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Dear Members:
Please join your fellow members for Student Night
on April 18, 2007 at Kent State University Student
Center. Shirley Calvin
Dear Fellow Members: This month’s dinner meeting will be held at Kent State University. We have two more wonderful speakers scheduled for the meeting. The speakers are Marilyn Deisner and Patrick Bianco. There are two other major events coming up in the near future. The first is the 33rd Annual Meonske Professional Conference being held at Kent State on April 26th and 27th. The second is our third annual golf outing to benefit our student chapters. The Meonske conference committee has put together another outstanding roster for this year’s event. Thursday will now be a full day for all of those in attendance. In addition to the ethics class in the afternoon, there will be another session available. Friday’s slate of speakers may be the best group compiled to date. Last year there were over 220 registrants for Thursday and Friday was sold out again. If you are planning on attending get your registrations in early. I hope to see as many of you golfers as possible at this year’s outing. We moved the date back 3 weeks in an attempt to try and get better weather, although you would be hard pressed to beat the day we had last year. We will again be playing at the Kent State golf course on May 19th in the morning. If you don’t golf, please tell your friends that do golf. If you want to help you could volunteer, donate money or a gift(s) for the event. It is our volunteers and sponsors that truly make this event successful. We are still looking for a few more members to join the 2007-08 board. If you have an interest in becoming a board member please contact Diana Saulino. Also if you have any topics you would like to see scheduled for the up coming year please let Doreen know. The 2007-08 planning meeting will be held in early June.
Sincerely,
Dean C. Hull II
Patrick Bianco is a Manager of the Business Services Department at CBIZ, Inc. in Cleveland, with over 20 years of internal audit management and controllership experience in commercial services, banking, retail, real estate and manufacturing. Pat specializes in Internal Audit and Sarbanes-Oxley implementation, risk and control analysis, and process improvements, along with co-sourced CFO and controllership projects. He has led numerous nationwide Sarbanes- Oxley and internal audit projects for large public corporations and for CBIZ Corporate Internal Audit, covering CBIZ Financial Services, CBIZ Employee Services, and CBIZ National Practices business units. Before joining CBIZ, Pat started his accounting career holding various management positions with the Sherwin-Williams Company, ultimately serving as Internal Audit manager. Pat was Corporate Internal Audit Manager for FirstMerit Bank in Akron, OH, and initiated First USA Bank’s (JPMorganChase) internal audit department in Wilmington, DE during a management buyout. Pat has served as CFO and Controller for a Cleveland-based real estate investment management company. In addition, Pat has helped various privately held businesses with outsourced CFO and controller assignments, financial systems development, and business analysis. He has extensive experience in corporate recoveries including crisis management for troubled businesses, turnarounds, and workouts. Pat has a BS degree in Accountancy (cum laude) from Rutgers University. He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the IMA, the Association for Financial Professionals, Toastmasters, the Christian Businessmen’s Committee, and serves on the Board of The Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland.
MARILYN S. DEISNER Marilyn Deisner is the Controller/Finance Manager at AMETEK – Technical & Industrial Products. She’s been with AMETEK since January 2006 and is responsible for the credit and accounts receivable functions, division financials, and Controller of the New York manufacturing plant. Formerly, Marilyn was Division Manager of Financial Analysis for Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. At Saint-Gobain, she had also been the Aerospace Business Unit Controller, a Site Controller, Senior Financial Analyst and Accounting Systems Analyst. Her prior professional experience included positions as inventory planner, budget analyst, and internal auditor at Alside, Inc., a manufacturer of exterior building products. Marilyn has an Executive MBA from Kent State University and a BSA in Accounting from the University of Akron. She is married with a two-year old son, Nate. She also has a dog and a cat, and her hobbies include running, cooking and home décor.
The price for the 2006/2007 Tech Session Dinner Meetings will be $25.00 per meeting. The Pre-Tech Sessions will remain at $10.00 per session. Pre-Tech Sessions will begin and end promptly at 5:25 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. respectively.
The Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation provides corporate management and individual Members with an objective measure of knowledge and competence in the field of management accounting.The CMA is an invaluable credential for professional advancement and for broadening professional skills and perspective.
The Board of Directors has decided to form a
Committee to assist in continuing to improve and
develop the CMA Review Courses offered by the
chapter. Gleim is offering a discounted rate for CMA/CFM review materials to IMA members. The member order form can be accessed at http://akron.imanet.org/CMA/Gleim.pdf. For further information contact: E-mail Steve Law (at Home) or E-mail Steve Law (at Work) or phone (330) 666-8395.
