• GASB 45 - WHAT'S NEXT?
  HEALTH CARE REFORM - WHAT'S FIRST?
  
  
• Funding of OPEB Benefits
  Trusting your Trust Fund

Are you in compliance with GASB 45: Many of the  deadlines have come and gone, liability calculations should be done, now what are you going to do about the problem.  Get the practical over view of what should be done about the accounting for an OPEB liability and the proper structure for an OPEB Trust in case you are funding.  In addition, find out what the actuaries think about the most effective techniques for reducing the OPEB liability through plan design changes.  The presentation will include an update on the new Federal program created by the Health Care Reform legislation that will reimburse employers who provide health insurance to retirees not eligible for Medicare.

Speakers:

Daniel J. Rhodes, ASA, MAAA
Senior Health Benefits Analyst
SEGAL Company

Mark Abrahams, CPA
President
The Abrahams Group

The meeting is Free…just send an email to Marilyn Gordon to facilitate the count mgordon@easton.ma.us

Marshfield Receives GFOA Financial Reporting Award
With award (from left to right) Town Administrator Rocco Longo, Selectman John Hall, Treasurer Collector Nancy Holt, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Michael Maresco, Selectman Patricia Reilly and Town of Barnstable Finance Director Mark Milne.

   
The GFOA awards a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program (CAFR Program) to encourage and assist state and local governments to go beyond the minimum requirements of generally accepted accounting principles to prepare comprehensive annual financial reports that evidence the spirit of transparency and full disclosure and then to recognize individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal.