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North Texas IAPP
Current Minutes
INTERNATIONAL
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE PROFESSIONALS-NORTH
TEXAS
CHAPTER
Quarterly
meeting was held on February 20, 2008 at Snelling Professional Services Inc in
Dallas
,
Texas
.
Lunch
and networking started at 11:00 a.m.
Sandy
Champion, President of the NTIAPP Chapter, called the meeting to order at 11:30
a.m.
Sandy
thanked Steve Scotti and Holly Hay with Snelling Professional Services for
hosting and to Don Johnson with Allstate Insurance Company for providing lunch
for our quarterly meeting. Introductions
were made and non-members were invited to fill out membership applications.
Don Johnson
, Vice President of the NTIAPP Chapter, introduced Tami O’Quinn, Senior
Systems Analyst, Project Manager with Sabre-Holdings Inc.
Tami gave an informative presentation on vPayments.
Travelocity uses vPayments. See
attached PowerPoint
presentation.
Don Johnson
stated that Allstate investigated vPayments in
2007. After eliminating government
entities, employees and service vendors, other
vendors were matched to take the vPayment. He
stated that after analysising the potential rebates and implementation cost over
3 years, it
would be worth pursuing, but due to other
corporate initiatives Allstate put the project on hold.
Chapter
Business:
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Membership
Update -Layne Littlejohn, Membership Chairperson of the NTIAPP Chapter,
stated that we currently have 221 members in our chapter, including 6 new
members; Dee Davis-Owens with Crossmark, Paul Estep VCF, Susan Gore with
American Heart Assocation, Tom Walker with Open Text, Misti Mendoza with
McKesson Corp and Kimberly Clark with Snelling Professional Services Inc.
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Website
Update –
Sandy
stated that Barbara Coakley, Webmaster of the NTIAPP Chapter, is working
with the national office because the server at the national office had been
changed.
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New
CAPP Certification Study Manual –
Sandy
reported the national office needs help in developing a new study manual for
the CAPP test. There will be
seven domains. CAPP members
could earn 5 CAPP credits if they submitted questions for the manual.
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IAPP
Forum –
Sandy
stated that the 2008 IAPP National Forum would be held April 20th
through the 24th in
San Diego
California
. She stated that Frank Abagnale
and Paul Sarbane would be speaking at the forum.
The
2008 IAPP North Texas Chapter meeting schedule is as follows:
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Wednesday,
May 21 at Michaels Stores, Inc and hosted by Concur.
TOPIC –
Layne Littlejohn
“Key Performance Indicators”
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Wednesday,
August 20 at and will be hosted by KPMG, the topic discussed will be an “IRS
agent and 1099s.”
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Wednesday,
November 19 at Allstate Insurance. Need at food sponsor. The
topic will be decided at the May meeting
Sandy
stated that Don Johnson had accepted another
position at Allstate Insurance outside of Accounts Payable and would be stepping
down as vice president on January 1, 2009.
Congratulations
to the following people who won door prizes:
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Vanda
Jobe with Alliance Data won an IAPP “We ‘Owe’ Everything to You” bag
which included “My Life & The Principles for Success” given by Ross
Perot, a luggage spotter given by SunTrust, a single slice cutter given by
CorPay, a keychain calculator given by Digiscribe, a watch and bendable golf
course given by MasterCard, a Frisbee given by FedEx and a pen given by
Facility IQ.
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Louise
Costa with Concentra Inc won a Blockbuster bag which included a Frisbee,
water bottle, and a pocket radio given by Blockbuster, a sticky note pad
given by US Bank, a yo-yo given by Balance Consulting, an electric ball
given by Stellent, a squishy head given by IAPP and a pen and calculator in
case given by Broniec.,
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Kim McGee
with Freeman won a gift cup full of Snelling
goodys.
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Denise
Stackhouse with KPMG won an IAPP bag which included a calculator given by
Universal, a magnifying glass given by Broniec, a car sunglass holder given
by US Bank, a pen with belt hook given by Fujitsu, a bubble massager given
by Apex Analytix, a keychain with flashlight given by Audit Technology
Group, a star shaped note holder given by Advantage IQ and a 1939 Big Ben
Travel Alarm clock given by Dr Pepper/7UP.
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Don
Johnson with Allstate won a Bottomline Technologies bag which included a
teddy bear given by Broniec, a Frisbee given by Blockbuster, 2 mooing cows
given by Connolly Consulting, a squeezing baseball and tennis ball given by
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a yo-yo given by Direct Commerce, 2 rubber balls
given by Concur Technologies, a slinky given by Travelocity, a bendable golf
course given by MasterCard, and a softball given by Payables Analysis &
Refund Recovery.
The
chapter meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Regards,
Kim McGee
Historian-North
Texas
IAPP Chapter
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