Disaster Accounting Basics

Registration is at an external URL for this event.

  • T-ACC600
     agosto 13, 2025 - agosto 15, 2025
     8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Texas Division of Emergency Management

Venue Address:
313 E. Anderson Lane, Austin, Texas, 78752, United States

 This high-level course covers basic disaster accounting documentation requirements, processes, and procedures, as well as cost tracking. It should assist jurisdiction personnel with implementing appropriate processes and procedures for the entire disaster timeline before a disaster takes place to help maximize reimbursement potential. This course includes live, instructor-led presentations, interactive breakout sessions, and a disaster documentation simulation. Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:
  • Locate and explain federal, state, and local regulations concerning purchasing, payroll, and cost tracking before, during, and after emergencies.
  • Explain common terms in their own words.
  • Illustrate preparedness for Audits of federal grant funds.

Discuss Documentation requirements, processes, and procedures, including:

  • Cost tracking
  • Cost documentation
  • Document retention

Special Instructions

Register for this course through the Texas Division of Emergency Management’s (TDEM) training portal.

This course has a number of prerequisites which can be reviewed on TDEM’s website. Personnel should be assigned to positions from which they would likely make a hazardous material response to a WMD incident, be assigned to a position in which they will develop departmental policies and procedures regarding WMD emergency responder actions or be assigned to positions from which they will develop or deliver WMD training to prepare their departments to respond to such incidents. This course is intended primarily for HazMat technicians. This course is also intended for law enforcement personnel tasked with supporting the operational phase of a WMD incident and transitioning into the crime scene investigation phase; laboratory; public health; and environmental personnel.

Register for the course.

For Questions

Contact Dee Harrison, CAPCOG homeland security manager.