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Previous Workshops

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• July 08, 2010 – “International Financial Reporting Standards Update” – Phil Miller, Executive Secretary, Virginia Cooperative Council
• July 01, 2010 – “Workshop For NSAC Chapter Officers and Directors 2010” – Don Frederick, NSAC Director of Education
• June 10, 2010 – “2010 Intro to Cooperatives” – Don Frederick, NSAC Director of Education
• May 13, 2010 – “Securing Grant Funds to Supplement Co-Op Member Capital” – Brent Morrison, Managing Principal, Morrison & Company and Kevin Edberg, Executive Director, Cooperative Development Services
• April 29, 2010 – “Economic News Outside Mainstream Media - What it Means for Cooperatives” – Russell Wasson, Director Tax, Finance & Accounting Policy - NRECA
• February 11, 2010 – “BUDGETING: Basics, Problems, Trends and Best Practices” – Phil Miller, Executive Secretary, Virginia Cooperative Council and Chris Headley, Assistant Controller- Southern States Cooperative, Inc.
• February 04, 2010 – “The New Form 990 - Lessons Learned From the 2009 Filing Season” – Mary Griffin, Sr. Policy Advisor NCBA and Bill Miller, CPA with Bolinger, Segars, Gilbert & Moss LLP
• January 28, 2010 – “Exemption and Resale Certificates Sales Tax Audits” – Silvia Aguirre, President - Tax Technology Services and Matthew MacNeil, Sr. VP Operations - Tax Technology Services
• December 16, 2009 – “December 16, 2009 - Section 199 Update ” – David Antoni, Managing Director, Tax Services with KPMG LLP and Teresa Castanias, CPA and Retired Partner from KPMG
• December 03, 2009 – “FASB Accounting Standards Codification” – Thomas Hoey, Director of the FASB Codification and XBRL Projects - Thomas Hoey & Associations, LLC
• November 19, 2009 – “Concepts of SFAS 141R as Applied to Cooperatives” – Greg Taylor, CPA with D. Williams & Company, P.C.
• November 12, 2009 – “2009 Basic A&A Course - 4 Hour Module” – Donald Frederick, Educational Director, NSAC - Phil Miller, Executive Secretary, Virginia Cooperative Council
• October 29, 2009 – “International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium Sized Entities (IFRS for SME)” – Russ Wasson, Director of Tax, Finance and Accounting Policy with National Rural Electric Co-op Assoc.
• September 17, 2009 – “International Accounting Standards” – Phil Miller, Executive Secretary, Virginia Cooperative Council
• September 03, 2009 – “Developing An Effective Audit Committee” – Clay Worden, CPA with McGladrey & Pullen
• July 16, 2009 – “Topic: Introduction to Hedging” – Bob Beerup, CPA - Illinois Agricultural Auditing Association
• July 09, 2009 – “July 2009 NSAC Chapter Leadership Training” – Don Frederick, NSAC Director of Education
• June 11, 2009 – “2009 Risk Management Overview” – Bill Erlenbush - Controller for GROWMARK, Inc.
