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Meeting
Minutes
INTERNATIONAL
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE PROFESSIONALS-NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER
Quarterly
meeting held on
November 17, 2004
. There were 45 attendees at this
meeting.
Lunch
and networking started at
11:00
.
Don
called the meeting to order at
11:00
. The food had not arrived, so John
Pollock with Resulte’ introduced the founder and CEO of Resulte’, Rex
Kurzius. He gave a brief introduction about Accounts Payable in today’s
employment market. Rex stated
several Job Recovery Facts, one example that
Dallas
’ unemployment rate had fallen from 6.7% in June to 5.7% in September.
Rex discussed the A/P Position breakdown, number of A/P positions by year
and the 2004 A/P positions at Resulte’ compared to total positions.
Rex also discussed accounting best practices that has been implemented at
Resulte’ Universal. (Click
here to view the Power Point presentation)
Don
Johnson, Vice President of the NTIAPP, welcomed the attendees.
Sandy Champion, President of the NTIAPP, thanked Sabre for facilitating
the meeting and Resulte’ for providing lunch for our quarterly meeting.
Don
reported that as of
November 15, 2004
the North Texas Chapter of IAPP had 175 members with 5 new members.
The new members are James Cook with American Express Tax and Business
Services, Robin Hood with KPMG, LLP, Gwen
Perkins with Army & Air Force Exchange Service,
Amy Shaw with Douglass Distributing and Janet Taylor with The Willow
Creek Group. Introductions were made
and non-members were invited to fill out membership applications.
Sandy Champion stated that anyone that becomes members of IAPP before the
first of the year will receive a complimentary CAPP certification study manual
with their membership.
Sandy
asked if everyone
had filled out a ballot for the election of officers for the next two year term,
January 1, 2005
through
December 31, 2006
. She commented that there was an
additional officer position formed. It
is for chairing a membership committee.
Kimberly Addison with Resulte’ has volunteered to fill the
position to network with area businesses to promote IAPP and increase
membership.
Sandy
stated that the North Texas Chapter of IAPP was the largest Chapter, besides a
Chapter that takes 6 states, and we are only 1/3 of the State.
Sandy
also stated that Barbara Coakley, that could not be at the meeting today,
expressed interest to continue as Webmaster.
Dennis
Fields with DocuData, introduced George Magnuson with the Rockwall Police
Department. Mr. Magnuson gave a
presentation on Identity Theft. He
gave a very informative presentation on how to protection yourself from identity
theft. (Click here to view the Power
Point presentation)
Sandy
announced that all
current officers were re-elected to another term to serve from
January 1, 2005
through
December 31, 2006
. List of officers are:
Sandy Champion, President
Don Johnson, Vice President
Jan Wallace, Secretary
Kim McGee, Historian
Barbara Coakley, Webmaster
Kimberly Addison, Membership (newly formed office)
Chapter business was discussed:
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Education
Committee
– Melvina Floyd, member of the Education Committee, reported 52
individuals sat for the CAPP in the Fall window, which brought the IAPP
total to 474.
Sandy
stated that she and Melvina will be traveling to
Orlando
for an Education Committee and would be giving a report at the next meeting.
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Membership
Promotion –
Sandy
stated that IAPP was promoting a membership drive until the end of the year
to receive CAPP Certification Study Manual, a value of $50.00 for new
members.
Sandy
also stated that with Kimberly Addison promoting IAPP in our daily contacts
of local businesses will also increase our local chapter’s membership.
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A/P
Recognition Week –
October 18-22, 2004
–
Sandy
stated that the A/P Recognition Week moved from March to October this year.
She asked if anyone celebrated in October and asked if anyone did
anything special. One idea was
that the AP department did a personality trait, which was very interesting.
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APA
- AP/Disbursements Preparing of Year-End &2005–
Sandy
stated that she attended the 1 day seminar.
She said that there were no changes to 1099 for this year and that
the course was very informative. She
stated that Steve Scotti, also with Wyndham International, was at the
Balance Consulting 1099 course that was being held today
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Sandy
stated that the
next meeting would be
February 16, 2005
to be held at Oxy Inc., hosted by Janet Taylor with Willow Creek Group.
The discussion topic will be Automation in AP presented by Dennis
Fields with DocuData.
May 18, 2005
August 17, 2005
November 16, 2005
Sandy
stated that if any
of the members had a question that would like to go out to the membership, email
the question to her and then she would send the question to the membership.
This helps eliminates vendors getting email addresses to solicit
business. Jan Wallace stated that
the discuss group found on the IAPP website was an excellent resource for
networking.
Congratulations to the following people who won door prizes:
Resulte’ International gave everyone chocolate covered sunflower seeds.
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Toni
Jones, Orix Capital Markets, won a t-shirt given by Resulte’ Universal, a
“Dawn of the Dead” DVD given by Blockbuster, a $25 TGI Friday’s gift
certificate given by Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, a thermos given by
Freeman, 2 lighted magnifying cards given by IAPP, a bag of peanut brittle
given by Brittle Twins Candies, and a tote bag given by Perot Systems.
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Sandy
Champion, Wyndham International, won a pouch, squeeze ball, bendable stick,
post-its, world globe finger ball, and a tool kit given by Concentra, 2
lighted magnifying cards given by IAPP, an insulated lunch bag given by Hunt
Oil Company, a bag of peanut brittle given by Brittle Twins Candies, and a
tote bag given by Wyndham International.
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Louise
Costa, Concentra, won 2 stainless thermal mugs given by Trammell Crow
Company, coasters given by Texas Industries, a $20 gift card given by
Michael’s, 2 lighted magnifying cards given by IAPP, a bag of peanut
brittle given by Brittle Twin Candies, and a tote bag given by Wyndham
International.
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Dennis
Fields, DocuData, won a mouse pad given by Freeman, binded note pad given by
Perot Systems, Cross pen given by KeM, plastic covered mug given by Trammell
Crow Company, CD holder given by First Choice Power, 2 lighted magnifying
cards given by IAPP, and a tote bag given by Wyndham International.
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Don
Johnson, AllState, won a coffee mug and puzzle given by Sabre, mini maglite
given by Hunt Oil Company, mouse pad with calculator and coasters given by
DocuData, note pad and pen given by Perot Systems Healthcare, bag clip given
by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2 lighted magnifying cards given by IAPP and a
tote bag given by Wyndham International.
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Melvina
Floyd, Brittle Twins Candies, won a sweatshirt given by Thomson Fast-Tax,
travel mug given by Resulte’ Universal, hairbrush from Sally’s Beauty,
calculator keychain given by Carter Burgess, 2 lighted magnifying cards
given by IAPP and a tote bag given by Wyndham International.
Sandy
thanked everyone
for coming to the meeting and the Roaming Gnome for having us at Sabre.
She wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy New Year.
The
chapter meeting adjourned at
1:30 p.m.
Regards,
Kim
McGee
Historian-North
Texas
IAPP Chapter
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