Originally posted by rsallen13
Why won't #1 work? We have a full time employee at AMA that is employed specifically to handle our financials and, if we don't we should, have an outside auditing firm do our books and it can't be done in 60 days? The foundation I work at does it in 30 to 45 days.
Oh and nice talking to you today.
Ron-
I'm no CPA, but as an engineer and project manager, I've had responsibility for enterprises with budgets comparable to AMA's. The fiscal reporting is a peripheral part of this sort of job, but I darned well never got the slack to be more than 30 days behind on reporting detailed 'situational awareness' of budgetary matters. You're right on, and further the job of chief bean counter doesn't need to be the #2 job in AMA. The #2 position should be held by someone well qualified to step into the #1 slot on very short notice. That takes more than knowing where the checkbook is.
Very thoughtful and sweeping list that you provided of issues that should be on the minds of our EC members. If you ever consider running for AMA office, you will surely have my attention.
Abel