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TAG is an unmatched way to network with peers, grow professionally,find a job or hire an employee, and hone your skills.
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TAG's monthly IT Job Trends Report about the Georgia IT job market and skills in demand.
TAG-Finance will provide
Educational, knowledge-transfer, networking,
and mentoring opportunities
…In the fields of tax, finance and accounting
…To the owners and decision makers
…Of Georgia's technology firms.
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Our sincere thanks to our Gold Sponsors who provide the financial underpinnings to develop and deliver the Finance content portfolio. Please click on the logos to learn more about each organization.
To become a Sponsor, please contact Dave Chambless, Chair of the Finance Society at +1.404.627.4454 dchambless@abraxas.biz
Upcoming Events
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When |
Topic |
Registration |
| 12/09/08 | Ever been Audited? | Click here to register |
| 01/06/2009 | Legislative Update | |
| 01/08/2009 | TAG Health/ TAG Finance Joint Program: The Economy, Healthcare and Technology | Click here to register |
| 01/13/2009 | National and Global Economic Overview: The Impact the new global economy will have on the Georgia technology industry | Click here to register |
| 01/27/2009 | IFRS Series Part I - IFRS Much More than a Technical Accounting Exericse | Click here to register |
| 02/10/2009 | Liquidity - Illiquidity: The changing world of cash management | Click here to register |
| 02/17/2009 | Managerial Values and Practices - Dr Jake Messersmith, The George Washington University | |
| 03/31/2009 | IFRS Series Part II - IFRS for Technology Companies: Closing the GAAP | Click here to register |
| 04/21/2009 | CIO and the IT Function - the ties that bind IT and Finance | Click here to register |
| 05/19/2009 | IFRS Series Part III - 2011 - Merging of IASB and FASB accounting standards | Click here to register |
| 06/09/2009 | Investment Capital: how will the current changes in capital markets impact your funding strategies | Click here to register |
| 06/23/2009 | The TCO Calculator | Click here to register |
| 08/11/2009 | IFRS Series Part IV - Is your business thriving but your accounting software isn't keeping up? | |
| 09/22/2009 | The Economics of Business Process Outsourcing - Part 2 - Is outsourcing right for your business? | |
| 10/10/2009 | Legislative Update | |
| 10/13/2009 | The Economics of Technology Marketing in today's over-communicated-to world | |
| 12/08/2009 | 10 Gotchas: What I did not know about selling/buying my business | |
Past Events
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Topic |
| 11/11/08 |
Defining your High-Tech Organization's Legal Priorities |
| 10/30/08 | TAG Finance – Oktoberfest Celebration |
| 10/28/08 | Income and Estate Tax Planning Concerns for Small Business Owners |
| 9/16/08 | Information Harvesting: Unleashing the Power of Financial Ratios |
| 8/21/08 | "Software as a Service (SaaS): the model, the economics and the logic" Click here for Presentation |
| 7/31/08 | TAG TFS & Accretive Solutions Enterprise-Wide Security Strategies Click here for Presentation |
| 6/3/08 |
FIN 48 : Are you ready to disclose your tax positions to the public? |
| 5/13/08 |
Goldman Sachs: What's Next for the Economy & Technology |
| 4/29/08 |
Keeping it civil: Preventing Criminal Investigations |
| 3/11/08 |
The Latest on Fair Value Measurements and How it Impacts your Business |
| 2/26/08 |
Roadmap to the Right Accounting Role |
| 1/29/08 |
Sales and Use Tax Considerations of Mixed and Bundled Technologies |
Strict data protection and data privacy regulations, intellectual property protection and human resource practices are some of the key priorities today’s high-tech executives must balance in managing their organization’s legal priorities. These were among the key discussion points at a management seminar held November 11, 2008 by the Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) Finance Society. The seminar was titled: “Defining your High-Tech Organization’s Legal Priorities.” The seminar was geared to executives facing the challenge of balancing the many legal priorities they face.
“Whether you’re an early stage company or a mature organization, high tech executives need to understand the changing playing field of legal standards,” noted Don Campbell, President and CEO of Virtual Management Technologies, and Moderator of the Seminar. “The legal standards for data protection and privacy, for example, have evolved rapidly over the past year and executives need to understand how these changes will impact their business.”
Click here to read press release
TAG Finance sponsored a seminar on one of the newest, yet oldest, technologies available to organizations today – Software as a Service (SaaS). Why the oldest? SaaS has similar underpinnings to the 1960’s and 1970’s when application time-sharing was the least expensive way to gain access to administrative applications such as payroll and accounting for many organizations. SaaS delivers as similar model wherein mid-sized organizations can get the power of sophisticated and feature-rich applications delivered via the web. Key panelists such as Jeff Pyden, Managing Director of OmniVue Business Solutions and Alan MacLamroc, Chief Product and Technology Officer at CDC Software discussed the state of the industry in delivering viable SaaS solutions. To review the TAG Finance presentation please click here.
“39 percent of executive decision makers at Fortune 100 companies labeled IT Security a significant concern and Enterprise Risk Management as their number one concern over the coming 12 months,” according to Rodney Deli-Gatti, Accretive Solutions, a national professional services firm with over 1,100 professionals. Building a security model that supports the organizations entire footprint is critical in managing today’s multi-location and international businesses. TAG Finance sponsored a seminar that highlighted many of the issues executives believe today are impacting their success and ability to grow profitably. The seminar presented a security model that is business focused, in which business is driving and IT is supporting. “The key is taking a long term strategic approach that carefully aligns Information Security,” says Mr. Delli-Gatti. “The governance, risk and optimization model must encompass a holistic approach.” For a copy of the TAG Finance presentation, please click here.
| Planning do's and don'ts to position your business to optimize 'take out value' in today's business environment |
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If only I'd known:10 top gotchas from experienced (read: bruised) high tech executives |
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The Economics of Business Process Outsourcing |
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"Streamlined Sale Tax Almost Here! Is it a Curse or a Blessing |
Click here for Whitepaper |
Our Board Members:
Carter Johnson |
LexisNexis |
carter.johnson@choicepoint.com |
Dave Chambless |
Abraxas Business Services |
dchambless@abraxas.biz |
Dick Walleshauser |
Chamberlain Hrdlicka |
richard.walleshauser@chamberlainlaw.com |
Don Campbell |
Virtual Management Technologies |
donc@vmtech.net |
John Carpentier |
Tarpley & Underwood |
jcarpentier@t-u.com |
Katherine Gauntt |
KPMG SAT- Atlanta |
kgauntt@kpmg.com |
Michael Stanford |
Goldman, Sachs & Co. |
michael.stanford@gs.com |
Preston Porterfield |
Tarpley & Underwood |
pporterfield@t-u.com |
Rodney Delli-Gatti |
Accretive Solutions |
rdelligatti@accretivesolutions.com |
Stacy Meyer |
OmniVue |
smeyer@omnivue.net
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Barbara Martin |
Technology Association of Georgia |
barbara@tagonline.org |
