11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Registration and Exhibit Viewing

1 - 5 p.m.
Hospitality Suite - sponsored by First Tennessee

1:30 - 6 p.m.
Golf Tournament at Vanderbilt Legends Club co-sponsored by The PICA Group and CAMICO

12:30 - 2:20 p.m.
CPE Session - Excel-Based Dashboards
Speaker: Thomas G. Stephens Jr., CPA, CITP, K2 Enterprises, Hammond, La.
Description: It?s time to look beyond outdated processes and into the advantages leading-edge tools such as digital dashboards and benchmarking provide when they are used as key components of financial and operational reporting processes. Crucial building-blocks such as obtaining critical data through ODBC connections; practical sources of benchmarking data; what technology tools are available to assist when implementing dashboards and benchmarks; and how to make dashboard and benchmark data widely available in your organization are all covered in this fast-paced overview. Tools such as Excel 2007, Crystal Excelsius, ProSystem fx ProfitDriver and ProfitCents are demonstrated. Don?t miss this opportunity to learn how to breakthrough your organization?s current reporting limitations with digital dashboards and benchmarking.

2:20 - 2:40 p.m.
Networking Break and Exhibit Viewing

2:40 - 4:30 p.m.
CPE Session - Excel: Best Features for Accountants
Speaker: Thomas G. Stephens Jr., CPA, CITP, K2 Enterprises, Hammond, La.
Description: What are the features in Excel that you should be using to enhance your productivity? Solver? Goal Seeking? Data Tables? Defined Names? Text-To-Columns Wizard? Conditional Formatting? Or any of countless other features and functions contained - and sometimes hidden - in Microsoft Excel? Learn the tools and techniques in Microsoft?s standard-setting Excel spreadsheet application that can help you solve everyday problems and boost your efficiency and effectiveness to unimaginable levels. Throughout this highly informative and entertaining session, you will learn about the best features for accountants in both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007; more importantly, you will learn from practical examples how you can put these tools to work for immediate results.

7 - 9:30 p.m.
Opening Reception - Carnton Plantation

9 - 11 p.m.
Hospitality Suite - sponsored by First Tennessee

7 - 9 a.m.
Member/Spouse/Guest Continental Breakfast

7 a.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Registration and Exhibit Viewing

8 - 9:40 a.m.
CPE Session - 2008 Federal Tax Update
Speaker: Walter H. Nunnallee, Professor of Tax Law, North Carolina Central University, Raleigh, N.C.
Description: Professor Nunnallee will discuss recent legislation, cases, rulings and regulations having the greatest impact on the general practitioner.

9:40 - 10 a.m.
Networking Break and Exhibit Viewing

10 - 11:40 a.m.
CPE Session - It is Never Wrong to Do the Right Thing
Speaker: Douglas E. Warren, CPA, CFE, FCPA, Warren & Tallent, CPAs, PLLC, Sweetwater, Tenn.
Description: Ethical Failures are rooted in leadership failures, the lack of a strong culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated and unresponsiveness to unacceptable behavior. Decision making is the critical key to survival in the future. We must increase our understanding of decision making in individual ethical decisions. Ethics underlies much of what happens in our business and personal lives. We will address specific issues that accountants should know to practice legally in Tennessee. We will examine ?real life? dilemmas often faced in the practice of accountancy. Why do good people do ethically questionable things? What are the specific requirements to be licensed and maintain an accounting practice in Tennessee?

11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Joint Luncheon
Luncheon Speaker: "The Life Barometer," Charlie Neese, Meteorologist, The Balance Zone, Pegram, Tenn.
Description: Whether it?s in your life or business, there?s nothing like the power found in balance to take you from overwhelmed to outstanding. Meteorologist Charlie Neese?s Life Barometer program is a blend of a relevant topic and practical solutions wrapped in a unique presentation that will leave you inspired, motivated and certainly entertained. The Life Barometer is based on principles of balance from nature and the weather that directly affect our lives too. Attendees will learn how to reduce stress, increase productivity through focus and improve the quality of your home and work life. As Charlie says, there?s nothing like living with the peace of mind that results from living a balanced, successful life!

1:10 - 2:50 p.m.
CPE Session - Understanding Risk Assessment and Internal Control - So Who's Responsibility Is It?
Speaker: Charles E. Landes, Vice President, Professional Standards Group, AICPA, Washington, DC
Description: Over the last several years, there has been a great deal of buzz (and confusion) about internal control over financial reporting, the role that internal control plays in helping an auditor assess audit risk, not to mention concerns over communications of internal control weaknesses. In this session, Chuck will talk about internal control from the preparer?s perspective and what is necessary to design and implement an effective system of internal control over financial reporting. Chuck will also discuss how the strength or weakness of those controls affect an auditor?s risk assessment and what an auditor can and can not do to help clients in this regard.

2:50 - 3:10 p.m.
Networking Break and Exhibit Viewing

3:10 - 4:50 p.m.
CPE Session - Story of the HealthSouth Corporate Fraud Investigation
Speaker: Gerald Kelly, HORNE LLP, Birmingham, Ala.
Description: This will be a case study of the fraud perpetrated against the stockholders of the company. It will demonstrate how the top management of the company over the course of many years inflated the financial results of the company and reported this on their financial statements that were presented on the 10 Q?s and 10 K?s.

3:10 - 4:50 p.m.
Council Meeting

6 - 6:30 p.m.
Cocktail Reception

6:30 - 11 p.m.
Annual Banquet/Dance

9 - 11:30 p.m.
Hospitality Suite - sponsored by First Tennessee

7:30 - 9 a.m.
Board of Directors Meeting (including Chapter Presidents and Presidents-Elect)

7:30 - 9 a.m.
Member/Spouse/Guest Continental Breakfast

7:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Registration and Exhibit Viewing

9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
CPE Session - Future Think: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change
Speaker: Edie Weiner, Weiner Edrich Brown Inc., New York, N.Y.
Description: Edie Weiner reveals breakthrough thinking techniques that can liberate your mind from its old assumptions and sensitize it to the earliest signals of change. You?ll discover how to overcome both personal and institutional biases and how to recognize when trends aren?t linear. She will show why the law of entropy explains why benchmarking often fails, how to understand the profound implications of demography and much more. Above all, she will help you act on what you learn and overcome the human tendency to reject or deny the signs of change.

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Annual Awards Luncheon

1:30 - 3 p.m.
Committee Meetings