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AUGUST 2020 National Professional Development Conference Update INSIDE THIS ISSUE Planning is progressing for the 2020 or less registrants from the same CAGFO National Conference and organization, and; Social Programming 2 we are working hard to ensure that 2. Organization Discount: $1200 for President’s Report 3 AGM Notice registrants have a “next-best-thing-to- four or more registrants from the being-there” experience, with timely same organization. PSAB News 4 and topical presentations, discussions, The Organization discount option is Budget Book vs. Financial 5 and social networking opportunities. Statements - What’s worse? proving to be very popular with some This much-anticipated annual Related Events 6 municipalities planning to register Sponsors professional development conference upwards of 100 finance officers to will still feature the relevant and make use of the unlimited option for exciting presentations and discussions $1200.00. you’ve come to expect from CAGFO but there are also opportunities to When registering, please complete include the whole family in our unique Section 1 for the Organization and add NEW! social programming! your individual delegates in Section 2. CAGFO The pricing will automatically adjust to Events include a Cooking Class with the correct registration option based DISCUSSION MasterChef winner Mary Berg and a on the number of delegates entered. FORUM Mixology demonstration from Erick Rosende. All you need to do is register If you are planning on registering START THE CONVERSATION HERE! 10 or more people, please feel free for the conference and your family can FORUM TOPICS INCLUDE: attend! to submit an excel spreadsheet to [email protected] with the following • COVID-19 Impact and We are very pleased to announce Solutions columns completed for each new group discount registration • User Charges registrant: First Name, Last Name, options for the 2020 CAGFO National Position, Email, Phone. • PSAB Conference. • Financial Statements If you need to add people or make any New this year we are offering group • Taxes changes to an existing registration, rates for the following options: • Audits please complete this change form • Council Reporting 1. Group Discount: $750 for three request. • Technology for Govern- SPONSOR AND EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES STILL AVAILABLE! ment Finance Officers • AND MORE! Partnering with CAGFO allows your government, who collectively have final organization to be aligned with an spending authority on billions of dollars Click here to access the association’s commitment to promoting annually. CAGFO FORUM and excellence in government finance. As a start the conversation! CAGFO partner, you will have access to up A virtual exhibit hall will also be offered to 1000 conference participants as well as at the 2020 National Conference. Uset his being included in our mailings to more than opportunity to connect with our delegates 5000 people working in the government and maximize your investment! finance field. Most of these delegates For more info, please contact Lee Gould at are senior decision makers in local and [email protected]. provincial AUGUST 2020 cagfo.ca Suite 247, 11-300 Earl Grey Drive, Kanata, ON K2T 1C1 (604) 493-2017 Page 1 2020 CAGFO NATIONAL CONFERENCE - SOCIAL PROGRAMMING Mary will be leading a one- Corporate trainer, ISG Sommelier/ hour cooking class at 7:00pm WSET Spirits Educator with Ultimate EST on Sunday, September Bartending. Erick is a Master 13th. Include your family as Mixologist and Sommelier with 20 you learn to make Mary’s years of bartending and managing Heirloom Tomato Galette experience throughout USA, Brazil, like a masterchef from the Spain, Mexico, Chile and of course comfort of your own kitchen! Canada. He is known as one of From an early age, Mary the all time Pro bartenders, and always loved learning about, is now sharing his vast knowledge experimenting with, and and experience with the new great sharing food. She has spent upcoming bartenders in Canada. most of her life cooking and When Erick is not instructing at baking for those she most Ultimate Bartending School you can cares for. Her love of food has find him managing at Edmonton never faltered and she holds Event Centre, Empire Ballroom, The a strong appreciation for the Treasury, Underground Sound and restorative powers of a good, many other locations for Bar Source home-cooked meal. Canada, entertaining celebrities and Invite your whole family!! The Mary’s signature style of re- VIPs. social programming at the 2020 imagining culinary CAGFO National Conference offers classics while something for everyone. Register maintaining the for the conference and invite your original heart of whole family to learn new skills the dish has helped together from the comfort of your make a passion of own home. cooking for those Mary Berg is a self-taught home she loves into her cook who can pretty much always full-time dream be found