From kathryn.ross at state.or.us Mon Apr 4 15:50:33 2011 From: kathryn.ross at state.or.us (ROSS Kathryn * SCD SARS) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:50:33 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] Important Agency GASB 54 Training Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF8180B187CC0@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> Hello Everyone, If your agency has governmental funds, please mark your calendars! SARS will present one more GASB 54 training session prior to the year-end closing. It is critical that each agency with governmental funds sends at least one representative to this training. Preregistration is not required. Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Labor and Industries Building Room 260 350 Winter Street NE Salem, OR Topics to be covered: Brief (very brief) overview of GASB 54 GASB 54 codes and some givens New D23 fund requests New GL accounts in SFMA New t-codes in SFMA Where we are on moving beginning fund balances Steps needed to reclassify "reserved for XXX" fund balances Where we are on the review of Special Revenue funds Moving D23 funds to GAAP fund 0054, GASB 54 General Fund Please contact your SARS analyst if you have any concerns. Thanks, Kathy Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. 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Thank you, Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published From: cafr-contacts-news-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:cafr-contacts-news-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of ROSS Kathryn * SCD SARS Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:09 PM To: cafr-contacts-news at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] Governmental Acctg - 14 CPE credits - April11-12 Importance: High Hello Everyone, The State Controller's Division is hosting two-days of free training that will focus on governmental accounting issues, including GASB 54 and new GASB standards to be implemented in the future. Eric S. Berman, MSA, CPA, will be our guest speaker. Mr. Berman is a consultant and partner with Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporation, Pasadena, California and the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council representative for the Association of Government Accountants. Mr. Berman was also the former Deputy Comptroller of Massachusetts. Dates: April 11 and 12, 2011 Location: Best Western Mill Creek Inn, 3125 Ryan Drive SE, Salem, OR 97301 Cost: Free (sponsored by the State Controller's Division) CPE: 14.0 credits Registration: Please log into iLearnOregon at https://ilearn.oregon.gov and enter "GASB" in the Search Text box at the Course Catalog screen. (For more information on using iLearnOregon, please see the "Registration" section at the end of the attached announcement.) Agenda/Speaker Bio: See the attached announcement. Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. Thank You! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Govt Acctg April 11-12.docx Type: application/octet-stream Size: 20382 bytes Desc: Govt Acctg April 11-12.docx URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT391141.txt URL: From kathryn.ross at state.or.us Fri Apr 15 12:36:23 2011 From: kathryn.ross at state.or.us (ROSS Kathryn * SCD SARS) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:36:23 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] Reminder: Important Agency GASB 54 Training! Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF8180B187D24@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> Hello Everyone, If your agency has governmental funds, please mark your calendars! SARS will present one more GASB 54 training session prior to the year-end closing. It is critical that each agency with governmental funds sends at least one representative to this training. Preregistration is not required. Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM (We estimate the training will last 1.5 hours; however, we have reserved the room for the entire morning so we have plenty of time to answer questions.) Location: Labor and Industries Building Room 260 350 Winter Street NE Salem, OR Topics to be covered: Brief (very brief) overview of GASB 54 GASB 54 codes and some givens New D23 fund requests New GL accounts in SFMA New t-codes in SFMA Where we are on moving beginning fund balances Steps needed to reclassify "reserved for XXX" fund balances Where we are on the review of Special Revenue funds Moving D23 funds to GAAP fund 0054, GASB 54 General Fund Please contact your SARS analyst if you have any concerns. Thanks, Kathy Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. Thank You! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Kathy Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kathryn.ross at state.or.us Mon Apr 18 14:57:06 2011 From: kathryn.ross at state.or.us (ROSS Kathryn * SCD SARS) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:57:06 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] Handouts for GASB 54 Training! Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF8180B187D40@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> Here is the link to the handouts for the GASB 54 training to be held tomorrow morning, April 19, at the L&I Building beginning at 9:00 (see below for more details). http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS/index.shtml Please print both documents and bring with you to the training: * GASB 54 PowerPoint Presentation (please configure/print the slides to suit your individual preference) * Additional Handout Materials Thank you, Kathy ________________________________ Hello Everyone, If your agency has governmental funds, please mark your calendars! SARS will present one more GASB 54 training session prior to the year-end closing. It is critical that each agency with governmental funds sends at least one representative to this training. Preregistration is not required. Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM (We estimate the training will last 1.5 hours; however, we have reserved the room for the entire morning so we have plenty of time to answer questions.) Location: Labor and Industries Building Room 260 350 Winter Street NE Salem, OR Topics to be covered: Brief (very brief) overview of GASB 54 GASB 54 codes and some givens New D23 fund requests New GL accounts in SFMA New t-codes in SFMA Where we are on moving beginning fund balances Steps needed to reclassify "reserved for XXX" fund balances Where we are on the review of Special Revenue funds Moving D23 funds to GAAP fund 0054, GASB 54 General Fund Please contact your SARS analyst if you have any concerns. Thanks, Kathy Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. Thank You! