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In July 1975 the name was changed to the Association of Government Accountants after an overwhelming vote from its members. [3] In November 1990, President Bush signed into law the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 which had been embodied by the AGA. It defined the concept with the creation of the Federal Financial Management Task Force in 1983.
A Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) is a professional certification issued by the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) in the United States.It was created in 1994 to provide a professional standard of financial expertise and ethics in government and a standard by which government financial management professionals are measured.
The original predecessor of GFOA was the National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers which was formed in February 1906. Its name was changed in December 1931 to the International Association of Municipal Finance Officers. In June 1932, the name became the Municipal Finance Officers Association (MFOA).
In 1927, the AGA merged with the National Gas Association to help the AGA's member companies which depended on manufactured gas to make a smooth transition to natural gas. In 1935, Congress passed the Public Utility Act and broke up the holding company that dominated much of the country's utility industry; this law continued to be enforced ...
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The 19th World Congress of Accountants was held in Rome, Italy, on November 10–13, 2014.The theme was 2020 Vision: Learning from the Past, Building the Future. [10] For this Congress, IFAC selected the Consiglio Nazionale dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili, an Italy- based organization and IFAC member body [11] as the hosting organization.
The America First Political Action Conference in Detroit was canceled, its leader said Saturday.
The Association's centennial volume, Years of Transition: The American Accounting Association 1991-2016, is a "contextualized history of the AAA, with close attention paid to the AAA’s interactions with its institutional, economic, educational, technical, professional, regulatory, and social environment."