in the kitchen. She’s also job. Delivered with a strong believer in the philosophy her genuine and that any good party starts and ends charming persona, right there. Mary creates Television audiences know Mary as recipes that anyone host of her own feature series Mary’s from a kitchen novice to a culinary Erick will be closing out the Kitchen Crush and the Season 3 wizard can master. conference with a free 1-hr demo at winner of CTV’s MasterChef Canada. For more information on Mary Berg, 3:00pm EST on Thursday, September She can also be seen as a regular Food visit www.asmallstove.com. You 17th. Recipes will be provided in Expert on CTV’s Your Morning and can also follow along with Mary advance for five cocktails including The Marilyn Denis Show. In addition, on Instagram and Twitter and on a selection of mocktails. just last Fall Mary published her own Facebook. For more info, please visit click here. best-selling cookbook Kitchen Party: Erick Rosende is the Director/ Effortless Recipes for Every Occasion. AUGUST 2020 cagfo.ca Suite 247, 11-300 Earl Grey Drive, Kanata, ON K2T 1C1 (604) 493-2017 Page 2 President’s Report GOLD SPONSORS Our role, as finance professionals, requires rums for discussions set us apart from other us to be resilient during periods of uncer- conferences and professional development tainty. The last six months has been a chal- experiences. Additionally, we have built in lenge for us all, to say the least. Our focus some networking through a cooking demon- and perseverance has been and continues stration and drink mixology events. to be needed to prevail through this difficult Don’t miss this great opportunity to partici- period of time. The ongoing pandemic that pate, especially when there can be unlimited continues to test us all has undoubtedly pro- participants within your organization at an vided us with paramount experiences and all-in, low cost. For more information on our learning opportunities that have strength- upcoming conference, please visit https:// ened our ability to lead and overcome ob- cagfo.ca/2020-annual-conference/. stacles of significant consequence. As lead- I’d like to thank our staff, Lee, Sam and Anne ers, we are tasked with finding opportunities for rising to the challenge of planning our to guide our organizations to success and first virtual conference! Their enthusiasm, Leading Through Adversity, to prosperity. dedication and hard work is sure to make Our theme for this year’s conference, Lead- this conference a success. ing Through Adversity, is very appropriate This is my last message as President of and suited for this time. The Canadian As- CAGFO. I have had the pleasure to serve sociation of Government Finance Officers you, our CAGFO Membership, in this role for (CAGFO) has been and continues to be the past two years. Over this time, CAGFO here for you with the tools and resources has grown to almost 10,000 Members and you need in order to adapt and to navigate stakeholders, making CAGFO the largest as- through this time. Like so many others, sociation representing and supporting the CAGFO has ‘gone virtual’ with our much-an- interests of Canada’s government finance ticipated national professional development officers. Thank-you for your trust and confi- conference. Our lineup of speakers – Kev- dence in me to lead. in Page, Enid Slack and Michael Puskaric to name a few – are phenomenal. Relevant Noreen Kassam, CPA,CGA topics, engaging sessions and pertinent fo- Director Finance City of Burnaby, BC CAGFO Notice of 2020 Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given that the Annual • Financial statements and Report of General Meeting (AGM) of the Members of Auditor the Canadian Association of Government • Appointment of Auditor for the 2020 Finance Officers (CAGFO) will take place fiscal year ‘virtually’ on Wednesday, September 16, 4. Election of Directors 2020 starting at 11:30 hours (Eastern Time). Minutes, unapproved audited financial Notice is also given that matters to bebrought statements and the report of the Auditor will before the meeting include the following: be made available as separate documents for view at www.cagfo.ca. 1. Approval of minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Members on, October Should you have any questions please don’t 4th 2019. hesitate to contact CAGFO by email at office@ cagfo.ca or 604.493.2017. 2. President’s Report 3. Treasurer’s Report The draft agenda is available here. AUGUST 2020 cagfo.ca Suite 247, 11-300 Earl Grey Drive, Kanata, ON K2T 1C1 (604) 493-2017 Page 3 PSAB’S INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY DECISION SILVER SPONSORS At its May 5, 2020 meeting, the Public standards. This means that if a project is Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) voted to undertaken and an IPSAS already exists, approve Option 2: Adapt IPSAS principles the principles of that IPSAS will be used as when developing future standards as a base for developing the corresponding its future international strategy.