert’s team has outlined a four-phase approach to help your government implement GASB 101. In the first epis...

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19:11

American Rescue Plan Act: Compliance Insights

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/12/10

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021. ARPA is a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package. The State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) is a significant component of the ARPA. The SLFRF allocates $350 billion to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments. The purpose of these funds is to provide governments with the resources needed to respond to the pandemic, replace lost revenue, and support economic recovery.Gran...

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24:45

Grants Compliance Tips During Staffing Transitions

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/12/04

In the field of grants management, staffing transitions often lead to a high-risk environment for compliance violations, operations disruption, and heightened stress levels in organizations already stretched thin. Nevertheless, as explored in this podcast, these transitions and the accompanying challenges are common issues many organizations face for various reasons. Grant Management Manager Kat Kizior and new co-host and Grants Management Senior Associate Paula Heller join forces to res...

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26:56

FEMA Disaster Assistance: Application Process Guide

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/10/08

Following the recent natural disaster, we paused our scheduled programming to provide our viewers with key information on Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance for recovery. This podcast provides essential details on deadlines, the application process for the FEMA Public Assistance Program and what to expect after applying. Kat Kizior, Grant Management Manager, and new co-host Paula Heller, Grants Management Senior Associate, join forces to address FEMA grant funding poss...

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27:47

Managing Grant Funding with Workflow Automation Tools

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/09/09

In the fifth episode of the grants management podcast series, we focus on grants compliance and the benefit of using automation for tracking and reporting.Host Kimberly Konczack, an Advisory Manager at Cherry Bekaert, is joined by Kat Kizior, Manager, and special guest Emily Naufel, Director of Customer Success at AmpliFund. Together, they discuss the benefits of automation and tips for organizations interested in making the switch. As part of Cherry Bekaert’s GPS podcast series, this episode...

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21:02

Grants Management: Understanding Indirect Cost & Cost...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/08/13

Episode four of the Grants Management Podcast series focuses on indirect costs related to grant projects and the importance of capturing those costs to assist your organization with grant-related personnel and overhead expenses.This podcast episode is hosted by Kimberly Konczack, an Advisory Manager at Cherry Bekaert, and Kat Kizior, Manager, with special guest Nikky Lettini, Managing Director, Advisory Services. As part of Cherry Bekaert’s GPS podcast series, this episode covers:An expl...

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20:13

Recapping the Government Finance Officers Association...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/06/28

Podcast host Danny Martinez, Managing Director and Government & Public Sector Accounting Advisory Lead, is joined by Lauren Strope, Partner, and Jack McKee, Advisory Senior Manager to recap and reflect on their time at the 118th Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) National Conference. Held in Orlando, FL, the conference had over 7,000 attendees, with 50 states represented and chances for continuing professional education (CPE), networking and learning.Listen to this episode to ...

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18:53

Restoring Trust in Government: OCED’s Trust in...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/06/13

Cherry Bekaert’s Advisory Leader, Srikant Sastry, is joined by journalist Richard Greene and his wife, Catherine Barrett, as they discuss the openness driver of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OCED) Trust in Government Framework.Richard Greene is a prominent journalist who has spent the better part of the past 30 years covering state and local governments. It is often said that trust and confidence in government is strongest at the local level because that’s wher...

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20:54

Understanding 2024 OMB 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/05/24

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently published its final revisions to the federal Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200). This revision outlines compliance and reporting requirements for federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Host Kat Kizior, Senior Associate at Cherry Bekaert, is joined by special guest Robert Shea, CEO of GovNavigators, to discuss2 CFR 200 uniform guidance updates and how these changes will affect state and local governments, non-profits and p...

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15:25

Navigating GASB 102: Certain Risk Exposure

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/04/16

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17:09

Openness and Transparency in Government with OECD’s...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/03/20

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19:04

Justify Your Spending— Grant Expenditures

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/03/15

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27:25

Enterprise Resource Planning System Selection and...

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/03/07

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16:42

Navigating GASB 101: Compensated Absences

Cherry Bekaert: Government & Public Sector ·

2024/02/23

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