GAO appoints yellow book advisory council.A 20-member council has been named to work with the General Accounting Office in keeping current the GAO Government Auditing Standards (the yellow book). The Government Auditing Standards Advisory Council was appointed by Charles A. Bowsher, the immediate past U.S. comptroller general and head of the GAO; it will work directly with the successor comptroller general on revisions and interpretations of and guidance on the yellow book. The advisory council will not issue standards. Although this is not the first advisory council appointed by the comptroller general, it is the first permanent one. Members will serve staggered two-, three- and four-year terms to ensure continuity; subsequent appointments will be for three years. Past advisory councils were operational only while the yellow book was being revised. "This council will establish more formal procedures than the previous ones, which met only occasionally" said Marcia B. Buchanan, CPA, assistant director, government accounting standards, of the GAO. "It is time again to work on yellow book revisions," said Buchanan, who is the staff director of the new council. "This council will ensure that the continued development of standards is accepted by the government audit community." The advisory council includes chairman James B. Thomas James Burrows Thomas, QC, BA, LLB, A.M was an Australian Judge serving on the Supreme Court of Queensland in Queensland (Qld). Thomas brought an unusually broad knowledge of life into his judicial career commencing his education at a public school Windsor State School and , Jr., director of auditing, Office of Chief Inspector General, Tallahassee, Florida; vice-chairman Richard Tracy, director of audits, Portland, Oregon; Robert H. Attmore, deputy state comptroller for management audit and financial reporting, Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany. Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. ; Thomas R. Bloom, inspector general, Department of Education, Washington, D.C.; June Gibbs Brown, inspector general, Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS , Washington, D.C.; Donald H. Chapin, consultant and former chief accountant of the GAO, Naples, Florida; Patricia A. Dalton, deputy inspector general, Department of Labor, Washington D.C.; Dennis J. Fischer, chief financial officer, General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. , Washington, D.C.; Norwood J. Jackson, Jr., deputy controller, Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), formerly the Bureau of the Budget, is an agency of the federal government that evaluates, formulates, and coordinates management procedures and program objectives within and among departments and agencies of the Executive Branch. , Washington, D.C.; Daniel G. Kyle, legislative auditor, Baton Rouge, Louisiana For the Canadian restaurant, see . Baton Rouge (from the French bâton rouge), pronounced /ˈbætn ˈɹuːʒ/ in English, and . Also, George A. Lewis, retired partner, Broussard, Poche, Lewis & Breaux, Lafayette, Louisiana; Philip A. Leone, director, Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, Richmond, Virginia.; Nora J. E. Masters, city auditor, Seattle; Sam M. McCall, deputy auditor general, Tallahassee, Florida; John Miller, partner, KPMG Peat Marwick, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ; Roberta E. Reese, chief accountant, Office of the State Comptroller, Carson City, Nevada The Consolidated Municipality of Carson City is the capital of the State of Nevada. A 2006 population estimate places its population at 57,701[1]. Carson City is now an independent city and is its own Metropolitan Statistical Area. ; Kurt R. Sjoberg, state auditor, Sacramento, California; Midge Smith, University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. , Maryland; Paul M. Thompson, vice-president, AMBAC Indemnity Corp., New York City; Cornelius E. Tierney, professor of accountancy and director of the Center for Public Financial Management at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. The first meeting will be held in January. For more information on the council, contact Marcia Buchanan at the GAO by calling 202-512-9321. |
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