Welcome to the Central Ohio Chapterof the Association of Government Accountants!
AGA serves government accountability professionals by providing quality education, fostering professional development and certification, and supporting standards and research to advance government accountability.
President's Message
By Caren Murdock
Another exciting year for the Central Ohio AGA is underway. Our Chapter Executive Committee (CEC) is already hard at work planning for the upcoming months. Central Ohio AGA is lucky to have such dedicated volunteers who continue to improve our program year after year.
I want to extend a warm welcome to our new CEC volunteers, including Jay Easterling (President-Elect, Pohler and Associates, LLC), Nancy Barber (Community Service, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation), and Jim McLaughlin (Program Co-Chair, State Auditor’s Office).
One of our Chapter goals this year is to increase the number of FREE CPE hours offered to our members. This year, our Chapter will be providing more audio conferences hosted by National AGA. I am confident that you will find many educational events that will attract your interest, keep you abreast of current issues, and help satisfy your CPE requirements.
As always, the educational events will be posted on the website and email blasts will be sent throughout the program year. I want to encourage everyone to visit our website at www.coaga.org. You will find useful information such as membership information; educational opportunities; scholarships and award detail; executive committee members; sponsors; job postings and links to other associated sites.
Please remember we are always looking for new faces and ideas - consider volunteering throughout the year by participating in a sub-committee or accepting a future CEC role. This is your opportunity to have a voice in our educational and program events as well as promote the accounting profession. Feel free to contact a CEC member to express your interest in volunteering during the upcoming year.
I want to send a special thanks to Past-President Pat Wooldridge and the CEC members for their hard work and dedication this past year. I am honored to serve as your President this year and look forward to working with everyone. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
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News & Announcements
Central Ohio AGA's Annual Report of Accomplishments for the year ended June 30, 2009 is now available. We hope you will take a few minutes to find learn all about what COAGA accomplished in the past year. CLICK HERE for the annual report.
Be sure to check out our monthly newsletter for the latest on what is happening with the Central Ohio AGA Chapter.
Sponsor COAGA! Central Ohio AGA is currently looking for sponsors for the program year that runs through June 30, 2010. Information regarding the benefits of becoming a Central Ohio AGA sponsor as well as a registration form can be found by CLICKING HERE. For additional information regarding how to become a Central Ohio AGA sponsor, please contact our Sponsorship Chair: Brent Lewis, 614-358-4682, or e-mail Brent.
Central Ohio AGA is proud of its community service accomplishments. Because of the generosity of our members, we were recently able to donate over $2,700 to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank to assist hungry people in our communities.
COAGA E-Mail Announcements If you are not already receiving periodic news and announcements from Central Ohio AGA via e-mail, please take a minute to sign up!
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Upcoming Events
Training Opportunities On Thursday, March 25th there will be a joint meeting with IIA: Risk Based Internal Auditing – Reaching Optimization. This is a breakfast seminar that will take place at the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant near Port Columbus Airport. Registration and breakfast will begin at 8:00 a.m. The progam runs from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. (2 hours of CPE). Please CLICK HERE for more details. Registration can be done at the IIA website. Central Ohio AGA members should select the "Members" rate when registering. Community Service The Community Service event for May will be the Komen
Race for the Cure which will be held on Saturday, May 15. For more
information about this organization and race details, please go to the
Komen Columbus website.
Central Ohio AGA will be organizing a team of members and supporters to
walk the 5k course. More details will be provided as we get closer
to race day.
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More details to come soon!