Eric S. Berman, MSA, CPA, CGMA, currently serves on the Association of Government Accountants (AGA)’s Finance and Budget Committee and is the national Treasurer – Elect for the AGA. He recently represented the AGA as the Vice Chairman of the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Council to the GASB. He also chaired the AGA’s Audit Committee and previously, the AGA’s Financial Management Standards Board. He also was a previous chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA’s) Governmental Performance and Accountability Committee and is a former member of the AICPA’s State and Local Government Expert Panel. Eric is currently a member of the GASB’s task force reexamining the state and local governmental financial reporting model and has served on previous GASB task forces and working groups assisting in the development and implementation of standards.

Eric is also a past member of the California Society of CPAs’ Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee and is past chair of the same committee for the Massachusetts Society of CPAs. He was also the founder and treasurer of a not-for-profit performing arts organization in Pennsylvania. Eric is frequently called upon to consult and train state and local governments throughout the country on governmental accounting and auditing.