| Session Time |
Session Title/Description |
Speakers |
| 6:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. |
Registration |
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| 7:00 - 8:15 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors |
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8:15 - 9:05 a.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Financial Management Reform at DoD
Hear about continuing management challenges and
new approaches to them at the largest federal
agency.
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Dov Zakheim, Under Secretary (Comptroller) and
Chief Financial Officer, DoD
Convener: Catherine A. Nelson, CGFM,
Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
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9:05 - 9:55 a.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Mega-Merger: The Department of Homeland Security
You think you have problems? Try merging 22 federal
organizations into one.
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Bruce Carnes, Ph.D., Chief Financial Officer,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Convener: John Hummel, CGFM, CPA, Partner and
Federal National Industry Director, KPMG LLP
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| 9:55 - 10:40 a.m. |
Break with Exhibitors |
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10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Rethinking Human Capital
A changing government environment requires us to
rethink how we recruit, use, and retain our human
capital. What options are available to federal
organizations now? What options should we consider?
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Ron Sanders,
Associate Director for Human Resources Program
Development, OPM
Convener: Charles J. Maloney Jr., CGFM,
Executive Director, Government Financial Management
Solutions, Management Concepts
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10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Transforming Service Delivery - The Private Sector
Model
Learn about the challenges in transforming the
delivery of services to customers. The session
explores the dynamic changes that are taking place
in the private sector that have applicability to the
public sector in delivering services in
fundamentally new ways. The managing partner of IBM
Global Services shares her views on the challenges
facing our community in enhancing and furthering the
innovation already going on in the public sector.
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Virginia M.
Rometty, Managing Partner, Business Consulting
Services, IBM Global Services
Convener: C. Morgan Kinghorn Jr., CGFM,
Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services
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10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: A&AU
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"T" for Two: Transparency and Timeliness in
Financial Reporting
Government reporting requirements are getting
longer, not shorter. Citizens want performance
reporting from their state and local governments.
Federal agencies must soon report in 45 days. How
are the standards setters reacting to these issues?
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David R. Bean,
CPA, Director of Research and Technical
Activities, GASB
David Mosso, CPA, Chairman, Federal
Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
Convener: Bonnie L.
Brown, CGFM, Partner, Finance Transformation Lead,
IBM Business Consulting Services
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10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Stakeholders, Performance Measures and Stewardship
Accountability
Twenty-first century organizations have myriad
stakeholders with varying expectations of agency
managers for financial transparency, accountability
and prompt reporting of results.
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Steven O. App, CGFM, Deputy to the Chairman & Chief Financial
Officer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC)
Convener: J. Russell Cherry, CGFM, Associate
Director, Decision Support Branch, Accounting and
Reporting, Division of Finance, FDIC
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11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Luncheon and Awards Presentation |
Sponsored by:
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12:25 - 1:15 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Women in Leadership
Hear from the Navy's highest-ranking African
American woman.
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Capt. Gail Harris, Systems Analyst, Lockheed Martin, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Convener: David Clark, CGFM, CPA, Director,
Financial Management and Assurance, GAO
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M |
Townhall 5: The Retirement Wave - Crisis or
Opportunity?
While this is a period of discomfort, it does not
have to be a crisis. Creative solutions, proposals
and innovative, provocative ideas are explored with
participants. How can we best exploit human capital
flexibilities?
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Karen Alderman,
CGFM, Executive Director, JFMIP
>Marta Brito Perez,
Associate Director, Human Capital Leadership and
Merit System Accountability, OPM
Convener: Cleve Pillifant, Director of Consulting Services,
Management Concepts
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: F
Field of Study: M
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Town Hall 6: Financial Systems for the Department of
Homeland Security - Round Pegs and Square Holes
This session examines the complex technical and
functional issues involved in merging 22 disparate
agencies into one U.S. Department of Homeland
Security. This session presents views and issues
from the perspectives of representatives from three
agencies that are being merged into the Department
of Homeland Security. Panel members uncover and
discuss the many infrastructure and cultural issues
that are currently being considered as this critical
organization goes through a number of formative
stages in its development.
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Jo Ellen Cohen,
CGFM, CPA, Executive Director Financial
Operations/Deputy Chief Financial Officer, U.S.
Customs Service
Lisa Lewis,
Assistance Officer, Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA)
Capt. Larry R.
White, CGFM, CPA, CMA, CFM, Chief, Office of
Financial Systems, United States Coast Guard
Convener: Lester Diamond, Assistant Director,
Information Technology, GAO
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: A&AU
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Town Hall 7: Fright Night: Reviewing Single Audit
Workpapers
Single audit quality is important, so let's learn
from some of the more blatant abuses of the
standards.
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Andrew J. “Drew”
Blossom, CPA, Partner and National
Industry Director, State and Local Governments, KPMG
LLP
Leonard Hecht,
CPA, Technical Manager, Professional Ethics
Division, American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants
Convener: George A. Rippey, CGFM, CPA, Office of the
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Education
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Town Hall 8: Power Benchmarking for Results
Open discussion on the use of benchmarks to measure
operational performance of a finance and accounting
operation. Topics include getting started, issues of
comparing public/private sector needs, flexibility
of application, awareness of false signals, etc.
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Kamal Solaiman,
Director, The Hackett Group
Dale W. Sopper,
CGFM, Chief Financial Officer, Social Security
Administration (SSA)
Convener: Kirsten Crysel, IBM Business
Consulting Services
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: F
Field of Study: M
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Are Your Legacy Systems JFMIP Compliant?
OMB's Circular A-127
requires that all core financial systems used by
federal agencies comply with the requirements of the
Joint Financial Management Improvement
Program. The U.S. Department of Commerce models its
legacy systems tests after the JFMIP core compliance
test given every three years to commercial software
vendors.
