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Governmental Accounting and Auditing Conference
Length: 16 hours
CPE Credits: 16
Conference Agenda
8:00-9:40 a.m. • Benefits of GAAP Reporting (General and Webcast Session) • Lisa R. Parker, CPA and Frank W. Crawford, CPA
Complying with GAAP can be a daunting task for small- and medium-sized governments. Find out how you can benefit.
David L. Cotton, CPA, CFE, CGFM, is the chairman of Cotton & Company LLP, CPAs, headquartered in Alexandria, Va. The firm assists federal and state agencies, inspectors general, and government grantees and contractors with a variety of government program-related assurance and advisory services. Cotton has served on GAO’s Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards and presently teaches Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting at George Washington University.
Frank W. Crawford
CPA
Frank W. Crawford, CPA, is president of Crawford & Associates, P.C., in Okla. City, Okla. The firm specializes in providing auditing, consulting and accounting services solely to governmental entities and is a member of the AICPA’s Government Audit Quality Center. Crawford is currently the chairman of the AICPA National Governmental Accounting and Conference Planning Task Force and recently completed a four-year term as chairman of the AICPA Government Expert Panel. He is also the chairman of the OSCPA’s GAA Committee.
Janice L. Gray
CPA, CVA
Janice L. Gray, CPA, CVA, is managing partner and the accounting and auditing partner of Gray, Blodgett & Company, PLLC, in Norman, Okla. Gray is currently the regulator representative to the AICPA’s Peer Review Board and is serving on the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy Compliance Assurance Review Committee. She is also serving her second five-year term on the Oklahoma Board of Accountancy.
Joe Stimac
CEO
Joe Stimac is the founder and CEO of Thales Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm that provides innovative software and services for local governments. Stimac has developed software to meet the financial reporting needs of local governments, including CAFR-Online, a web application enabling local governments to compile their annual financial reports or CAFR.
Josh Richards
CPA
Josh Richards, CPA, is an audit manager for the State Agency Audit Division with the Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector’s Office. Richards has worked for the State Auditor and Inspector’s Office since 2001, auditing multiple state agencies including: the Department of Human Services; Health Care Authority; Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; Department of Rehabilitation Services; Tax Commission; and the Military Department.
Lisa R. Parker
CPA
Lisa R. Parker, CPA, is a project manager with GASB. She is the lead project manager on both the service efforts and accomplishment reporting project and the economic condition reporting.
Michael A. Crawford
CPA
Michael A. Crawford, CPA, is chairman emeritus of Crawford & Associates, P.C., in Okla. City, Okla. He is a past president of the Oklahoma Society of CPAs, an inductee into the Oklahoma Accounting Hall of Fame and is a past Vice-Chairman of the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC), the national advisory group to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Crawford has authored a number of professional guides and practice aids on governmental accounting, auditing and ethics for the AICPA and CCH.
Randy C. Roberts
CPA, CGFM
Randy C. Roberts, CPA, CGFM, is the professional practice director for the Arizona Office of the Auditor General. Roberts is responsible for providing technical research and assistance and performing quality assurance reviews. His audit and audit-related experience, all with the Auditor General’s office, includes most levels of government: the state, universities, counties, community colleges, hospitals, health plans and school districts.
Steve Burrage
CPA
Steve Burrage, CPA, was appointed Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector by Governor Henry on July 10, 2008. He is only the third CPA in state history to hold this office. Burrage has more than 30 years of previous accounting and banking experience. He is building a reputation that fraud, waste and abuse will not be tolerated within the state government.
