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Ismail Asmal
Cedric Bennett
at FSTO Paris in 1995. She has been training in Accounting since 1999. She teaches: Accounting I, Accounting II, Voucher Examiner, Advanced voucher examiner, Servicing Serviced Agencies and Travel Policy.
William Marjenhoff
Bill Marjenhoff is a retired Foreign Service Officer. He served in management and consular positions in Swaziland, Botswana, The Netherlands, Thailand, and Washington, D.C. Jonathon Sides started working for the US Government in 1995. He is a Financial Analyst / Trainer in the Financial Support and Training Office. Tanya Walker has been with CGFS since 2001. She is currently a lead trainer for Travel Policy, Voucher Examination and Advanced Voucher Examination. Before joining State, Tanya worked as a Senior Technical Analyst for the software firm, Blackbaud.
Jonathon Sides
Tanya Walker
Available Courses
GFS11 - Accounting I
This course places the accounting role within the overall context of the United States Governments Business Model. Topics covered in the course include financial management, legal requirements, budget authority, funds control and limitations, obligations, principal State Department accounting classifications, COAST (including reporting capabilities such as 60 and 62 reports and their analysis), authority transfers, 477s, the RFMS accounting/disbursing systems, and Servicing Center interaction with posts. The course provides a series of interactive presentations and student activities. Students will be required to take and pass a final exam. advanced level. The Advanced course includes additional topics such as: on-line reading and summaries of Appropriation Law; ICASS agreements and cost centers as described on the web site; internal controls questionnaires; the year-end process; financial planning and budgeting; the Bureau Strategic Plan and the Mission Strategic Plan processes. The course uses participant discussions, rather than a lecture format, to incorporate individual experiences and real life situations. The course includes exercises and requires a final exam to reinforce learning. Prerequisite: Participants must have no less than two years of experience in the Financial Management Office. Audience: Primarily overseas-based Department of State employees. CGFS designed this course for Accountants who provide accounting and budgeting services to Serviced Agencies and Voucher Examiners who provide vouchering services to Serviced Agencies. Other employees assigned to the Financial Management Office (FMO) may also attend to obtain a broader understanding of the Serviced Agencies financial structures. We strongly recommend that only Financial Management Office personnel providing above-mentioned services attend this course. Enrollment priority given to Financial Specialists/Budget Analysts, Accountants, Voucher Examiners and FMOs/Certifying Officers. NOTE: This course is not appropriate for non-serviced agency or serviced agency (non-State) trainees.
GFS12 - Accounting II
The 5-day Accounting II course builds on competencies learned in the CGFS Accounting I course. The course addresses functionally similar topics to Accounting I on a more
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ity. Students discuss in detail system rejections, data entry errors, cashier reconciliation statements, and discrepancies. Additionally, the course covers internal controls, fiscal irregularities, cashiering Best Practices, and customer service skills. As an advanced course, the instructors expect active class participation and will discuss real-life situations throughout the course. dents should know the sources of Appropriations Law and its basics.
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GFS31 - Budget Techniques
This course provides a review of the State Department budget process. Topics will include: an overview of the Federal budget process; post budget construction process; specific issues within some of State Departments budgets (State Program, DS, Representation, Leases); budgeting tools; executing budgets; tracking and review of budget comments; and best practices. Participants will discuss experiences derived at post relative to course material. The class uses practical exercises and extensive discussion to reinforce learning. Prerequisite: Nominees must have attended the Accounting I course or have at least two years of accounting experience at post. Audience: Overseas-based Department of State and other-agency employees. CGFS designed this course for Budget/Financial Analysts, Financial Specialists and other persons who have responsibility for financial plans and budgets, funds control and accounting. The course primarily draws from State Department budget examples. Enrollment priority given to Financial Specialists, Budget Analysts, Accountants, Accounting Technicians, FMOs, and Certifying Officers. 1. Cash management. Topics include internal controls, performing the monthly-unannounced cash verification, Consular Affairs reporting requirements, cashier regulations, allowable functions as well as other cash management topics such as fiscal irregularities. 2. Daily cashier operations. Topics include how to verify funds using WinACS, verification of the cashiers on-hand accountability, determine how to void collections and vouchers submitted by the cashier, understand the cause of rejections within WinACS, solutions for correcting rejections, the importance of FMA function, and how to research and balance accountability when faced with line 2 differences.
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RSC01 - Certifying Officer Workshop
The primary objective of this 3-day FSN Certifying Officer workshop is to strengthen the technical skills and increase participants ability to increase their awareness on all aspects of the certification process. The workshop broadens technical and practical knowledge required of an FSN certifying officer as well as using the collective experience of class attendees to address common issues and problems. The agenda includes historical development of FSNs and Certifying Officers; Appropriation Law review; electronic research; selected GAO opinions (non-cashier); selected GAO opinions (both non-cashier and cashier issues); special topics (grants, advances, IRS compliance, and restrictions and limitations). In addition, participants will be asked to bring at least three (3) case studies from their experiences as ACOs that will be used for class discussions.
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GFS71 - Systems Workshop
This five day Systems Workshop course provides participants with an in-depth overview of various Global Financial Services financial products and resource tools from a system administrator perspective. The Systems Workshop includes hands-on training in the COAST, Global e-Travel (GeT), WinACS, and WinT& software systems at post. GFS Knowledge Base, GFS Web page, and SHIFTS will be thoroughly demonstrated as resource tools for supporting these systems. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss a variety of topics that will include system platforms, operational challenges in-line with course material, file management best practices, and future systems planned by CGFS.
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er agencies may apply, but should keep in mind that only State regulations will be covered. munications between posts and the Financial Management Centers and how to correct errors within the voucher processing system. The Course is built around a series of interactive lectures and student activities. Students will be required to take and pass a final exam. post. Audience: Overseas-based Department of State and other-agency employees. CGFS designed this course for personnel who are responsible for preparing, maintaining, and operating the ICASS budget through the Web.ICASS software at post; mainly Financial Specialists, Budget Analysts, and their backups, and other agency personnel whose duties require a very extensive hands-on knowledge of the ICASS cost distribution software.
Accounting I
Bangkok 12/16/2013 2/24/2014 6/16/2014 Charleston 3/24/2014 6/2/2014 Paris 12/16/2013 3/31/2014
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Quito 1/6/2014
Accounting II
Basic Cashiering (2 weeks) Bangkok 2/3/2014 Basic 8/18/2014 Cashiering Charleston 3/17/2014 6/16/2014 Paris 5/12/2014
Advanced Cashiering This course has been temporarily suspended due implementations of COAST-Cashiering. GFS will update the course in 2014.
Managing Overseas Cashier Ops Charleston 10/21/2013 MOCO 7/14/2014 Paris 3/3/2014
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Johannesburg 9/30/2013 Lima 12/2/2013 Lima 12/2/2013
Budget Techniques
Bangkok 6/9/2014 Charleston 3/10/2014 Paris 8/18/2014
Budget Techniques
Web.ICASS
Bangkok 11/4/2013 6/16/2014 Charleston 3/17/2014 Paris 8/25/2014
Web ICASS
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How to Register
Prospective students should register through the CGFS Training Intranet site at http://training. cgfs.state.gov after obtaining supervisor approval. Prospective students who do not have access to the State OpenNet should contact the Global Training Coordinator at gfstraining@state.gov to register. Please including the following information: Course Name Course Date Nominees Name Nominees Job Title Years of Experience Agency and Section Email Address
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