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NASACT ANNUAL CONFERENCE |
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| General Session #1 – The Key to Organizational Success: Understanding Your People |
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Gallup Presentation |
| Concurrent Session #1 – Government Accounting Standards Board: An Update on Current Activities |
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Robert Attmore, Chair, GASB |
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David Bean, Director of Research, GASB |
| Concurrent Session #2 – Electronic Receipts and Payments I: New Development and Approaches |
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Martin Johnson, Director, Commercial Solutions, Public Sector, VISA USA |
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Making the Case for Electronifying Your Check Deposits
Kristine Oberg, Vice-President and Product Development Manager, U.S. Bank |
| Concurrent Session #3 – Outsourcing Governmental Functions: Two Successful Cases in Nevada |
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Maximizing the Recovery of Delinquent Receivables
Tim Bauer, Executive Vice President, Business Development and Portfolio Acquisition, Outsourcing Solutions, Inc. |
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Is Your State Funding Terrorism?
Nik Divakaruni, Account Executive - State Government Programs, LexisNexis |
| Concurrent Session #4 – Medicaid: The Escalating Problem for States |
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Medicaid Makeover: Six Tough (and Unavoidable) Choices on the Road to Reform
Matt Kouri, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting |
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Medicaid Fraud and Abuse – Significant Revenue Sources
Juan Penalosa, Strategy and Change Leader, Fraud and Abuse Practice, IBM |
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Concurrent Session #5 – ERP: Things to Consider Before You Take the Leap |
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Diana Jones Ritter, Executive Deputy Comptroller (NY) |
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Lynn Vellinga, State Accounting Officer (GA) |
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Concurrent Session #6 – Auditing Update: New Standards from GAO and AICPA |
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Marcia Buchanan, Assistant Director, U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| Concurrent Session #7 – Trends in Information Technology |
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Bernie McMonagle, Associate Director of Vertical Data Sales, Verizon Wireless |
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Mark Moorman, Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer, SAS |
| Concurrent Session #8 – New GASB Statements: From a Preparer’s Perspective |
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Tim Becker , Financial Reporting Section Manager, Office of State Comptroller (MI) |
| Concurrent Session #9 – A Better Way to Assess Risk and Return: A Discussion on the Latest Innovation in Benchmarks for the Pension Community |
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Ronnee Ades, Senior Director, Dow Jones Indexes |
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Concurrent Session #10 – NASACT’s Benchmarking Project: Can State Governments Get to World-Class? |
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Jeffrey Rosengard, Senior Vice President, The Hackett Group |
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Jan Sylvis, Chief of Accounts (TN) |
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D. Clark Partridge, State Comptroller (AZ) |
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Concurrent Session #11 – New Electronic Payment Methods |
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Credit Push
Samantha Carrier, Director, e-Commerce Group, NACHA |
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PINless Debit vs. Credit Card: Why is One More Acceptable Than the Other? What's Next?
Ross Guyer, Senior Deputy State Auditor (WV) |
| Concurrent Session #12 – Shared Services and Outsourcing: Models for the Future in Texas |
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Outsourcing IT Services
Larry Olson, Chief Technology Officer (TX) |
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Texas Online
Gary Miglicco, Vice President, BearingPoint |
| General Session #2 – The Fiscal Challenge Facing the United States |
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Ed Lorenzen, Policy Director, Concord Coalition |
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Alison Acosta Fraser, Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute or Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation |
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Joe Minarik, Senior Vice President, Committee for Economic Development |
| Concurrent Session #13 – OPEB: Measuring the Liability |
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Thomas Vicente, Vice President, AON Consulting, Inc. |
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Jim Rizzo, Senior Consultant and Actuary, Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company |
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Concurrent Session #14 – A New Way of Budgeting |
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Richard Brown, Director, Department of Planning and Budget (VA) |
| Concurrent Session #15 – Improving Financial Management in State Government |
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Accounts Payable Transformation
William Kilmartin, Strategic Alliance Director, Accenture |
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Tax Benefits Funding Partnership Project
Linda Foster, Assistant Tax Commissioner, Office of Technology, and Technical Project Manager, Department of Taxation (VA)
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| Concurrent Session #16 – Sarbanes-Oxley: Has it Worked in the Private Sector and Will it Work in the Public Sector? |
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Nancy Valley, Partner, KPMG |
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Adam Goldberg, Branch Chief, Financial Integrity and Analysis, U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
| Concurrent Session #17 – Economic Trends and Emerging Issues |
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State Budgets: Crisis is Over, Tough Times Still Ahead
Ernie Goss, Ph.D., MacAllister Chair & Professor of Economics, Creighton University |
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Trends in State Bond Ratings
Robin Prunty, Director, State & Local Government Group of Public Finance, Standard & Poor’s |
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Concurrent Session #18 – Faster Financial Reporting: The Federal Case for Success |
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Jim Sturgill, Assistant Commissioner for Government-Wide Accounting, Financial Management Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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Concurrent Session #19 – ERP Systems in State Government: A Beginning, Not an End |
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Harvey Eckert, Commonwealth Comptroller (PA) |
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Milford Sprecher, Business Development Manager, SAP |
| Concurrent Session #20 – Pension Plans of the Future: Defined Benefits vs. Defined Contributions |
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Keith Brainard, Research Director, National Association of State Retirement Administrators |
| Concurrent Session #21 – Crisis Management: Ensuring Continuity of Service During Time of Disaster |
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Jay Collins, Chief Executive Officer, Public Sector Group, Citigroup |
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Steve Herndon, Senior Vice President of Government Global Treasury Services, Bank of America |
| Concurrent Session #22 – Electronic Receipts and Payments II: New Development and Approaches |
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Jim Reed, Vice President, Public Sector Acceptance, MasterCard |
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Gregory Gentile, Executive Vice President, Govolution LLC |
| Concurrent Session #23 – OMB Update |
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Adam Goldberg, Branch Chief, Financial Integrity & Analysis, U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
| Concurrent Session #24 – OPEB Liabilities: Beyond the Debits and Credits |
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Jason Dickerson, Senior Fiscal and Policy Analyst, Legislative Analyst Office, CA |
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Barbara Lloyd, Senior Vice President , Lehman Brothers |
| General Session #4 – Leadership Stories from Katrina |
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Mick Bullock, Executive Assistant to the State Auditor (MS) |
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Daryl Purpera, Assistant Legislative Auditor (LA) |
