Baker Tilly Co-hosting Construction Audit Webinar with its Strategic Partner: Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA)

December 28, 2010

VIENNA, VA – Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly has strategically partnered with ACUA to host a series of webinars. The first two webinars in the series address construction auditing and cover strategies and practices to enable an owner to help mitigate the inherent risks of construction with comprehensive project controls and contract audit techniques.

Baker Tilly Senior Manager Monica Modi Dalwadi and Construction Risk Services Practice Leader Tony Ollmann will present part two of this series, titled "Continuous Monitoring of Active Construction Projects," on January 12, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. eastern standard time. It will address mitigating construction project risks like change order control, pricing, and scope, as well as progress reporting, project controls, contract accounting, business ethics compliance, document compliance, and design, plan, and specifications compliance.

The first webinar, titled "Where to Start and How to make it Work for Your Organization," included over 250 participants from across the nation. One participant from the first session stated, "Thank you for providing this webinar--a very useful and easy way to obtain training/to learn." Another stated,
"It was great to hear the experts’ views."

To register for this session, or download slides from the first webinar in the series, visit the event website >

About Baker Tilly
With staff totaling more than 1,400, Baker Tilly provides a wide range of accounting, tax, assurance, and consulting services. Ranked as the 13th largest firm in the country, Baker Tilly serves clients from offices in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Washington D.C., and throughout Wisconsin.

Baker Tilly serves higher education and research institutions across the country. We offer the broad resources of a full-service accounting and advisory firm, blending deep industry insight with sound business advice providing consulting, risk advisory, assurance, and tax services for leading institutions. We collaborate with management, internal audit functions, boards, and audit committees to address areas of strategic importance. We deliver practical, customized solutions to our clients while keeping the unique culture of higher education and research institutions in mind.

Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of 147 highly qualified, independent, accounting and business advisory firms in 114 countries, with more than 26,000 professionals. The combined worldwide revenue of independent member firms exceeds $3.13 billion.

About ACUA
ACUA is a professional organization comprised of higher education audit professionals from all over the globe. The organization strives to continually improve the internal operations and processes of the individual institutions it serves, through continued professional development and the dissemination of individual internal audit experiences in an open forum with friends and colleagues. For more information, please visit the ACUA website.

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