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Top News
Today on the AGA
Web Blog:
Efforts and Accomplishments in Communicating with the Citizenry
—By: Judith Harris, DBA, CMA, Karen
McKenzie, Ph.D., CGFM, CPA, and Randall Rentfro, Ph.D., CPA,
CMA.
Read more.
Survey: State
Salary Growth Trails 2007 —Elizabeth Daigneau, Governing.
Read more.
South Carolina Adopts Citizen-Centric Approach to Financial Reporting
—AccountingWEB.
Read more.
NEW! AGA
Is Hiring!—AGA seeks to fill
the following positions at the National Office located in
Alexandria, VA:
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Education Manager
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Membership Manager
If you would like to become a part of our team, contact
Susan Fritzlen.
NEW! AGA
Seeks IT Intern—The Association
of Government Accountants (AGA), the thought leader for
government financial management, seeks an IT Intern who can help
attract a younger generation through different electronic
avenues like Facebook, YouTube, and other social networking
sites.
Learn
more.
Register Now for AGA Audio Conferences!
- Sept. 10:
Fraud Prevention and Detection
- Oct. 15:
Results of AGA's Research on Performance
Based Management Reporting
- 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.
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.
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Current News
 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.
2008
CEAR Guidelines Now Available—The
Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting (CEAR)
guidelines for 2008
(including the Pilot Program) are now available.
View
the information.
 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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