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Saipan readies for Pacific auditors’ conference
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Posted on Jul 11 2008
Some 300 public auditors and private accountants are expected to attend the 19th annual conference of the Association of Pacific Island Public Auditors to be held on Saipan next week.
Public Auditor Michael S. Sablan, chairman of the regional organization, said 200 participants are coming from all over the Pacific. The 100 others are working in the CNMI government and local accounting firms that perform government audits.
“We’re expecting this to be one of the association’s largest conferences,” said Sablan.
The APIPA conference will be held on July 14-18, 2008 at the Saipan World Resort. It is the third time the CNMI Office of the Public Auditor will host the event.
The conference will offer 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 the Interior Office of the Inspector General-Guam also became a nonvoting member in 1988.
Since its inception, APIPA has expanded to include public auditors from Pohnpei, Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae, Guam, Samoa and the Virgin Islands.
