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NOTE:
The AGA National Office
will be closed on Monday, Oct. 13th in
observance of
Columbus Day.
Today
on the AGA Web Blog:
Hands
Free? Or Security Free? You Decide
—
Mark Abraham,
Information Technology Specialist II, Network Security Unit,
Division of State Government Accountability, Office of the State
Comptroller, State of New York.
Read more.
Accounting Board Adopts Guidance to
Ease Crisis—John Christofferson, Associated Press.
Read more.
Plan
B: Flood Banks with Cash —Floyd Norris, The New York
Times.
Read more.
Rampant Medicare Fraud Suspected in Miami —Julie Appleby,
USA Today.
Read more.
FMSB Issues Comment Letters to
GASB and IFAC—The
FMSB has issued two comment letters, one to the Professional
Accountants in Business Committee of the International
Federation of Accountants on its proposed Good Practice Guidance
document, Costing to Drive
Organizational Performance, and the other to the
Governmental Accounting Standards Board on its proposed
Technical Bulletin on
Determining the Annual Required Contribution (ARC) Adjustment
for Postemployment Benefits.
Read more.
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 An AGA
Audio Conference!
Oct. 15:
Results of AGA's Research on Performance Based Management
Reporting
Nov. 12:
Understanding the Importance of Soft Controls in Improving
Operations
View
the 2008-2009 Audio Conference Schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions About AGA Conferences and CPAG
—The AGA
National Office has collected and answered a group of questions
about conference programs and also about our Corporate Partner
Advisory Group (CPAG) program.
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 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.
17, 2008. This is a free online competition open to all college
undergraduate students.
Learn more.
NEW!
AGA Research Report:
XBRL and Public Sector Financial Reporting —
AGA has long
 supported
the use of XBRL to potentially improve the transparency and
analysis in government financial reporting. Accordingly, AGA
decided to implement a research project to study the benefits of
developing and using an XBRL-taxonomy to tag data in a state’s
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, or CAFR. It was decided
that the project should focus on one state pilot, with the
intent that the results would prove to be
helpful to other states contemplating a similar effort.
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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