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeanne.bock at state.or.us Wed Apr 20 09:56:12 2011 From: jeanne.bock at state.or.us (BOCK Jeanne * SCD SARS) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:56:12 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] FW: Thompson audio conference on 5/26 Message-ID: <4875EF345085BE48B9C4B7CA341EFB680125A3E5@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> CAFR Contacts, The State Controller's Division is sponsoring the Thompson Interactive audio conference "OMB's New 2011 Compliance Supplement for Circular A-133 Audits: How Grant Recipients and Subrecipients Can Use it for Audit Readiness." The audio conference write-up provided by Thompson Interactive and information on date, time, location and how to sign up are below. OMB's NEW 2011 Compliance Supplement for Circular A-133 Audits: How Grant Recipients and Subrecipients Can Use It for Audit Readiness Every spring, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) releases the complete update to its "Compliance Supplement for Circular A-133 Audits" to provide independent auditors with guidance about the compliance requirements to be reviewed in the course of these mandated audits of federal funds. The extensive annual "Supplement" saves non-federal auditors research time and provides assurance to the federal government that audit testing will be uniformly carried out in the thousands of A-133 audits conducted each year. Use of the Compliance Supplement has become known as a "safe harbor" for auditors -- if they follow it, they satisfy the compliance testing expectations of Circular A-133. So, if the "Compliance Supplement" is for auditors, why would anyone else -- like grant recipients and subrecipients-want to become familiar with it? Because...it covers what they're going to be tested on. This year, that is even more important. The new Supplement continues to stress what auditors are expected to look for in the expenditures made under the programs funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-better known as "The Stimulus." Auditors were previously instructed to treat all of those programs as "high risk." And it should come as no surprise that the Supplement is also focusing on the accuracy of new subaward reporting required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act-also known as the Coburn-Obama Act. With the high visibility of these requirements, it'll be particularly important to be "audit ready" this year. Learn how during this audio conference featuring speaker, Bob Lloyd, a respected authority on federal policies affecting acquisition, administration and audit of federal grants. With more than 35 years of experience in federal award administration and oversight, he will help you examine this latest version of the OMB Compliance Supplement-but from the unique viewpoint of federal grantees and subgrantees. During this audio conference, Mr. Lloyd will: * Provide a "roadmap" of how the "Compliance Supplement" is organized and how to "cut to the chase" to find the information you or your auditor need * Review the 14 key general grants management compliance areas that are specified for audit testing * Identify the kinds of tests that auditors are likely to use * Focus on the unique requirements that will be tested when some or all of a grant award is funded using Recovery Act (Stimulus) funds * Suggest ways to develop or improve your documentation to demonstrate compliance * Caution you about ways that inappropriate "back door" requirements might be surfacing from the guidance in the Supplement * Detail what will happen if some of your grant programs aren't covered in the "Supplement" and what your role should be in developing the compliance information for those programs * Highlight what to expect in the auditor's review of your internal controls over federal programs-- another way of saying, your grants management system Plus, time will be set aside for an interactive Q&A session after the presentation. Listen in and get the chance to ask your specific question! Date: Monday, May 26, 2011 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Location: Veteran's Auditorium Prerequisite: Background knowledge of federal grants management Advance Prep: None required CPE: 1.5 credit hours awarded upon completion of the audio conference and its post-conference survey Cost: FREE (Sponsored by SCD) Registration: https://ilearn.oregon.gov Registration for this event will be coordinated through iLearnOregon using the link provided above. You will need an active iLearnOregon account to complete the registration process. If you do not already have an iLearnOregon account, you can find information on how to create an account on the main log-in page for iLearnOregon. Once you have logged-in you will find a link for "How to Register For A Course" in the left navigation panel under "iLearnOregon Help Center." If you have questions, please contact Jeanne Bock at Jeanne.bock at state.or.us or by phone at 503-373-7277 ext. 268. Jeanne Bock Senior Accounting Analyst Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE U50 Salem, OR 97301-3969 Phone: 503-373-7277 ext 268 Fax: 503-378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey http://surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. Thank you! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 4378 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From jeanne.bock at state.or.us Wed Apr 20 10:12:52 2011 From: jeanne.bock at state.or.us (BOCK Jeanne * SCD SARS) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:12:52 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] FW: Thompson audio conference on 5/26 Message-ID: <4875EF345085BE48B9C4B7CA341EFB680125A3E7@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> Please see the corrected date. May 26 is a Thursday. CAFR Contacts, The State Controller's Division is sponsoring the Thompson Interactive audio conference "OMB's New 2011 Compliance Supplement for Circular A-133 Audits: How Grant Recipients and Subrecipients Can Use it for Audit Readiness." The audio conference write-up provided by Thompson Interactive and information on date, time, location and how to sign up are below. OMB's NEW 2011 Compliance Supplement for Circular A-133 Audits: How Grant Recipients and Subrecipients Can Use It for Audit Readiness Every spring, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) releases the complete update to its "Compliance