Wicomico County Internal Auditor, Deanne Walker, CPA is extremely pleased with Five chosen members of the new audit committee who will serve as a key control to the independence and governance for the Internal Auditor. They help the internal auditor validate that the Executive and Senior Management are fulfilling their financial and http://www.answers.com/topic/fiduciary fiduciary responsibilities to the public. Such an organizational structure and reporting responsibility encourages an environment of free and http://www.answers.com/topic/unrestricted unrestricted access enables the County Council and the public to gain assurance about the quality of financial reporting and audit processes. A Strong and effective audit committee through their planning, review, and monitoring activities, can recognize problem areas and take corrective action before such problems impact the County's financial statements.AUDIT COMMITTEE MEMBERS BIOGRAPHY
Joe Giordano
Joe Giordano, Owner of Consulting, Training, and Development Services has over thirty three (33) years experience in the human resources and leadership development arenas. His vast experience includes a twenty (20) year career as a Personnel Administrator and Training Supervisor with the United States Army; five (5) years as the Human Resources Administrator for the Wicomico County Department of Social Services; two (2) years as an Employment Specialist with K&L Microwave; and six (6) years as owner of Consulting, Training, and Development Services. His areas of expertise include leadership skills development; human resources based training and consulting, workplace harassment and discrimination awareness training and investigations, and job readiness instruction.
Joe has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of the State of New York and a Masters Degree in Public Administration with a Human Resources Management Specialization from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Phyllis White
Phyllis is a graduate of Salisbury University. She became a CPA in 1982 and worked as an internal auditor at Chesapeake Utilities from 1982-1984. At that point She was hired as an accountant for the Wicomico County Board of Education. After two years She became Accounting Manager, a position She held until my retirement on Dec. 31, 2008. During that time She "survived" over 100 audits by local firms, state auditors and federal auditors.
Ralph Capen
Ralph Capen is currently the IT Auditing Manager for Perdue Farms and comes to us with a long and varied IT background in many industries and companies. Ralph and his wife Alane (currently president of Coastal Hospice) moved to the eastern shore in 2005 from the Dallas area. Ralph is a retired US Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant with 28+ years of combined active duty and reserve service. Ralph’s hobbies are flying, sailing, and 5 (soon to be 6) granddaughters.
Rita Davis
Rita Davis has over 25 years experience as an accountant. Throughout her career, She served in a leadership role as Finance Director, Partner and Accounting Manager as well as more tactical positions at the junior and middle management levels. Having played a pivotal role in reducing long-term debt, defining and implementing updated information technology infrastructure and managing the financial health of a non-profit mental health corporation, She has enjoyed the business process at every state.
Rita Davis’s direct experience includes: non-profit financial management; public accounting and consulting for small and medium businesses; general accounting in manufacturing, transportation and academic environments and regional program management for the Special Olympics. I hold a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University, an MBA in Management from Wilmington University and a BS in Business Administration from Salisbury University. I am a Certified Public Accountant.
Robert Stephens, Jr., CPA, CES, MS,
A partner at Twilley, Rommel & Stephens, P.A., Robert leads the Firm's Tax Department. He joined the Firm in 1986 and has spent over 20 years in the industry. Bob earned his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Salisbury State University in 1984 and a Masters in Taxation in 1985 from the University of Baltimore. His clients include real estate developers and investors, construction contractors, home builders, and professional and technical service firms.
Bob specializes in tax research and planning, compliance, representation before federal and state tax authorities, and transactional analysis. He utilizes his outstanding technical background and years of experience to develop innovative and creative tax planning alternatives and solutions for clients.
In 2001, Bob started a 1031 exchange company called Delmarva 1031 Exchange Service LLC which does 1031 and reverse exchanges for clients all over the country. Bob is a Certified Exchange Specialist, a designation that can be claimed by only a few hundred people around the country.
I applaud the choice of Bob Stephens to this group. I don't know the others, but know that because Mr. Stephens is involved I will trust the result as true and accurate.
ReplyDeleteIn theory this should work, right? Not at all! The auditor doesn't have "Free and Unrestricted" access to all of the county's finance and accounting recorded. They only get what they are given and while most of the County departments are cooperating with Mrs. Walker certain departments are not...Remember the Times article when the County Finance & Budget Department didn't want to hand over records because of "Confidential and Integrity" reasons? Sounds like there is something to hide, huh? The majority of the folks in the finance and budget department have a grudge with Mrs. Walker because she was offered the position and now gets to watch over them! Personally, I feel that the finance and budget department has a couple of disgrutle employees that treat their coworkers like dog sh!t. Those few employees are the very reason for all the issues that arise when trying to get something done in accounting.
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