APIPA2025 - Instructor Bob

Bob Adachi

Bob Adachi graduated from the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business and began his Federal career with the Internal Revenue Service. Bob then joined the Environmental Protection Agency Office of the Inspector General and has been involved in every type of audit conducted within the OIG ranging from performance audit to financial audits of grantees and EPA direct contractors. He has also provided assistance to the Office of Investigations in connection with grant and contract related fraud.

Bob has been the recipient of numerous awards including:

President's Council for Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) Awards for Excellence
Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) Awards for Excellence
EPA Gold Medals for Commendable Service to the Agency
OIG Honor Award for Exceptional Contributions

Bob was the Director of Forensic Audits for the EPA Office of Inspector General from October 2008 till his retirement in October 2015.

Bob has been an instructor with the Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency, the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) and Graduate School USA. Bob has made presentations to various organizations including the AGA, the Association of Certified Fraud Specialists, the Northwest and Western Intergovernmental Audit Forum, as well as numerous Government conferences and training courses.

Course Listing

TRACK A

Understand the full grants management process, the current regulatory requirements (OMB Revised 2022 Guidance) governing grants and the role of auditors in developing strategies for assessing compliance and performance. Learn to develop audit objectives and procedures to identify issues and recommendations for constructive feedback, corrective action and accountability. Learn the stages of effective grants management from award, monitoring, audit and close-out. Become skillful at implementing strategies for auditing, application of cost principles performance measurement and reporting through each of the grant stages by applying those strategies in case studies

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TRACK D

You are a grant manager and you need to have contractors help you achieve your grant objectives. Does your organization have the administrative knowledge of the various Federal requirements to ensure that the contract is awarded properly? Is the proper contract type being used? Does your organization perform a cost and price analysis before awarding a contract? If you cannot answer yes to all these questions, then this course may help you.

In order to meet the grant objectives, recipients are required to obtain goods and services through contracts, The purpose of this course is to assist you in managing, reviewing or auditing contracts issued using Federal funds. Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to develop a forward-pricing proposal to address how to evaluate a contractor's estimate of costs to perform a government contract. Develop a historical cost audit to determine whether the contractor is entitled to be reimbursed for costs claimed on contracts. Learn how to use the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and the Cost Accounting Standards to determine the allowability, allocability and reasonableness of costs. Learn how indirect allocation rates are applied to contracts.

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