Adapting to the New Reality for Local Government (Not-for-Profit & Government Accounting Conference)

Cindy Bergvall, CPA
Director
Bee, Bergvall and Company PC

Cindy Bergvall is a director with the accounting and consulting firm of Bee, Bergvall, and Company, PC and a strategic consultant with the firm’s affiliate, the Catalyst Center for Nonprofit Management.  In addition to directing the firm’s audit and accounting staff, Cindy has provided consulting services to municipalities in the areas of GASB standard implementation; municipal payroll tax issues; capital planning and management; tax collection issues; and long term financial planning.

Cindy has spoken for the PICPA, GFOA, PSATS, PSAB and PA Municipal Managers Association.  Topics have included Using Technology More Efficiently, GASB #34 Implementation, Understanding the Audit Trail, Tax Collector Training, and Management Consulting Services.  She has also published articles in the Borough News, PA Township News, and Township Update.

Cindy currently serves as a Board Member for CB Cares Educational Foundation and the First Savings Charitable Foundation.  She is a member of the C12 Group; CB Drug Free Task Force; GFOA; PICPA Local Government Committee; and the PICPA Fiscal Responsibility Task Force.

Pamela W. Baker, CPA, CGFM

Partner

Barbacane Thornton & Company LLP

Ms. Pamela W. Baker, audit partner, is responsible for the firm’s development and administration of the nonprofit and governmental client base. She is a 1980 graduate of Lynchburg College and is a certified public accountant licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina.

Ms. Baker has, for over thirty years, devoted her career to the governmental field. As a Virginia state auditor, she served on local government unit task force to implement a statewide uniform chart of accounts. Additionally, she was involved in the federally mandated pilot program for implementation of the Single Audit Act of 1984.

Ms. Baker successfully advanced to a supervisory level with the organization, responsible for supervising a six-person audit team conducting financial and compliance audits of major universities, hospitals and cities. Ms. Baker then relocated to a position in public accounting to a North Carolina firm with municipal and nonprofit clients. In her four-year tenure, she was responsible for standardizing the audit department, ensuring compliance with federal, state and local guidelines and for further development of a market niche in government and nonprofits. At the time of her resignation, Ms. Baker had successfully contracted with the county government, including all local municipalities. She successfully assisted the first municipality in the area to secure the Certificate of achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting issued by the Government Finance Officers Association.