Great Lakes Chapter Virtual Annual Meeting

Please join us for the Great Lakes Chapter Annual Meeting, being held virtually from Thursday, June 24- Friday, June 25. The meeting will discuss tax and regulatory updates, and other important topics. CPE credit is also available. The daily outlines for both days are listed below:

AGENDA (CPE: 8 Hours)

Thursday, June 24 

• 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Opening Remarks and Introductions  
• 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM: Every Accounting Function is Ripe for Automation
  David Loyd, Director of Internal Audit at Growmark
  CPE=1 Credit Hour
  Field of Study: Accounting 
• 10:20 AM – 12:00 PM: Economic and Lending Update
  Jim Shanahan, Vice President of Financial Regulatory Compliance at CoBank, and Tanner Ehmke, Lead Economist of Dairy and Specialty Crops at CoBank
  CPE = 2 Credit Hours
  Field of Study: Economics
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Break 
• 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM: Tax Update
  Tara Guler, Senior Manager at Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP, and Rebecca Smith, Director of Cooperatives at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
  CPE = 1 Credit Hour
  Field of Study: Taxes 
• 1:50 PM – 3:00 PM: Business Meeting  

Friday, June 25: 

• 8:30 AM– 9:20 AM: Transitioning and Tracking Employees
  Cliff Hammond, Attorney for Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, PC
  CPE = 1 Credit Hour
  Field of Study: Business Law
• 9:20 AM– 10:10 AM: Accounting and Auditing Update
  Mark Juedes, CPA and Manager at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
  CPE = 1 Credit Hour
  Field of Study: Accounting
• 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM: Break 
• 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM: Political and Regulatory Update
  Chuck Lippstreu, President of the Michigan Agri-Business Association
  CPE = 1 Credit Hour
  Field of Study: Communications and Marketing
• 11:20 AM – 12:10 PM: Using Tableau for Business Intelligence
  Kent J. Schultz, EMBA of the Business Intelligence Guru at BIG Consulting, LLC
  CPE = 1 Credit Hour
  Field of Study: Management Services
• 12:10 PM – 12:20 PM: Closing Remarks & Adjourn 

CPE Credits
The National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives (NSAC) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor (#103068) of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.