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James Taylor,
Deputy Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of
Commerce
Convener: Ronald Rhodes, CGFM, Program Manager, LMI
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: PD
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Personal Renaissance: Skills and Attributes for the
21st Century Workforce
Identify skills financial managers will need to
acquire to be relevant and valuable five years from
now. Hear advice on how to assess current skills and
develop the skills and attributes necessary for your
next job. This session is about working on yourself!
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Leon Young,
Independent Consultant
Convener: Lee Jones, U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: F
Field of Study: A&AU
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Why Should Federal Agencies Have Audit Committees?
And What Rules Should They Follow?
Hear about federal audit advisory committee best
practices and get the latest guidelines on their
make-up, scope and reporting relationships. All who
attend receive a free booklet with guidelines on
federal agency audit committees.
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Gaston L. Gianni
Jr., CGAP, Inspector General, FDIC
Gila J. Bronner, CPA, Chair of the Audit
Committee, U.S. Holocaust War Museum, President and
CEO, Bronner Group, LLC
John Hummel, CGFM, CPA, Partner and Federal
National Industry Director, KPMG LLP
Convener:
Christine C. Boesz, Ph.D., Inspector General,
National Science Foundation
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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How To Identify and
(Hopefully) Control Erroneous Payments
Are we managing the problem of erroneous payments
cost effectively? When errors occur, do we follow up
and collect, and at what cost? How can we avoid
problems on the front end, and still pay promptly?
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Steven L.
Schaeffer, Assistant Inspector General for Audit,
Office of the Inspector General, SSA
Robert Shea,
OMB
Convener: Bonnie Kind, CGFM, National
Security Agency
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| 2:45 - 3:25 p.m. |
Break with Exhibitors |
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3:25 - 4:15 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Organizational Renaissance: Managing the 21st
Century Work Force
Learn how to manage the new work force. Develop
your staff for their next job, even if
it means they won't be working for you!
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Susan Cobb, Independent Consultant
Convener: Charles Martin, Jr., CAE,
Consultant, Management Concepts
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3:25 - 4:15 p.m.
Audience: S&L
Field of Study: M
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Performance Management in Austin, TX
Learn about management objectives and performance
tools in place in Austin, and a case study of a
results-based management process that was installed
for the Austin Fire Department.
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C'Anne Daugherty, Assistant City Auditor,
City of Austin, TX
Convener: J. Russell Cherry, CGFM, Associate
Director, Decision Support Branch, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
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3:25 - 4:15 p.m.
Audience: F
Field of Study: M
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OMB Super Circular
OMB is revising and
consolidating many of the favorite circulars. How will this change the way
federal agencies address requirements. How will this
affect OMB's relationships with stakeholders?
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Joseph L. Kull, CGFM, CPA, Deputy Controller,
Office of Federal Financial Management, OMB
Convener: Greg James, CPA, Acting Associate
Deputy CFO, U.S. Department of Labor
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3:25 - 4:15
p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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HR Studies JFMIP/NAPA
What does the work
force of the 21st century look like? What are the
effects and possible solutions for the financial
management community? JFMIP and NAPA share the
results of their recently completed studies addressing this
contemporary issue.
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Karen C.
Alderman, CGFM, Executive Director, JFMIP
Stewart Remer,
Senior Consultant, Center for Human Resource
Management, NAPA
Convener: Charles J. Maloney Jr., CGFM,
Executive Director, Government Financial Management
Solutions, Management Concepts
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3:25 - 4:15
p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: M
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Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
What is PART, and
how does it affect what I do and where I work? What
is the PART Advisory Council, and what has it done?
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Irwin T. David,
CGFM, CPA, Chief Financial Officer/Chief
Administrative Officer, NOAA's National Weather
Service
Convener:>
Owen Barwell, Senior Financial Advisor,
Office of the Administrator, NASA
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3:25 - 4:15p.m.
Audience: F
Field of Study: M
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Financial Systems Implementation & Testing
This year the Joint Financial Management Improvement
Program (JFMIP) will undertake another round of
vendor testing and certification. Over the past
several years the JFMIP Certification Team has
improved and expanded the vendor test requirements.
This session examines the role of JFMIP, the testing
process and discusses what is expected of software
vendors today. This session provides a view from
JFMIP as well as perspectives from one of the lead
software providers.
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Stephen R.
Balsam, CPA, Senior Project Officer, JFMIP
Wayne Bobby, CGFM,
Director, Federal Financial Solutions, Oracle
Convener: Ronald Rhodes, CGFM, LMI
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3:25 - 4:15 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: A&AU
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FASAB/GASB Update
Learn about all of
the new and expected accounting and reporting
standards of the state and federal standards-setting
bodies.
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David R. Bean,
CPA, Director of Research and Technical
Activities, GASB
Wendy M. Comes, CGFM, CPA, Executive
Director, FASAB
Convener: Karyn Molnar, CGFM, CPA, Partner, KPMG LLP
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3:25 - 4:15 p.m.
Audience: All
Field of Study: A&AU
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New Yellow Book
Other than independence, the new Yellow Book
addresses many issues that auditors must understand.
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Marcia Buchanan,
CGFM, CPA, Assistant Director, Financial
Management and Assurance, GAO
Sam McCall, CGFM,
CPA, City Auditor, City of Tallahassee, FL
Convener: Jeanette Franzel, CGFM, CPA,
Director, Financial Management and Assurance, GAO
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Plenary Session - The Future of
Standard of Standard Setting
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Mr. Tom L. Allen, Chairman
GASB, Financial Accounting Foundation
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