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Top News
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!
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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.
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