Professional Development   

Expand your skillset and broaden your horizons at Code Alabama!

Over 6 weeks (72 course hours), you'll learn coding fundamentals and get hands-on experience with Python - one of the most used and in-demand programming languages in today's workforce. Instructed by experts from the University of North Alabama (UNA), you'll gain the skills needed to become part of a software engineering team.

What's more - you may also qualify for funding assistance!

Program Details

Dates: May 20 - June 27, 2024
Format: Hybrid format - 2 In-person sessions per week and online course activity through Canvas learning platform
In-person sessions: Each Monday and Thursday during the 6 week time frame
Time: 5:30 - 8:30pm
Location: UNA Office of Regional Engagement
541 College StreetFlorence, AL 35630
Course breakdown: Two weeks of introduction to coding
Four weeks of Python training
Python certification testing at end of term
Instruction: Faculty from the UNA Computer Science and Information Systems department
Cost: $2,225
*Deadline to register is May 17, 2024.

This course provides an overview of the skills essential to performing an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.  It addresses the following areas:

•          Preliminary activities
•          Understanding the entity, its environment and internal controls
•          Identification and assessment of risk
•          Designing procedures consistent with assessed risks
•          Evaluating evidence for sufficiency and appropriateness
•          Audit documentation

The Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update is designed to provide its participants with a comprehensive, in-depth review of what’s happening at the GASB, AICPA and GAO, including GASB Statements and Interpretations, Statements on Auditing Standards, Auditing Interpretations, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services, Ethics Interpretations, and exposure drafts, with emphasis on the practical application and impact on practitioners in small to medium sized firms and members in government.  

Learning objectives: To enable participants to understand and apply the recently adopted pronouncements of the GASB, Auditing Standards Board, Professional Ethics Executive Committee, Accounting and Review Services Committee, GAO, OMB and other bodies whose pronouncements affect the preparation and audit of financial statements of state and local governments. 

Are you interested in grant writing? Whether you’re a novice or an expert grant writer, this hands-on workshop will help you develop and/or hone your grant writing skills. The workshop will focus on real-world applicability, featuring grant writing instruction/best practices, practical exercises, and helpful tips for participants. The workshop facilitators have over 50 years combined grant experience in higher education, non-profit organizations, for-profit businesses, and government agencies.

This course provides an overview of the skills essential to performing an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.  It addresses the following areas:

•          Preliminary activities
•          Understanding the entity, its environment and internal controls
•          Identification and assessment of risk
•          Designing procedures consistent with assessed risks
•          Evaluating evidence for sufficiency and appropriateness
•          Audit documentation

The Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update is designed to provide its participants with a comprehensive, in-depth review of what’s happening at the GASB, AICPA and GAO, including GASB Statements and Interpretations, Statements on Auditing Standards, Auditing Interpretations, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services, Ethics Interpretations, and exposure drafts, with emphasis on the practical application and impact on practitioners in small to medium sized firms and members in government.  

Learning objectives: To enable participants to understand and apply the recently adopted pronouncements of the GASB, Auditing Standards Board, Professional Ethics Executive Committee, Accounting and Review Services Committee, GAO, OMB and other bodies whose pronouncements affect the preparation and audit of financial statements of state and local governments. 

Make plans now to attend UNA's 32^nd Annual North Alabama Accounting Forum sponsored by UNA Center For Learning & Professional Development, The Past President's Council, Muscle Shoals Chapter, Institute of Management Accountants, and the UNA Department of Accounting and Business Law.

This annual seminar was developed thirty two years ago to provide a high quality and affordable day of professional development and networking for accounting professionals from throughout Alabama and neighboring states. It is a chance for the accounting community to gather and learn about trends and procedures, directly from the experts. In addition to providing an excellent source of continuing education, a share of the funds generated to the IMA by the Forum are specially designated to be used in the scholarship program. The Muscle Shoals Chapter of the IMA awards a scholarship annually to a deserving senior accounting student at the University of North Alabama.

The course is a space where we learn the collaboration framework created by the International Institute on Collaboration and become better at designing and leading intentional collaborations. In this workshop, we dive into why transformational leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills are so important to collaboration. We will examine and practice using these skills to design, manage, and participate in more impactful collaborations. The life cycle begins when everything is possible and we empower idea holders. It ends when deliverables are finished in a clean, pretty package. Participants will finish this series curious and comfortable about their intentional collaborations while containing new insight and tools for how they show up as leaders in those collaborations. Download more information here!

This course provides an overview of the skills essential to performing an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.  It addresses the following areas:

•          Preliminary activities
•          Understanding the entity, its environment and internal controls
•          Identification and assessment of risk
•          Designing procedures consistent with assessed risks
•          Evaluating evidence for sufficiency and appropriateness
•          Audit documentation

The Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update is designed to provide its participants with a comprehensive, in-depth review of what’s happening at the GASB, AICPA and GAO, including GASB Statements and Interpretations, Statements on Auditing Standards, Auditing Interpretations, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services, Ethics Interpretations, and exposure drafts, with emphasis on the practical application and impact on practitioners in small to medium sized firms and members in government.  

Learning objectives: To enable participants to understand and apply the recently adopted pronouncements of the GASB, Auditing Standards Board, Professional Ethics Executive Committee, Accounting and Review Services Committee, GAO, OMB and other bodies whose pronouncements affect the preparation and audit of financial statements of state and local governments. 

This course provides an overview of the skills essential to performing an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.  It addresses the following areas:

•          Preliminary activities
•          Understanding the entity, its environment and internal controls
•          Identification and assessment of risk
•          Designing procedures consistent with assessed risks
•          Evaluating evidence for sufficiency and appropriateness
•          Audit documentation

The Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update is designed to provide its participants with a comprehensive, in-depth review of what’s happening at the GASB, AICPA and GAO, including GASB Statements and Interpretations, Statements on Auditing Standards, Auditing Interpretations, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services, Ethics Interpretations, and exposure drafts, with emphasis on the practical application and impact on practitioners in small to medium sized firms and members in government.  

Learning objectives: To enable participants to understand and apply the recently adopted pronouncements of the GASB, Auditing Standards Board, Professional Ethics Executive Committee, Accounting and Review Services Committee, GAO, OMB and other bodies whose pronouncements affect the preparation and audit of financial statements of state and local governments.