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AGA Corporate Partner Advisory Group (CPAG)
Update 76 Partners Strong!
May 7, 2009
www.agacgfm.org
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Meeting Agenda

• CPAG Business Meeting
• CPAG Mission and Role in AGA
• Events and Activities
• Research Projects Update
• Get Involved
• CPAG Presentations
• A Message from AGAs National President
• AGA Update from AGAs Executive Director
• Get to Know Your Fellow Corporate Partner
• Guest Speaker with QA

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I. CPAG Business Meeting
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CPAG Mission Statement
The mission of the CPAG is to bring industry and
government executives together to exchange
information, support professional development,
improve communications and understanding, solve
issues and build partnership and trust, thereby
enhancing AGA's focus on advancing government
accountability.
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Chairman Hank Steininger, CGFM, CPA Managing
Partner, Global Public Sector, Grant Thornton
LLP Vice Chairman John Cherbini, CGFM,
CPA Partner, KPMG LLP Relmond Van Daniker, DBA,
CPA AGA Executive Director Susan Fritzlen AGA
Deputy Executive Director of Programs Anna D.
Gowans Miller, MBA, CPA AGA Director of Research
CPAG Leadership
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Professional Membership Roster May 2009 (42)
KPMG LLP LMI Management Concepts MasterCard Mayer
Hoffman McCann P.C. Microsoft Miracle Systems LLC
MorganFranklin Oracle Potomac Forum Ltd. PwC
LLP Reznick Group SAP Savantage T. Curtis
Company Teradata Unisys VISA Watkins Meegan
Govt Svcs LLC Williams Adley Co
LLP WithumSmithBrown
Accenture Acuity Consulting Inc
NEW! Altum American Appraisal Associates Bank of
America BearingPoint Booz Allen
Hamilton BroadPoint Technologies CACI CGI
Federal Clifton Gunderson LLP Cognos an IBM
Company CSC Deloitte. Delta Solutions
Technologies Ernst Young Federal Management
Systems Inc Graduate School USDA Grant Thornton
LLP IBM Kearney Company
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Sustaining Membership Roster May 2009 (34)
ACL Services AOC Solutions Approva Allmond and
Company NEW! Audimation Catapult Consultants
LLC CCH Cherry Bekaert Holland Cotton and
Company Crowe Horwath Daston Corp Dynamic Access
Systems EAM Inc, Mosley Assoc Gleim
Publications Inc Grantium GreenTree
Group Integrated Business Consulting - NEW! Key
Associates
Lionel Henderson Co Inc Mandex Inc MIL
Corporation Noetix Corporation Oversight
Systems Pragmatics SAS SofTec Solutions SPSS STG
Inc TeraThink NEW! The Network Thompson, Cobb,
Bazilio Assoc. Thomson Reuters Vanguard
Advisors LLC VISTA
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CPAG Role in AGA

• Corporate commitment to AGA's mission
• Thought leadership
• Professional staff resources
• Financial support for programs, research
• and events

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CPAG Events and Activities
Monthly Access Dinners December 9th Doug
Webster (Dept of Labor) January 6th Clay
Johnson (OMB) February 10th Sheila Conley (Dept
of HHS) March 10th Lee Lofthus (Dept of
Justice) April 7th Lisa Casias (Dept of
Commerce) May 5th Danny Werfel (OMB)
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CPAG Events and Activities

• Major Events
• National Leadership Conference
  February 19 20, 2009 - Washington, D.C.
• Professional Development Conference
  June 21 24, 2009 New Orleans, LA
• Internal Control Fraud Conference
  September 16 17, 2009 Washington, D.C.
• National Performance Management Conference
  November 5 6, 2009 Seattle, WA

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CPAG Events and Activities

• Special Events
• Forum on Emerging Issues - February 18, 2009
  Washington, D.C.
• CPAG Red Carpet Reception February 19, 2009
  Washington, D.C.
• CPAG Breakfast featuring Gene Dodaro April 8,
  2009 Washington, D.C.
  
• CEAR Awards Black Tie Dinner
  May 20, 2009 Washington, D.C. 2
  spots per Corporate Partner
• NEW! CPAG Breakfast featuring Ed DeSeve June 4,
  2009 Washington, D.C.
• All Hands Meetings - Quarterly

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CPAG Research Projects

• Most Recently Completed Projects
• Performance Based Management - 20
  Sponsor
  Cooperative Project with Grant Thornton, IBM and
  SAS
• Procuring Audit Services in Government - 19
  
  Sponsor Kearney Company
• Grants Management How XBRL Can Help - 18
  
  
• Sponsor BearingPoint
• Characteristics of Effective Audit Committees in
  Federal, State and Local Governments - 17
  
  
• Sponsor KPMG LLP

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CPAG Research Projects

• Most Recently Completed Projects (contd)
• XBRL and Public Sector Financial Reporting
  Standardized Business Reporting The Oregon CAFR
  Project - 16
  Sponsor PwC
• SAS 70 Reports Are They Useful and Can They Be
  Improved? - 15
  Sponsor
  Ernst Young

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CPAG Research Projects

• Current Projects
• Annual CFO Survey
  Sponsor Grant Thornton LLP
• Trends in Technology 2009 Update
  Sponsor CSC
• How Managerial Cost Accounting Can be Useful to
  Program Managers and Decision Makers Success
  Stories
  Sponsor MIL
  Corporation
• Managing Risk in Times of Crisis Accounting and
  Control Considerations for Recovery Act Programs
  
  Sponsor Kearney Company
• Use of Performance Management Techniques in State
  an d Local Governments
  
  Sponsor Crowe

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CPAG Research
Benefits of Sponsorship

• Article is published in AGAs Journal of
  Government Financial Management
• Press and Research releases
• Bulk copies printed and distributed - VIP mailing
  and at AGA events
• Bulk copies to sponsor
• PDC technical session
• Audio conference subject matter
• Report posted to AGAs website
• Potential collaboration on books, white papers
• Report electronically distributed to members via
  Topics e-newsletter

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Get Involved! Get Out of the Program What You Put
Into It

• Participate in Events
• Volunteer for Conference Committees
• Get involved with local AGA chapters
• Participate in Research
• Stay Current with Topics, AGA Today, CPAG News
  and Email Updates

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II. CPAG Presentations
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Message from the National President

• Samuel T. Mok, CGFM, CIA
• AGA National President

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AGA Update

• Relmond Van Daniker, DBA, CPA
• Executive Director
• Advancing Government Accountability
• Service Citizen-Centric Reporting
• Accountability
• Certification
• Education and Research

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Get To Know Your Fellow Corporate Partner

• Integrated Business Consulting LLC
• Tim Spadafore Vice President
• TeraThink
• Doug Davidson Vice President

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CPAG Guest Speaker

• Jennifer Main
• Chief Financial Officer, Office of Financial
  Stability
• U.S. Department of the Treasury

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• AGA Online
• www.agacgfm.org