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Pacific auditors set Saipan conference
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Posted on Apr 14 2008
The Association of Pacific Island Public Auditors will hold its 19th annual conference on Saipan.
The Office of the Public Auditor will host the conference to be held from July 14 to July 18, 2008. It is OPA’s third time to host the event since the organization was formed.
Public auditor Michael Sablan, who is the 2008 APIPA chairman, said at the group’s website, “Accountability is not only critical to a well functioning government and society, it is also everyone’s business. This year’s conference will offer training sessions on auditing and governmental accounting and offer opportunities for cross-communication and cross-training.”
The APIPA 2008 Conference is offering seventeen courses in audit, audit supervision, basic finance, and finance.
The Association of Pacific Islands Public Auditors was formed in January 1988 through a memorandum of understanding among the audit organizations of five Pacific Island nations.
The founding parties to the 1988 MOU were the public auditors of the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, and the CNMI; the territorial auditor of American Samoa, and the auditor general of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
The Department of Interior Office of the Inspector General-Guam also became a nonvoting member in 1988.
Since the inception, APIPA has expanded to include public auditors from Pohnpei, Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae, Guam, Samoa and the Virgin Islands.
