Focus...

It is an interesting time of year around the GSCPA office. Our Spring Council meeting in Chattanooga a couple of weeks ago was the culmination of many months of work in the area of governance, bylaw changes, and budgeting in a tough economy. Those things finished, we’re now in the process of tying up loose ends and final projects to finish up this fiscal year and doing things to get the new fiscal year off and running. Stewart Carlin is still President! But we we’re working more with In-coming President Bob Prator to get his year off and running. It is a proverbial, “shifting of gears” here in the office.

We’re also beginning to see more and more members in the office as the new CPE year kicks off and many of our staff are busy processing both dues and CPE registrations; both clear signs that a new year is beginning. The processing of dues and CPE registrations generates a sigh of relief, as we are, like everyone else, concerned about the effects this economy might have on us. We’ve worked hard with our board of directors to bring in a scaled down budget and responsible budget that delivers all of our member services and still saves money.

Other planning that is happening is for the Annual Convention in Amelia Island this year at the end of June. This is the last year of this meeting as a stand-alone meeting, as we are combining the spring council meeting and the annual convention in 2010 (to be held in Hilton Head). There will no be major differences in how the combined meeting unfolds, and the transition to this format should be fairly seamless. Still other activity this time of year is the Section Leadership Teams are beginning to meet here in the office and Chapters are kicking off their new year as well.

So, 2008-09 was a busy year that saw many changes for the GSCPA and 2009-10 promises also to be a year of new things and a year of accomplishments all as well.

Happy New year to you!

GJ