OMB: What's New? (Local Government Conference)

Diane E. Edelstein, CPA
Partner
Maher Duessel CPAs

Ms. Edelstein graduated, with distinction, from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA in 1988 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting. She has worked in non-profit and governmental auditing for over 20 years.  Diane serves as Single Audit specialist and is the designated audit partner responsible for quality controls required by her firm’s participation in the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center.

Diane was a member of the Executive Committee of the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center from 2007-2011 and is now a member of the Steering Committee for the AICPA NPO conference held each June in Washington DC. Diane has just joined the Practice Monitoring Task Force A-133 Subgroup of the AICPA Peer Review Board.

Diane has lectured for numerous organizations on the topics of Single Audit, and accounting and auditing issues for non-profits.
 
She is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of CPAs.

John R. Good
Executive Director
Ernst and Young LLP

Mr. Good is a frequent speaker on government auditing and accounting topics. He earned a BSBA in Accounting at (Honors Program) from Shippensburg University.

•Attends semi-annual meetings of the National Single Audit roundtable. Liaises with members of the Federal agency Office of Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Management and Budget in that role.

• Served on three AICPA task forces on training, sampling and materiality and internal controls and compliance as a response to the PCIE Report on Single audit Quality.

• Represents firm at meetings of the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center Executive Committee and participates in drafting AICPA comment letters on the OMB Compliance Supplement, Government Auditing Standards and proposed regulations affecting Uniform Guidance audits.

• Reviews the AICPA’s Single Audit Practice Aids and the annual Government Auditing Standards and Single Audit Guide and Risk Alert

• Member of the AICPA State and Local Government Expert Panel and participates in drafting the AICPA’s comment letters on GASB exposure documents as well as liaises with the GASB.

• Reviews the AICPA State and Local Government Audit Guide and Practice Aids and the annual State and Local Government Audit Guide and Risk Alert