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Top News
AGA
Daily Blog Entry:
City of Saco, Maine’s Experience with Citizen Centric Reporting
- Lisa Parker, CPA,
project manager, Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB);
former finance director, City of Saco, Maine. Read more.
The Pentagon's $1
Trillion Problem
—Scot Paltrow, Portfolio.com.
Read more.
OMB’s Johnson Cites Progress on Security Clearances—David
Hubler, Washington Technology.
Read more.
NEW!
AGA Training
Audio Conferences —-
»The Anatomy of
Ethical Slips in Government,
May 14, 2008, 2 CPE Hours Available!
Learn more.
» Integrating Cost and Performance in Financial Reporting,
June 18, 2008, 2 CPE Hours Available!
Learn more.
AGA's AFGA Announces the Mortimer A. Dittenhofer
Dissertation Award Application Deadline—The
Academy for Government Accountability (AFGA) has
established the Mortimer A. Dittenhofer Dissertation Award
to provide up to $12,500 to support research of selected
doctoral candidates whose dissertation is focusing on the
field of government financial management or accountability
or auditing. Deadline for submission of the RFP is
June 13, 2008.
Learn more.
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.
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Current News
FMSB Issues
Comment Letter to the International Federation of Accountants—The
FMSB has commented on the proposed revised and redrafted
International Standard on Auditing,
ISA 402, Audit Considerations
Relating to an Entity Using A Third Party Service Organization.
Read more.
 SPECIAL CGFM
OPPORTUNITY! Sign up for AGA's Intensive Review Course and
take the CGFM Examinations before the Professional
Development Conference in Atlanta.
The Intensive Review Course will take
place on July 24-25, 2008. The CGFM Examinations will be
offered by appointment only on July 26-27, 2008.
Learn more.
 AGA
Research Report Released: 21st Century Federal Financial
Managers - A New Mix of Skills and Educational Levels?
Recognizing the human capital challenges facing government
agencies, the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), with
support from its Corporate Partner Advisory Group partner
Management Concepts, decided to conduct a study to provide a
snapshot in the year 2007 of how federal financial management
leaders and mid-level professionals are framing the challenges
facing them.
Read the report.
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