What hasn't changed in the Military financial management community in the last 10 years? Who is giving guarantees that our environment won't change even more in the next 3, 5, 7, or 10 years, or perhaps even more than once? More importantly, how have we survived past changes? What will it take to survive future changes?
The seemingly ageless stability of the military financial management community has been significantly shaken during the last decade; today, many community members approach the future with apprehension. Flags signaling change still fly. At the most basic, do we call our community the "DoD Comptroller" (as in American Society of Military Comptrollers), "DoD Financial Management," or "DoD Financial Management and Comptroller" community? Have we even settled on what that change implies?
Even though the Defense Finance and Accounting Service has been in existence for over 10 years, many members of our financial management community have yet to totally accept this change. Financial management work in what was viewed by most to be an organized, stable environment---with predictable annually cyclical workload fluctuations--has been turned topsyturvy. World events and ever-increasing pressures on DoD budgets have created more and more what-if drills, short-turnaround "numbers please submissions," and a frenzied drive for more and more detailed financial and …
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