SSA, EPA Rewarded with A Green Light on Scorecard

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Dale W. Sopper, CGFM, hesitates to describe himself as an old-fashioned manager, but those qualities helped the Social Security Administration (SSA) become a better-managed agency that is more accountable to the people it serves.

Sopper, a member of AGA's Baltimore Chapter, has led the agency through a major transformation in its financial management processes that resulted in two important milestones. First, last summer, the agency received a green score on the financial management portion of the President's Management Agenda. second, SSA metthe accelerated reporting deadline for annual reports. The audit of the year-end report was completed 45 days after the end of the 2002 …