Governmental GAAP Guide, 2020 - Softcover

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Eric S. Berman, MSA, CPA, CGMA, has over 28 years of governmental accounting and auditing experience and is a Partner with Eide Bailly LLP. Previous to Eide Bailly LLP, he was a quality control principal with a public accounting firm in California. Eric is the author of the Governmental Library for CCH. The Government Library also offers in-depth, interpretive guidance. In addition to this Governmental GAAP Guide, users can access CCH’s Governmental GAAP Practice Manual, the Governmental GAAP Disclosures Manual, Knowledge-Based AuditsTM of State and Local Governments with Single Audits, and the Governmental GAAP Update Service. Eric’s public-sector experience includes being a Deputy Comptroller for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2010, and the Chief Financial Officer of the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust from 1994 to 1999. Eric is a licensed CPA in Massachusetts. He obtained an M.S. in Accountancy from Bentley University. Eric recently represented the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) as the Vice Chairman of the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Council to GASB. He chairs the AGA’s Audit Committee. Previously, he chaired the AGA’s Financial Management Standards Board. He also is a previous chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Governmental Performance and Accountability Committee and is a former member of the AICPA’s State and Local Government Expert Panel. Eric is currently a member of the GASB’s task force reexamining the state and local governmental financial reporting model and has served on previous GASB task forces and working groups assisting in the development and implementation of standards. Eric is also a past member of the California Society of CPA’s Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee and is past chair of the same committee for the Massachusetts Society of CPAs. He was also the founder and treasurer of a not-for-profit performing arts organization in Pennsylvania. Eric is frequently called upon to consult and train state and local governments throughout the country on governmental accounting and auditing.