Mini Course on Governmental Fund Accounting with Stephen Gauthier

Join the Center for Municipal Finance for a three-day mini course on governmental fund accounting with Stephen Gauthier, who was the director of the Technical Services Center of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of the United States and Canada, located in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Gauthier's talks will focus on governmental fund accounting. 

Sessions will be held each day Wednesday through Friday, May 10 to 12 from 12:00 to 1:15 pm. Attendance at all sessions is encouraged, but not required. 

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP here by May 4. 

About the Speaker

Stephen J. Gauthier was director of the Technical Services Center of the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) in Chicago, Illinois. The Technical Service Center is responsible for all of GFOA’s member services involving accounting, auditing, and financial reporting, which includes performing technical reviews of the more than 4,000 financial reports and budgets of state and local governments submitted each year to GFOA’s professional recognition programs.

Gauthier was the editor of GFOA’s governmental accounting, auditing, and financial reporting newsletter GAAFR Review and is a regular contributor to GFOA’s magazine Government Finance Review. He also is the author of numerous GFOA publications, including Governmental Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting (Blue Book), Evaluating Internal Controls: A Local Government Manager’s Guide, and many titles in GFOA's Elected Officials Guide series.

Before joining GFOA, Gauthier served as the research and technical review manager for the Tennessee Division of State Audit in Nashville. Gauthier received his BA degree from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He holds an MA degree from the University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee, and both an MA and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois CPA Society.

Questions? Please contact akass1@uchicago.edu.