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Calendar of
Upcoming Events
Monthly
Networking Events
Nov. 4, 2008 – John
Cox, Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Housing &
Urban Development (limited spots left).
Dec. 9, 2008 – Doug
Webster, DBA, CGFM, Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department
of Labor (limited spots left).
Jan. 6, 2009—TBA
Feb. 10, 2009—TBA
March 10, 2009—TBA
April 7, 2009—TBA
May 5, 2009—TBA
The dinners are held from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m.
at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Arlington, VA (Pentagon City Mall). The
cost is $175 per participant, which covers cocktails, dinner and valet
parking. One important thing to remember—NO selling is
permitted at these events. If you are interested in attending,
please complete the attached Dinner Reservation Form and
submit it to Susan Fritzlen.
Each dinner is limited to 18 Corporate Partners, or only one
per Corporate Partner organization. Reservations for each
dinner are selected on a first-come, first-served basis AND
previous attendance at dinners. Once the attendees are
selected from the returned reservation forms, we will notify those who
are confirmed for a seat and those who are placed on the waiting
list.
Be Our Guest on
the AGA Blog
Does your organization have an innovative
new idea or strategy you'd like to share with the government
accountability community? Have you noticed a trend in your engagements
that might be of interest to others? Why not take a day on the AGA Blog
to discuss it? What does a day on the blog entail?
- A 500-750-word essay on a topic of your
choice submitted by noon the day before your appearance or earlier if
possible.
- The essay should end with a question to
encourage readers to post replies.
- You should be somewhat available during your
"day" on the blog to reply a few times to comments as they are made.
- We ask that you publicize your appearance to
your professional colleagues and friends to help us draw traffic to the
site, which is located at http://aga.typepad.com/aga/ if
you wish to check it out. We suggest you wait until the morning your
blog is live to publicize it since people tend to react more favorably
to a live blog.
Interested? We are now booking into November.
Contact Marie Force, communications
director, to schedule your day on the AGA Blog!
Did You Know? Frequently Asked Questions about the AGA
Corporate Partner Program (CPAG)
Click here to find the answers to questions such
as: What is the AGA Corporate Partner Program and why was it
established?; What is the CPAG mission?; How does the CPAG operate?; Is
the CPAG covered in the AGA bylaws?; How is the CPAG governed?; Who
develops the technical programs for the major AGA conferences and
events?; How are AGA Professional Development Conference (PDC) program
planning committee members selected?
Corporate Partner Advisory
Group Leadership
Chair
Hank Steininger, CGFM
Managing Partner, Global Public Sector,
Grant Thornton LLP
hsteininger@gt.com
703.837.4410
Vice Chair
John Cherbini, CGFM
KPMG LLP
jcherbini@kpmg.com
202.533.4339
Executive Director
Relmond Van Daniker, DBA, CPA
rvandaniker@agacgfm.org
703.684.6931, ext 312
Deputy Executive Director of
Programs
Susan Fritzlen
sfritzlen@agacgfm.org
703.684.6931, ext 314
Director of Research
Anna D. Gowans Miller, MBA, CPA
amiller@agacgfm.org
703.684.6931, ext 313
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October
2008 , Volume 6, Issue 5
NLC Marketing Opportunities Now Available—Why wait? Sign
up for your booth, sponsorship and advertising today
Maximize your visibility, make new
contacts and solidify relationships with current customers by
showcasing your newest products, services and solutions at AGA’s
national conferences.
Next up is the National Leadership
Conference (NLC) set for Feb. 19–20, 2009 in
Washington, D.C. The conference offers face-to-face interaction with
more than 700 top-level, hard-to-reach government financial management
and accountability leaders. As an exhibitor, sponsor or advertiser,
you’ll have prime opportunities to network with existing clients and
bring your message to the attention of leading government executives
and decision-makers. The NLC Exhibit Hall sells out every year—sign up
today to secure your place at this important event.
The Marketing Opportunities Catalog also
includes information about newsletter and magazine advertising. As an
AGA Corporate Partner, you receive all of this information in advance
of nonpartners. Download the order form.
Registration Now Open for the
National Leadership Conference—Corporate Partners Receive
Member Rates
All staff of AGA Corporate Partner organizations receive the member
registration rate for AGA national conferences. Register online now!
Corporate
Partner Quarterly All Hands Business Meeting
Please reserve Nov. 11 to attend an
important quarterly Corporate Partner business meeting to be held at
the Tower Club in Tyson's
Corner, VA from 3 to 5 p.m. We need
every Corporate Partner organization to send at least one
representative to this meeting. This is an excellent
opportunity for you to network with other Corporate Partner
representatives and learn firsthand how to maximize your organization’s
partnership with AGA. Please RSVP to Susan Fritzlen or 800.AGA.7211,
ext 314. Make the most out of your partnership with AGA and get
involved.
