2018Q1 Reports: Treasurer

ACL Treasurer's report, February 2018

For the first time in 10 years, ACL has a new treasurer (David Yarowsky) as of 1/1/18. Past treasurer Graeme Hirst has been extremely helpful and engaged in the transition, and Priscilla, Graeme and I had an intensive 2-day meeting in February for knowledge transfer and forward planning. Tremendous thanks are due to Graeme for his decade of distinguished and tireless service to ACL.

In 2017, because of the quite long process in getting full financial data for prior year conferences, such as missing sponsorships and bills sent to us many months late, bookkeeping for 2016 was sent to our accountants in July 2017, and we were able to submit our IRS return in November 2017 (the deadline for extended extensions). The return was sent to the Exec at the time for information and approval.

I will be working with our bookkeepers (Young Associates) and Priscilla, and hopefully a continuation of invaluable advice and institutional memory from Graeme, in the process of reconciling and closing the books for 2017 this spring, but it will be some time before the work is complete. We are hoping to have the results ready in time for our accountants and auditors (Nisivoccia LLP) to file our U.S. IRS and New Jersey returns by the regular unextended deadline of 15 May.

When the work is complete, we will make a full report to the ACL Exec, including the results of our 2017 conferences, and a report to the membership at the business meeting at ACL 2018 in Melbourne.