| Wednesday, March 21 |
| 8:20 - 10:00 a.m. |
Governmental Accounting: Update and Preparing for OPEB |
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GASB Update |
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Bob Attmore, chairman, GASB |
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Preparing for OPEB |
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Eric Berman, deputy comptroller, MA |
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Ira Kastrinsky, director, Deloitte Consulting |
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| 10:20 - 12:00 noon |
Adding value through technology |
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Getting additional value from ERP systems: beyond initial implementation |
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Don Edmiston, senior government advisor, BearingPoint |
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Will Greer, principal, State and Local Government, SAP |
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Harvey Eckert, commonwealth comptroller, PA |
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XBRL: the promise being realized |
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Martin Henning, deputy director, Research and Insurance, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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Don Geiger, management analyst, Office of the Deputy CFO, Financial Systems Integration, US Department of Treasury |
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| 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Alabama Life and Politics - On the Light Side |
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Alva Lambert, executive director, State Health Planning Agency, AL, and local humorist |
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| 1:20 - 2:10 p.m. |
Keynote address: ERP Management at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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Donna Smith, manager of the Integrated Enterprise Management Program business precess and application support office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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Chris Galusha, deputy project manager and integration manager, Accenture |
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| 2:10 - 3:00 p.m. |
New Projects in State Comptrollers' Offices |
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Innovation with a system upgrade |
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Ed Ross, controller, KY |
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An electronic invoicing system |
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Leila Malatesta, director of financial management, Department of Finance and Administration, MS |
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| Thursday, March 22 |
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Pilot projects old and new |
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Benchmarking: coming of age in state government |
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Jeff Rosengard, senior vice president, Benchmarking Operations, The Hackett Group |
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Trisha Neely, director of accounting, DE |
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Les Shenefelt, state controller, CO |
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Current pilot projects: Federal tax offset in Maryland |
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John Kenney, director, General Accounting Division, MD |
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NACHA's online payment pilot |
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Jaime Hill, director, NACHA
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Bob Childree, state comptroller, AL |
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| 10:20 - 12:00 noon |
Internal Control |
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"Dos and donts" in internal control |
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Jon Gearhart, industry director, public sector, Oracle Corporation |
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Fran Copeland, chief fiscal officer, Department of Public Safety, AL |
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Internal control from the government auditor's perspective |
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Gail Traylor, director, State Audit Division, Office of the Examiner of Public Accounts, AL |
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Andy Gottschalk, partner, KPMG Advisotry Practice |
| 12:00 noon - 1:25 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Reflections on the GASB and State Leadership in Improving Governmental Financial Management |
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Ed Mazur, member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and former state comptroller, VA |