If your person is really new at the job, attending this workshop  would seem to
me to be really daunting and discouraging.. It is hard to assimilate lots of new
and complicated technical information that is not intimately tied in with your
institutions activities. There is no point of reference. But maybe it is just my
poor brain that has this problem. Kari
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barbara Gray [SMTP:xxxxxx@COFC.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:27 PM
> To:   xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
> Subject:      [RESADM-L] NACM Conference Experience???
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> We have a new grants accountant and would like to give her some
> professional development opportunities.  We do plan to send her to NCURA
> fundamentals as soon as we can to get the big picture of university
> research administration.  In the meantime, I'm wondering about the
> quality of a conference that I just received a flyer for.  It is a 2.5
> day conference in June in Baltimore, called "How to Get Paid by Uncle
> Sam," that is sponsored by the National Association of Credit
> Management.   I am not a financial type and I'm unfamiliar with this
> association, so I don't know if this would be a good conference for her.
>
> The conference is billed as a "grants and research finance and
> administration seminar" and covers such topics as PMS, electronic 272
> filing, submitting interim and final financial reports, DOD's electronic
> billing system; allowable costs, government invoice inquiry screens and
> systems accessble throug the net, submitting public vouchers to DFAS
> directly, electronic updates (EDI, EFT, etc.), prompt payment act and
> getting paid interest when not paid on time, DEd's business practices
> and reporting re: student financial aid, NSF Fastlane business
> functions, SF34, DD250, ONR billing rates and payment process, OMB
> circulars, etc.
>
> The registration fee is $550.
>
> If any of you have attended one of these NACM conferences, I'd like to
> know how you rate them, if you think this one would be appropriate for
> someone new to grants accounting (but not general accounting), and if it
> is worth the money.
>
> As always, thanks!
> Barbara
>
>
>
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