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Today on the AGA Web Blog: Thoughts on Post-Sustainability Models —By: Sunil Datt, MBA, CGFM, PMP. Read more.

Report Rejects Medicare Boast of Paring Fraud —Charles Duhigg, The New York TImes. Read more.

IRS Celebrity Snoop Gets Three Years' Probation —WebCPA. Read more.

Hoyer Calls for Four-Day Work Week for Feds by October —Stephen Losey, Federal Times. Read more.

NEW! Register Now for AGA Audio Conferences!
- Aug. 20: Everything You Wanted to Know About Performance Management and Reporting, But Were Afraid to Ask
- Sept. 10: Fraud Prevention and Detection

View the 2008-2009 Audio Conference Schedule.

Financial Management Standards Board (FMSB) Issues Comment Letters
AGA’s FMSB has sent comments to the FASAB on the exposure draft of the proposed Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts (SFFAC), Distinguishing Basic Information, Required Supplementary Information, and Other Accompanying Information. Read the letter. The FMSB has also sent comments to the GASB on its exposure draft of a Proposed Statement entitled, Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Fund Type Definitions. Read the letter.

NEW!—The FMSB has issued a comment letter to the GASB on its proposed revisions to Concepts Statement No. 2 related to Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting. Read the letter.

The FMSB sent a comment letter to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) on their recent Exposure Draft on Social Benefits: Disclosure of Cash Transfers to Individuals or Households. The FMSB supports the proposed guidance and thinks it a giant step forward.  Read the letter. 

AGA's Citizen-Centric Government Reporting Initiative—This initiative encourages governments to produce and publish an annual ‘state of the government’ report that is no more than four pages long. Learn more.

 

Attention Government Employers! AGA’s NEW Group Membership Can Lead to Significant Cost Savings on Your Staff’s Training and Development! Click here to learn more.

Current News

NEW! Registration Now Open for the Second Annual AGA Government Finance Case Challenge for College Students—Student teams will collaboratively analyze and offer a written response to a case centered on how a U.S. city government implements a performance management system. The registration deadline is Oct. 3, 2008. This is a free online competition open to all college undergraduate students. Learn more.

NEW! I.O.U.S.A.: Live Presentation Set with Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson, David Walker
Fathom and Roadside Attractions present I.O.U.S.A.: Live with Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson and David Walker, which will be presented in about 400 movie theatres nationwide on Thursday, Aug. 21. This event will include the critically acclaimed documentary, I.O.U.S.A., and a live discussion, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, about America's economic crisis and what we can do to change course.  Learn more. 

AGA Annual CFO Survey - Financial Management: Providing a Foundation for Transition:  In 2008, 239 federal financial management executives and managers took part in the 12th annual chief financial officer (CFO) survey sponsored by AGA and conducted by Grant Thornton LLP. Survey respondents are proud of the financial management and internal control successes of the past 7 years. However, they say that the government must head in a new direction to achieve even greater gains. Future improvements need to focus on how the CFO can add value to missions and programs, not just comply with regulations. Read the report.

AGA Publishes Its 2008 Member Centric Report
AGA is proud to distribute its 2008 Citizen-Centric Report to our Members. We hope you find this succinct, four-page report on the
progress of our Association over the past year to be informative. It remains a work-in-progress, and we invite your feedback so our future  reports will be even more useful to our members and other stakeholders. AGA is promoting the use of similar four-page
Citizen-Centric Reports by entities at all levels of government. Read the AGA Member Centric Report. Contact Susan Fritzlen with feedback.