Annual Corporate Partner Business Meeting at the 2009
PDC in New Orleans—June 21–24, 2009
Each year at the Professional
Development Conference & Exposition, AGA holds a business meeting of
the Corporate Partners on Monday morning. We have heard requests to
move this hour-long meeting to Sunday afternoon so as not to interfere
with networking and other sessions on Monday. We suggest 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Sunday. (The opening conference reception starts at 5 p.m.) We would
like to hear from you if this is a good time. Please send your feedback
to Susan Fritzlen.
CPAG Research Projects Update
XBRL and Public Sector Financial Reporting—Standardized
Business Reporting: The Oregon CAFR Project
This research studied the benefits of developing and using an
XBRL taxonomy to tag data in a state’s Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report (CAFR). This project marks the first actual pilot implementation
of XBRL in the governmental sector. The report provides a brief
technical overview of XBRL as well as graphics demonstrating the
process of converting the CAFR data into XBRL, creating the instance
document and rendering the instance document into a readable
conventional file format. Read the report.
In other research news, a
new project has begun: Procuring the Right Audit Oversight Tool to Meet
Your Needs. This research project will address the range of potential
audit engagements and describe how they can be used to meet different
requirements. The final product will be a procurement guide to assist
agencies in determining the best type of audit or oversight tool to
meet their requirements. The guide will provide clarity to federal
program and procurement officials as to what the terms “audit and
adherence to Government Auditing Standards” mean and how audits differ
from nonaudit services to help better inform the procurement process
for audit services. The guide will also describe restrictions on the
type of organizations that can provide audit services under Government
Auditing Standards. The sponsor is Kearney and Co., and the researcher
is AGA Past National President Jeffrey C. Steinhoff, CGFM, CPA,
CFE.
Corporate Partner CSC is once again
sponsoring an IT survey for AGA, the Trends in
Technology research report. Work will begin later this
year and the report should be ready for the New Orleans PDC. The new
report will touch on past topics, but spend more time on issues that
can affect functional government managers on the federal, state and
local level. Issues that may be covered in the report include Web 2.0
as it leads to Web 3.0; Pictometry; improving data quality and
information integrity; aligning business and IT strategy; E-Verify and
other security issues; GreenIT and cost savings; business intelligence
software; and CRM. The emphasis will be on topics that are on the
cutting edge but have the potential to make a manager’s work much
easier. For example, Pictometry can help localities maximize existing
tax revenues.
If you would like to sponsor a research
project and/or have a good idea for a project, AGA wants to hear from
you. Please contact Anna
Miller, AGA’s Director of Research.
Monthly AGA Audio Conferences Bring the Training to
You
All you need is a phone line to
access the training. Bring in as many individuals as will fit into your
room, all for one low price. AGA audio conferences are two-hour
programs that cover hot topics. The Nov. 12 audio conference is titled,
Understanding the Importance of Soft Controls
in Improving Operations.
The Dec. 10 audio
conference covers 21st Century Financial Managers: A New Mix of
Skills and Education Levels.
Exclusive Offer to Corporate
Partners—Register five or more of your offices for any of the
upcoming audio conferences and you will receive a 20 percent discount
off the early registration rate. That's right, pay only $200 per site
instead of $249. And remember, attendance is unlimited and 2 CPE hours
are available for each participant. You cannot find a more
cost-effective way of providing staff training with little or no travel
involved. For questions regarding these programs, contact Raymond Harris, Director of
Chapter Operations, at 800.AGA.7211, ext. 339. Questions regarding
registration should be directed to Maria Lucas, Meetings Specialist,
ext. 308.
AGA Onsite Classroom-Style Training Courses Also Bring
the Training To You
AGA introduces courses to meet your staff’s government financial
management training and education needs. Each course is taught by an
experienced professional at your office. Upon completing the courses,
participants are awarded 8 to 16 CPEs depending on the length of the
course.
- Federal Financial
Management—This two-day course is an introduction to federal
financial management for entry-level or experienced accountants and
financial analysts who are working in the federal accounting and
financial management area. It also can serve as a refresher for
accountants who may be returning to federal client service. The course
covers federal financial management legislation; the federal budget
process, phases and execution; proprietary and budgetary accounting;
the role of the central agencies; financial systems; and audited
financial statements.
- Contract
Auditing—This two-day course provides participants with an
awareness of audit and financial oversight issues related to
construction, equipment and engineering contracts awarded by government
entities. The course focuses on the purpose of contract auditing, types
of contracts, audit clauses to include in contracts, types of audits
included in contract audit oversight, development of audit programs and
internal audit, accounting and financial issues involved with
procurements.
- Grants
Management—Government program administrators and financial
managers are faced with the challenge of becoming more knowledgeable
about ever-changing rules and regulations and requirements; providing
assistance to managers and leaders; preparing financial and related
reports; managing grants and awards; and dealing with compliance
issues, among many other tasks. This one-day course provides a general
overview of grants management, including preparation, review, and
submittal of proposals; negotiation and acceptance of grants;
post-award financial and administrative management; closeout and audit;
and relevant compliance issues.
For more details about these and other
AGA-sponsored training courses, including pricing and availability,
please contact Joe
Jozefczyk, AGA Director of Education, or Bekka Gehrmann, AGA Education
Manager, or call 800.AGA.7211.
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