2022 November 15 & 16 Seminar Speakers

Reggie Beasley, CGFM is a Deputy Director for the Financial Audit Division of the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts. He has over thirty-five years of experience with governmental auditing and accounting. He is an engagement lead for audits of school districts, regional educational service agencies, universities, and state agencies. He performs concurrent reviews of audits while serving as a mentor and providing for the development of lead auditors.

Sunila Birmingham is a Senior II with the Financial Audits team of the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts. She has been with the department for 15+ years. She performs desk reviews of audits and other financial reports of local governments within the State of Georgia that are required to be performed in accordance with Official Code of Georgia 36-81-7 and 50-8-38. She is also part of the team that audits the State of Georgia’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. Most recently she has joined the Professional Standards and Practices Division.

Kimberly Carter is the Community Finance Division Director currently serves as the Division Director of the Community Finance Division at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA).  In this role, Mrs. Carter oversees the administration of an array of community finance programs in such areas as federal grant programs, state grant programs, oversight of loan portfolios in multiple programmatic areas, credit underwriting, administration of multiple state tax credit programs, and a variety of designations established by the Department.

Frank Crawford, CPA is President of Crawford & Associates, P.C., Certified Public Accountants, an accounting firm located in Oklahoma City, OK. The firm specializes in providing auditing, consulting, and accounting services solely to governmental entities and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center. Over the last 36 years, Frank, as President of Crawford & Associates, has provided a variety of audit and accounting services to all sizes and types of governmental entities.

Cathy Fredette, CPA is a Senior Auditor I on the Financial Audit team. She started at the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts by performing financial audits of state agencies, colleges and LEA’s. She then joined the Professional Standards and Practices Division where she prepared the Georgia Lottery Report, Government Emergency Fund Report, state agency budget report and reviewed LEA audit reports. In 2006 she began working with local government where she reviews the annual audit reports of local governments and non profit organizations.

Jackson Lilly is a Research and Data Analyst that has a master’s degree in applied economics from Georgia State University focused in Environmental, Urban and Regional Economics. For the past 3 years he has held various research-oriented positions in the Department of Community Affairs and the Department of Economic Development working on programs involving local public finance, planning and economic development, and tourism.

Jackie Neubert, CPA, CGFM is the Deputy Director of the Nonprofit and Local Government Audit Section of the Professional Standards and Practices Division of the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts. In this position, Jackie helps to oversee a team that works to improve the financial reporting of approximately 800 Georgia local governments as well as approximately 500 nonprofit organizations that contract with the State of Georgia. Jackie has over 30 years of experience in governmental auditing and accounting. Jackie is a member of the Georgia Society of CPAs and the AICPA.

Eric Moody, CPA is a Manager on the Financial Audits team of the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts. Eric has been with the department for almost 18 years. He reviews annual audit reports of both nonprofit organizations that contract with the state and local governments, which include counties, consolidated governments, municipalities, other political subdivisions (local authorities), and regional commissions. Most recently he has joined the Professional Standards and Practices Division.

Chris Pembrook, MBA, CGAP, CPA, CRFAC is a Partner/Shareholder at Crawford & Associates, P.C., in Oklahoma City. The accounting firm is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and specializes in providing auditing, consulting, and accounting services solely to governmental entities. Prior to joining the firm, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Oklahoma Police Pension & Retirement System and the Deputy Director of the Local Government & Special Services Division of the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector’s Office.

Juli Yoder is Manger of Planning within the Office of Community Planning, Research, and Geoanalytics at Georgia DCA in Atlanta.  At DCA, Juli manages the local programs including Comprehensive Plans, Service Delivery Strategies (SDS), Capital Improvement Elements (CIE), and Annexation Arbitration requests.  Prior to joining DCA in 2019, she was a Senior Planner for Henry County, Georgia.  Juli earned a master’s degree from the University of Florida in Urban and Regional Planning with a focus on sustainability and is AICP certified.