Governmental Accounting & Auditing Conference (E1406130)

John F. Dailey Jr., CPA, was partner and ethics compliance officer at Bowman & Company LLP. Specializing in the audits of governmental agencies, he was the partner-in-charge of five municipal, two school district, three charter school and twelve fire district audit engagements. He has acted as an expert consultant on the establishment, consolidation and dissolution of fire districts. In addition, Mr. Dailey has served the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Division of Local Government Services as a member of the Registered Municipal Accountants Steering Committee, charged with the responsibility of revising the Requirements of Audit for New Jersey municipalities. Mr. Dailey has authored articles that have been published in several professional journals, and speaks regularly as a discussion leader for continuing professional education seminars.

Mr. Dailey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) and the New Jersey Registered Municipal Accountants Association. His professional accomplishments include a term as president of the NJCPA (2002/03). In addition, Mr. Dailey served as a member of the NJCPA executive committee for five years, and has also served as vice president, treasurer and board of trustees member. In December 2009, Mr. Dailey was awarded the Society’s Distinguished Service Award for “Exceeding Expectations and Setting the Standard of Excellence for Others to Follow.” He has co–authored revisions to the New Jersey Law and Ethics course sponsored by the NJCPA and serves as one the of the Society’s discussion leaders for the New Jersey Law and Ethics course. Mr. Dailey has served the AICPA as a member of council and currently serves as a member of the Institute’s Professional Ethics Executive Committee. In March 2005, Mr. Dailey was appointed to serve as a member of the New Jersey State Board of Accountancy.

Mr. Dailey earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Villanova University. In 1997, he received a Certificate of Educational Achievement in governmental accounting and auditing from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Kimberly M. Hancy, CPA, is a senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP, where she focuses on the audits of governmental entities. Ms. Hancy is also a resident in the firm’s Professional Practice Auditing Group, regularly fielding questions on various technical matters. She is a frequent speaker on GASB accounting and compliance audit topics for the firm. Ms. Hancy is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA) and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA). She received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Lehigh University.

Matthew Jadacki joined EY after 30 years of public service as a senior executive with the Federal government, with the last 20 directly related to FEMA and disaster-related activities. He has managed compliance and performance audits of disaster funds in almost every State and FEMA region. Mr. Jadacki has worked on dozens of major disasters including Hurricane Katrina, the Northridge Earthquake, the Space Shuttle crash, Midwest floods, and Hurricane Andrew. His reports identified hundreds of millions in ineligible and disallowed expenses and non-compliance with laws and regulations, including significant violations of Federal procurement regulations, internal control weaknesses, and related project accounting issues. As a result of his work, he has testified as an expert witness before both Senate and House committees more than 30 times on various topics, including disaster management, fraud, contracting issues, budget, insurance, improper payments, disaster preparedness, and other related issues. Mr. Jadacki held several senior financial and emergency management positions in the Federal government. He was Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administration Officer for the National Weather Service, a component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He spent 15 years in FEMA in various senior level positions, including Chief Financial Officer and Audit Director for the Office of Inspector General. Mr. Jadacki played an instrumental role in the integrating FEMA programs, budget, and financial operations into the Department of Homeland Security in 2003.

Matthew D. Jessup, J.D., is an attorney with McManimon, Scotland & Baumann, LLC, focusing almost exclusively on public finance transactions. He’s participated in the issuance of hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds and notes for countless counties, municipalities and public authorities. His recent successes include the financing of a municipal justice complex through the issuance of government-subsidized Build America Bonds and the multi-issuer financing of the Bayonne Crossing Shopping Center through the issuance of payment-in-lieu-of tax bonds. His expertise spans the arena of public finance, including general obligation and revenue obligations, public/private development financing and New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust financing. Mr. Jessup is admitted to the bars of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He received a B.B.A from The George Washington University; a J.D from Villanova University School of Law; and an M.B.A. from Villanova University.

Dean Mead is GASB Senior Research Manager, and Coordinator for the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council. He oversees the GASB’s research agenda, manages external research, and coordinates stakeholder outreach and communication.

Dean is the author of the GASB’s User Guide Series and other plain-language publications. In 2015, Dean received the Award for Excellence from the National Federation of Municipal Analysts for his efforts to educate analysts about governmental accounting through writing and teaching.

Dean also is an adjunct member of the accounting faculty at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, where he teaches governmental accounting & auditing, governmental financial analysis, and advanced topics in governmental accounting. He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting. Prior to joining the GASB, he was assistant director of research at the Citizens Budget Commission in New York and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Michael Mindlin, CPA, M.S.T., is a planning associate at the Office of School Finance for the New Jersey Department of Education. He has been a member of the Fiscal Policy and Planning group since 2001. Mr. Mindlin’s primary responsibilities include accounting and financial reporting guidance for districts and independent public accountants; maintaining the school district Chart of Accounts; issuance of approved indirect cost rates; and school district travel procedures.

A partner, certified public accountant and certified government financial manager, Daniel Murrin has over 34 years of experience in the public sector audit services arena. Prior to his return to Ernst & Young in October 1992 as a Partner, Mr. Murrin was a Professional Accounting Fellow at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for two years. Mr. Murrin’s fellowship term at the GAO coincided with the passage and implementation of the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, which reemphasized financial management in the federal government. Mr. Murrin serves as a resource within E&Y on public sector auditing issues and liaison to the Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Federal Inspectors General community. Mr. Murrin assists in developing and interpreting guidance for our teams in providing audit and advisory services in the federal, state, local and grantee communities and more broadly in the application of government auditing standards. Mr. Murrin assists our teams in providing audit and advisory services to a number of federal agencies, including audit services to the Department of Health and Human Services, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States Postal Service and Amtrak. Mr. Murrin has assisted myriad agencies as they enhanced their internal controls over the last two decades, applying criteria from the GAO Green Book and implementation guidance embedded in related OMB Circulars. In addition to successively improved audit opinions, agency implementation of recommendations included in work products associated with these efforts have led to improved internal controls. Mr. Murrin is a frequent speaker on issues impacting the public sector and has served on committees, in board, officer, or other leadership roles for the Greater Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, the AICPA and Association of Government Accountants (AGA). His leadership in the implementation of government auditing standards and the CFO’s Act is recognized in the federal financial management community, including receipt of the Andy Barr Award from AGA in 2008, the Distinguished Service to the Financial Management Community Award from the Washington DC Chapter and the 2011 President’s Award from the Greater Washington Society of CPAs. Mr. Murrin received his B.S. in Economics with highest honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.