The IPSAS PARTNER solution is brought to you by Issues Central, Inc., developers of specialized content and technology solutions to facilitate IPSAS and IPSAS transition, financial reporting and financial compliance.
Issues Central, Inc. – Developers of IFRS PARTNER and IPSAS PARTNER
Founded in 2002, Issues Central, Inc. (ICI), is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in New York, Calgary, Vancouver and Lagos, Nigeria. Issues Central is an elite team with broad industry and multi-national experience in the areas of technology entrepreneurship, financial systems and accounting, internal audit expertise, software development, marketing and sales, all underpinned by a dedication to customer service.
Issues Central’s initial products focused around financial compliance in support of improved internal controls over financial reporting and strengthened disclosure controls as mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the United States. In 2008, Issues Central introduced the world’s first local GAAP-to-IFRS transition management with IFRS reporting product – IFRS PARTNER. IFRS PARTNER is the global standard for undertaking a smooth and cost effective IFRS transition supported by ongoing IFRS financial reporting.
Now in 2011, the team at Issues Central brings its proven methodologies and software tools to IPSAS conversion. Taking a unique blend of software tools + capacity building approach to IPSAS transition and achieving project success with IPSAS PARTNER.
Issues Central includes senior team members that have experience on large complex IPSAS transition projects with successes in transition projects such as North American Treaty Organisation (NATO) and others government organisations. Additionally the team members have successes in hundreds of private sector projects beginning in 2005. Using expertise and technology together achieving efficiency and reducing the risk, time and cost of these complex projects.
Issues Central, Inc. – ManagementThe ICI team is led by:
Cathy Connally - President
Cathy Connally, CIA, and President of Issues Central, Inc. Cathy started her career in the finance departments of Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum. She has over twenty-five years experience in financial transition and compliance management, internal audit and executive management. Cathy is a serial entrepreneur having founded successful technology and professional services firms in both the United States and Canada. She has worked with over eight hundred organizations around the world on financial compliance and transition projects. She is an authority on IPSAS transition activities as well as SOX 404 and NI 52-109 financial compliance. Cathy is a co-author and primary architect of the industry leading IPSAS transition and reporting solution, IPSAS PARTNER. She is also the lead content developer of the CFO PARTNER line of financial compliance products for SOX 404 and NI 52-109 compliance. Cathy is a summa cum laude B.Sc graduate in finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Charley Best – Vice President
Charley Best, Vice President of Issues Central, Inc. Charley started his career in marketing and sales in the technology sector with Gennum Corporation. He has over twenty-five years of marketing and sales, consulting and executive management experience. He has founded consulting and software development/distribution businesses and is the developer/author of a line of software-based implementation and guidance tools to ease the implementation of manufacturing and distribution systems. At Issues Central, Inc. he leads the company’s marketing and sales activities and strategic relationships. He has worked extensively with target markets in the United States, Canada and Africa to research and deploy winning financial compliance, financial transition/reporting and governance solutions. Charley has an M.B.A. from York University in Toronto and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
To learn more about Issues Central, Inc. (ICI) please visit the ICI corporate website: www.issuescentral.com