All Regular Meetings
are on the third Wednesday of the Month
Thursday, April 26, 2007 Preconference
Workshop
Afternoon Session (1:15 – 4:15
PM):
Friday, April 27, 2007,
Conference
Keynote Luncheon Speaker (1:00 PM)
Afternoon Session (2:30 – 4:35 PM)
SAVE THE DATES – April 26th and April
27th (Yellow flyers coming in March)
Please contact Roy Howarter if you have a job
available or are looking for an employment
opportunity.
New ! - Credit and Collections opportunity
Roy
Howarter
- Akron IMA Employment Director, 1-
800-321-5583
Looking for a great way to combine management
accounting and fun this summer? Start planning (and
saving) and arranging your vacation time now to
attend the IMA’s 88th Annual Conference &
Exposition at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge resort in
the spectacular Sonoran Desert near Phoenix, AZ
from June 16-20. In addition to exploring the beauty
of a desert resort (including playing in the Sunday
morning IMA/MEF Golf Classic at the Faldo
Championship course), you can earn up to 30.5 CPE
credits plus five pre-conference sessions. Here are
some of the particulars:
Early registration discount. Register by April 6, as
rates go up $100 after that date. Member rate for
the full Conference package is $945 (includes all
Conference sessions Sunday through Wednesday,
access to the Solution Showcase exhibit hall and
networking reception, 3 Conference breakfasts, 3
lunches (including a Brown Bag discussion group
with
70 to 80 possible topics), and the Annual Dinner and
After Party). If your non-accountant spouse/friend
would like to accompany you but enjoy Phoenix on
their own during the day, their only IMA cost is $75
for an exhibit hall guest pass and/or $95 for an
Annual Reception & Dinner guest ticket.
Daily CPE sessions end by 5:15 PM, giving you plenty
of time to enjoy the Arizona nightlife.Attire for
the Conference sessions is business casual (slacks,
polo shirts, sweaters, blazers, blouses, and
comfortable shoes). The IMA Annual Dinner on
Wednesday evening is formal attire optional.
To ensure proper CPE credit, attendees will scan in
and out of each session, covering twelve keynote
sessions, 25 concurrent sessions, seven general
sessions, five concurrent tracks, and –new this year –
a learning track panel discussion to facilitate
dialogue between attendees and experts. Featured
speakers include FASB Chairman Robert Herz, former
IMA Chair and Controller of the State of Nevada Kim
Wallin, and our own Ron Riebe, VP of KeyBank.
Lodging at the Marriott is at a special conference
rate of $149/night. The resort features wildflower
gardens, swimming pools, lakes, waterways, and golf
course or mountain views.
Register soon for a fabulous time in June. For more
information, contact Susan Bender
.
If you’re planning to augment your staff soon, a big
question will be who has more leverage in the current
job market- employers or job seekers? Based on a
new survey, it appears the tide is turning in the favor of
candidates.
The Employment Dynamics and Growth Expectations
(EDGE) Report from Robert Half International and
CareerBuilder.com suggests that the hiring
environment has changed. While employers were in
the driver’s seat earlier in the decade, the pendulum
has now shifted back to job seekers. The study
annually explores employment, hiring and
compensation trends from the perspective of both
hiring managers and employees in an effort to gauge
who has the advantage in the job market.
Companies are currently confronting the dual
challenge of impending baby boomer retirements
along with a shortage of workers to replace them.
Hiring managers are having more difficulty finding
skilled applicants and are increasing starting salaries
and offering bonuses to attract these individuals,
when it is possible. As a result, talented job seekers
with in-demand skills are finding more opportunities
to choose from and have more leverage when
negotiating compensation packages. Following is a
closer look at some of the survey findings:
While salaries are on the rise at many firms, money is
not everything to prospective employees. Forty-five
percent of workers surveyed view health insurance as
the most important benefit, while 24 percent cited
flexible work hours. If you are working with tight salary
budgets, you can still compete for top accounting
talent by heralding other benefits you provide.
Excellent health coverage and perks such as
telecommuting options, training opportunities and
employer-matched retirement-savings plans can add
significant appeal to job offers.
Accountemps is the world’s first and largest
temporary staffing service specializing in the
placement of accounting, finance and bookkeeping
professionals. The company has more than 350
offices throughout North America, Europe, Australia
and New Zealand, and offers online job search
services at
www.accountemps.com.
While reading through the January 15-19, 2007 Ohio
Society of CPAs e-Weekly Bulletin, I noticed that
several Akron chapter IMA members were past
winners of the Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator
Award: Thomas Calderon (2006 - University of Akron),
Michael Pearson (1999 - Kent State University), Ray
Stephens (1995 - then Kent State University, now Ohio
University), and Orville "Bud" Keister (1988 - University
of Akron). Congratulations Thomas, Mike, Ray and
Bud!
Ken Bechtol
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