Supplement for Circular A-133 Audits" to provide independent auditors with guidance about the compliance requirements to be reviewed in the course of these mandated audits of federal funds. The extensive annual "Supplement" saves non-federal auditors research time and provides assurance to the federal government that audit testing will be uniformly carried out in the thousands of A-133 audits conducted each year. Use of the Compliance Supplement has become known as a "safe harbor" for auditors -- if they follow it, they satisfy the compliance testing expectations of Circular A-133. So, if the "Compliance Supplement" is for auditors, why would anyone else -- like grant recipients and subrecipients-want to become familiar with it? Because...it covers what they're going to be tested on. This year, that is even more important. The new Supplement continues to stress what auditors are expected to look for in the expenditures made under the programs funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-better known as "The Stimulus." Auditors were previously instructed to treat all of those programs as "high risk." And it should come as no surprise that the Supplement is also focusing on the accuracy of new subaward reporting required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act-also known as the Coburn-Obama Act. With the high visibility of these requirements, it'll be particularly important to be "audit ready" this year. Learn how during this audio conference featuring speaker, Bob Lloyd, a respected authority on federal policies affecting acquisition, administration and audit of federal grants. With more than 35 years of experience in federal award administration and oversight, he will help you examine this latest version of the OMB Compliance Supplement-but from the unique viewpoint of federal grantees and subgrantees. During this audio conference, Mr. Lloyd will: * Provide a "roadmap" of how the "Compliance Supplement" is organized and how to "cut to the chase" to find the information you or your auditor need * Review the 14 key general grants management compliance areas that are specified for audit testing * Identify the kinds of tests that auditors are likely to use * Focus on the unique requirements that will be tested when some or all of a grant award is funded using Recovery Act (Stimulus) funds * Suggest ways to develop or improve your documentation to demonstrate compliance * Caution you about ways that inappropriate "back door" requirements might be surfacing from the guidance in the Supplement * Detail what will happen if some of your grant programs aren't covered in the "Supplement" and what your role should be in developing the compliance information for those programs * Highlight what to expect in the auditor's review of your internal controls over federal programs-- another way of saying, your grants management system Plus, time will be set aside for an interactive Q&A session after the presentation. Listen in and get the chance to ask your specific question! Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Location: Veteran's Auditorium Prerequisite: Background knowledge of federal grants management Advance Prep: None required CPE: 1.5 credit hours awarded upon completion of the audio conference and its post-conference survey Cost: FREE (Sponsored by SCD) Registration: https://ilearn.oregon.gov Registration for this event will be coordinated through iLearnOregon using the link provided above. You will need an active iLearnOregon account to complete the registration process. If you do not already have an iLearnOregon account, you can find information on how to create an account on the main log-in page for iLearnOregon. Once you have logged-in you will find a link for "How to Register For A Course" in the left navigation panel under "iLearnOregon Help Center." If you have questions, please contact Jeanne Bock at Jeanne.bock at state.or.us or by phone at 503-373-7277 ext. 268. Jeanne Bock Senior Accounting Analyst Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE U50 Salem, OR 97301-3969 Phone: 503-373-7277 ext 268 Fax: 503-378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey http://surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. Thank you! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 4378 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From kathryn.ross at state.or.us Wed Apr 20 13:24:31 2011 From: kathryn.ross at state.or.us (ROSS Kathryn * SCD SARS) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:24:31 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] OAM Policy Out for Comment: 55.30.00 - SPOTS Card Program Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF8180B187D5E@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> Hello CAFR Accountants! The following policy has been updated and posted for comment: * OAM 55.30.00 - SPOTS Card Program http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS/oam_toc.shtml#OAM_Policies_Out_for_Co mment The comment period ends Wednesday, May 4. Comments should be sent to Joy.Sebastian at state.or.us Thanks, Kathy Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kathryn.ross at state.or.us Thu Apr 21 14:20:01 2011 From: kathryn.ross at state.or.us (ROSS Kathryn * SCD SARS) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:20:01 -0700 Subject: [CAFR-Contacts-News] SARS has new phone numbers! Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF8180B187D6B@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> Hello Everyone! Effective at 4:00 pm today, Thursday, April 21, SARS has new telephone numbers. Kathryn Ross 503-373-0265 Jeanne Bock 503-373-0317 Kathy Dixon 503-373-0730 Barbara Homewood 503-373-0724 Jane Moreland 503-373-0711 Shri Vajratkar 503-373-0353 Aaron Wallace 503-373-0269 Margaret Wert 503-373-0731 Karen Williams 503-373-0156 We are in the process of updating our website and materials. The main number, 503-373-7277, will continue to work to link callers to the staff directory. Please forward this email to appropriate staff in your agency. Thank you. Kathy Kathryn Ross Statewide Accounting & Reporting Manager Oregon State Controller's Division 155 Cottage Street NE, U-50 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 373-7277, ext 253 Fax: (503) 378-3514 http://oregon.gov/DAS/SCD/SARS Data Classification: Level 1 - Published How are we doing? Please complete our customer service survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCD_Feedback Your opinion matters. Thank You! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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