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Professional Experience, Education & Training, continued Kenneth Turner,CPA Engagement Senior Email: Kenneth.Turner @elliottdavis.com Kenneth will perform the audit and have direct oversight of staff accountants. During his four years in public accounting,Kenneth has focused on auditing government and not-for-profit clients with single audit requirements.Kenneth is the senior for the audits of the cities of Concord,Salisbury and Rock Hill.Kenneth will be on site 100 percent of the audit fieldwork. It is our policy to have a senior level employee or higher on site any time fieldwork is conducted. Continuing Professional Education As specialists in providing audit services to state and local governments,we monitor the continuing education of our professional staff to ensure they are in compliance with continuing education requirements. All professional staff assigned to the audits of the County will be in compliance with Yellow Book CPE requirements during the term of our contract. Our Government Practice conducts an annual two-day CPE session on government and not-for-profit accounting and auditing concepts, and current issues. The session is taught by a national speaker and is attended by both Elliott Davis Decosimo government practice team members and our clients. In addition, shareholders and managers in our Government Practice routinely attend the annual AICPA Governmental and Not-for-Profit Conference to ensure that we are up to date on current issues and new standards. Our shareholders and managers are regularly requested to speak on governmental reporting and auditing standards and other technical issues as requested by State GFOA chapters including South Carolina,Tennessee, Virginia and Ohio. We also regularly sponsor and attend NCGFOA conferences. In addition several of our government team members are scheduled to present on various topics at the 2017 Governmental Accounting Update to be held by the NC Office of the State Controller on June 14, 2017 at NCSU McKimmon Center in Raleigh. Annually, we host a free seminar for North Carolina local governments at the Raleigh Convention Center. Several of the proposed audit team are presenters at this seminar. In addition to a GASB update and a presentation on the New Uniform Guidance;topics presented during our most recent seminar included fraud, IT security,and IRS compliance requirements for local governments.Attendees earned up to eight hours of CPE credit. ellio- t dais decosimo 9 Attachment number 1 \n F-4 Page 73