October 2011 President's Address

Dear IMA Members,

We successfully kicked off the chapter year with IMA President and CEO Jeff Thomson speaking with area business and colleges and universities.  Jeff stressed that the Global IMA is financially stable, growing on a global basis, and presents opportunity for candidates to self-certify before/after graduation to differentiate themselves from other candidates in the workplace.  Jeff then spoke at our meeting, providing an update on the IMA and took questions from members.  I would like to thank Mid-America President Michele Reagan and Mid-America VP Bruce Hamilton as well as National VP Mary Strautmann for attending and contributing to the meeting.

Beverley Morgan, Director of Corporate Relations, kept Jeff busy with visits to The Medical College of Wisconsin, (I would like to give a special thank-you to Tye Minkler for arranging a meeting with the controller’s staff.) Manpower, Johnson Controls, Caterpillar, Alverno College and Marquette University. 

Looking forward, the chapter has a number of educational opportunities in October.  The Greater Milwaukee Chapter will be holding a breakfast seminar, a webinar and a plant tour during the month in addition to a special two hour technical meeting.  The Mid-America Council is hosting their Fall Education Conference in Rockford, October 21.

Tye Minkler will be presenting “Not Your Father’s Regression” as a breakfast seminar at the Radisson Hotel on Friday October 7 from 7:00 – 8:20 with a breakfast buffet.  Please see additional information in this newsletter and registration on the webpage.

Bruce Adler of BlackLine Software is offering his services for a webinar on behalf of IMA, October 11 at noon local time.  Signup is a two part process and will benefit the Greater Milwaukee Chapter.  Once again please see the registration on the webpage.

The October Technical at Panos Bar and Restaurant, 20290 W. Bluemound Rd Brookfield, WI with Titus as Corporate Sponsor, will recognize our CMA’s and CFM’s in a split format of two hours on ethics.  In the first hour Bob Petersen of Goodwill Industries North Central Wisconsin will be our speaker.  Bob has written a short book titles “BETRAYAL” available for free at http://www.goodwillncw.org/about/betrayal.html in pdf format.   Following Bob’s presentation we will have social period and dinner, followed by Bruce Buslee, CMA, and CFM speaking on Internal Controls.  Due to the two hours session we will begin early Registration will begin at 5:00 with the first speaker at 5:30 followed by social and dinner the second speaker will begin at 7:35  we hope to have you out by 8:30.

New student chapters are gaining attention locally, through the efforts of Barb Sheedy, and Erin Ankebrant (formerly Clark) at Wisconsin Lutheran College and Concordia University of Wisconsin.  If you are interested in the development and ongoing support of the IMA please contact Barb and or Erin to learn of contribution opportunities.

Looking forward to November, John Couper 2010 CFO of the year, recently retired from Charter Manufacturing will be speaking on the amount and type financial information to share with employees in a privately held company.  This meeting will be held at Alioto's Bar & Restaurant, 3041 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa with Access Information Management as Corporate Sponsor.

Come join us in October.

Regards,

Forrest Ramsel CMA, CPA, MBA

(414) 313-7140

Forrest@SummitCFOs.com