
QAS Self-Study

Basic

CPE Credits
8 Credits: Auditing (Governmental)
Course Description
The administrative rules in the Uniform Guidance for federal grants cover a lot of ground. Let Sefton Boyars and Bill Allen guide you through these requirements for managing grants from the grantee, the grantor, and the auditor perspective. Sefton and Bill will provide you with hard-earned insights into the trickier, unexpected clauses that could hang you up.
This course covers the latest administrative rules published in the OMB Uniform Guidance Admin Rules in Title 2: Part 200 of the Code of Federal Regulations (also known as: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the regulations underlying the uniform administrative requirements applicable to state and local governments and nonprofits
- Identify key government regulators and their related acronyms
- Differentiate among the four layers of regulations regarding federal award administration
- Define terms used in the uniform administrative requirements
- Identify the pre-federal award requirements in 2 CFR 200
- Identify the contents of federal awards as set out in 2 CFR 200
- Describe the post federal award requirements regarding property standards
- Examine the post federal award requirements regarding procurement standards
- Identify the requirements regarding performance and financial monitoring and reporting
- Differentiate among the rules related to recipient record retention and access
- Contrast the characteristics of a subgrantee with those of a contractor for the purposes of subrecipient monitoring and management
- Identify remedies for noncompliance
- Determine when an award may be closed out and what is affected by the award closeout
Course Specifics
Course ID 5216014 |
Revision Date January 3, 2022 |
Number of Pages 198 |
Prerequisites There are no prerequisites. |
Advanced Preparation None |
Compliance information
Course Instructor

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Bill has 30 years of federal audit and contract monitoring and administration experience. He served as the U.S. Department of Education’s Regional Inspector General for Audit for Regions VII, VIII, and X. Mr. Allen also served as Region IX’s Assistant Regional Inspector General for Audit. In these capacities, he managed the planning, performing, and reporting for performance and compliance audits of public and private (nonprofit and for-profit) educational and health-related organizations. He also negotiated reimbursement contracts, and overhead expense for Medicare Providers and Intermediary organizations [Insurance organizations]. He has led a peer review …

Until his retirement in October 1996, Sefton Boyars was the Department of Education’s Regional Inspector General for Audit in Regions IX and X. During his 35-year career, Sefton worked for a variety of federal and local government audit agencies. He is a member of the California CPA Society and was a long-time chair of his chapter’s combined committee on Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards and Government Accounting and Auditing. Sefton Boyars is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Government Financial Manager, a Certified Fraud Specialist, and a Certified Internal Auditor. He is a past chair of the Western Intergovernmental Audit …
OMB Uniform Guidance Administrative Rules

CPE CREDITS
8 Credits: Auditing (Governmental)
$232.00 – $262.00

QAS Self-Study

Basic

CPE Credits
8 Credits: Auditing (Governmental)
Course Description
The administrative rules in the Uniform Guidance for federal grants cover a lot of ground. Let Sefton Boyars and Bill Allen guide you through these requirements for managing grants from the grantee, the grantor, and the auditor perspective. Sefton and Bill will provide you with hard-earned insights into the trickier, unexpected clauses that could hang you up.
This course covers the latest administrative rules published in the OMB Uniform Guidance Admin Rules in Title 2: Part 200 of the Code of Federal Regulations (also known as: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the regulations underlying the uniform administrative requirements applicable to state and local governments and nonprofits
- Identify key government regulators and their related acronyms
- Differentiate among the four layers of regulations regarding federal award administration
- Define terms used in the uniform administrative requirements
- Identify the pre-federal award requirements in 2 CFR 200
- Identify the contents of federal awards as set out in 2 CFR 200
- Describe the post federal award requirements regarding property standards
- Examine the post federal award requirements regarding procurement standards
- Identify the requirements regarding performance and financial monitoring and reporting
- Differentiate among the rules related to recipient record retention and access
- Contrast the characteristics of a subgrantee with those of a contractor for the purposes of subrecipient monitoring and management
- Identify remedies for noncompliance
- Determine when an award may be closed out and what is affected by the award closeout
Course Specifics
Course ID 5216014 |
Revision Date January 3, 2022 |
Number of Pages 198 |
Prerequisites There are no prerequisites. |
Advanced Preparation None |
Compliance information
Course Instructor

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Bill has 30 years of federal audit and contract monitoring and administration experience. He served as the U.S. Department of Education’s Regional Inspector General for Audit for Regions VII, VIII, and X. Mr. Allen also served as Region IX’s Assistant Regional Inspector General for Audit. In these capacities, he managed the planning, performing, and reporting for performance and compliance audits of public and private (nonprofit and for-profit) educational and health-related organizations. He also negotiated reimbursement contracts, and overhead expense for Medicare Providers and Intermediary organizations [Insurance organizations]. He has led a peer review …

Until his retirement in October 1996, Sefton Boyars was the Department of Education’s Regional Inspector General for Audit in Regions IX and X. During his 35-year career, Sefton worked for a variety of federal and local government audit agencies. He is a member of the California CPA Society and was a long-time chair of his chapter’s combined committee on Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards and Government Accounting and Auditing. Sefton Boyars is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Government Financial Manager, a Certified Fraud Specialist, and a Certified Internal Auditor. He is a past chair of the Western Intergovernmental Audit …
OMB Uniform Guidance Administrative Rules

CPE CREDITS
8 Credits: Auditing (Governmental)
$232.00 – $262.00