• May 28, 2009 – “2009 Introduction to Cooperatives” – Don Frederick, NSAC Director of Education
• April 30, 2009 – “Effectively Managing Your Cooperative's Capital - Session 3 of 3” – Pete Oettinger, CPA and Brian Haraga, Corporate Financial Officer
• March 26, 2009 – “Attracting Outside Capital - How Capital Can be Brought Into a Co-Op - Session 2 of 3” – Mary Griffin, Sr. Policy Advisor, Jerry McGeorge, Director Cooperative Affairs and Howard Brodsky, Co-Chief Executive Officer
• February 19, 2009 – “Capital Structure of Cooperatives -The Basics - Session 1 of 3” – Mary Griffin NCBA, Colleen Leppert with Blue Hawk Distribution and Alistair Williamson with Equal Exchange
• February 04, 2009 – “Save the Date - February 4, 2010” – Mary Griffin NCBA and Sandra Hofmann, CPA with Crowe Horwath
• January 08, 2009 – “NSAC Chapter Leadership Training” – Don Frederick, NSAC Director of Education
• December 11, 2008 – “Conducting an Effective Review of Cooperative Legal Documents” – Daniel Mott, Attorney Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
• November 20, 2008 – “A&A Basic Course - Special Four Hour Module” – Don Frederick, NSAC Director of Education and Philip Miller, VP & Controller Southern States Cooperative
• November 06, 2008 – “Discounted Redemptions: Developments with Sub T and Electric Utility Cooperatives” – Dan Schultz, CPA with Cooperative Consulting, LLC and Bill Miller, CPA with Bolinger, Segars, Gilbert & Moss, LLP
• October 23, 2008 – “Basic Cooperative Footnotes and Financial Disclosure” – Clay Worden, CPA with McGladrey & Pullen
• September 24, 2008 – “Professionally Speaking: Accounting Trends That Are Shaping the Future” – Thomas E. Kandel, Senior Accountant, Regulatory Affairs - National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Cooperation
• September 12, 2008 – “Surviving the Upheaval and Risk in the Agribusiness Credit Market” – David Sparks, Regional Manager, CoBank - St. Louis
• July 10, 2008 – “Cooperative Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Issues” – Philip Miller, Vice President and Controller with Southern States Cooperative
• May 01, 2008 – “What You Need to Know About 409A - Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation - Final Regulations” – Daniel S. Welytok, Attorney with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, SC
• April 24, 2008 – “2008 Introduction to Cooperatives” – Donald Frederick, NSAC Director of Education
• December 06, 2007 – “Rural Development Utilities Programs” – Diana Alger CPA, Chief, Technical Accounting and Auditing Staff
• November 28, 2007 – “The Basic Cooperative Accounting Course” – Donald Frederick, NSAC Director of Education and Philip Miller, Vice President & Controller Southern States Cooperative
• October 18, 2007 – “Pension and Business Combination Accounting Update” – Russell Wasson, Director of Tax, Finance and Accounting Policy - National Rural Electric Cooperative
• September 20, 2007 – “Basics of Leasing” – Jeff Crable, Vice President / Senior Relationship Manager with CoBank/Farm Credit Leasing
• July 26, 2007 – “Homeland Security: Overview and Issues Impacting Cooperatives” – Philip Miller, Vice President and Controller for Southern States Cooperative
• July 12, 2007 – “Advanced Cooperative Performance Measures” – Christina Cuppett, Senior Credit Officer CoBank, St. Louis Regional Office
• June 14, 2007 – “Section 199: Issues For Cooperative Organizations” – Barry Jencik, CPA Partner with Standera & Jencik
• May 03, 2007 – “Property and Casualty Insurance” – Mark Halvorsen - Gallagher Risk Management Services
• April 19, 2007 – “Introduction to Cooperatives” – Don Frederick, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Cooperative Program Group)
• February 15, 2007 – “Uncertain Tax Positions” – Russell Wasson, Director of Tax, Finance and Accounting Policy - National Rural Electric Cooperative
• November 16, 2006 – “Equity Issues” – Joel J. Dahlgren, Esq., Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP and Lawrence J. Romuald, Vice President Finance-Treasurer, Cooperative Resources International
• October 25, 2006 – “Internal Controls” – Clay T. Worden, CPA
• October 12, 2006 – “Risk Management ” – Jeff Walker, Sr. Vice President & Chief Risk Officer ACES Power Marketing
• September 21, 2006 – “Internal Audit ” – Tommie Singleton, PhD, CPA
• June 22, 2006 – “Value Pricing to Improve your Profitibility and Productivity ” – Shannon Vincent, Co-Founder and CEO, ReNew Group
• June 08, 2006 – “Depreciation” – Dwayne Campbell, CPA and Tony Burrell, CPA
• March 30, 2006 – “Budgeting: A Discussion of Budgeting Basics, Best Practices and Recent Trends” – S. Christopher Headley, CPA, CMA, CFM and Phillip W. Miller, CPA
• March 07, 2006 – “Introduction to Electric Cooperative Taxation” – Russell Wasson, CPA
• February 15, 2006 – “Business Valuations ” – Rick Burns, PhD
• November 03, 2005 – “The New Manufacturing Deduction” – Ed Bercot and Donald W. Butwill
• September 22, 2005 – “Introduction To Cooperatives” – Donald Frederick, U.S. Department of Agriculture