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ALLEN MULLINS, CPA Financial Consultant Carter ~ Burgess, Inc. Education M.B.A., Accounting, 1980, Universily of Texas at Arlington B.A., Liberal Arts, 1974, Union University Professional Registration Cedified Public Accountant, Texas Professional Experience Mr. Muffins has 26 years of experience in providing management and financial services to state and local governments, special distrids, and utilities. He has managed a wide range of consulting assignments covering cost-of-service pricing studies, organizational analysis, accounting and financial models, and information technology projeds. His projeds include business and IS strategies, effediveness and efficiency studies, and outsourcing studies. Mr. Mullins was a Senior Manager ia the National Utilities Consulting Practice at KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. Mr. MuJlins was Assistant Director of Utilities for the City of Arlington, Texas. His responsibilities included budget, financial planning, utilily billing, customer services, meter reading, meter services, property management, and operations research. He has also served as Director of Finance for the Cily of Hurst, Texas, where he was responsible for the accounting, budgeting, utility billing, data processing, purchasing and personnel divisions. Mr. Mullins is a member of the American Water Works Association, where he has participated on the Information System and Services Commitlee, and active in the Government Finance Officers Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Mullins has co-authored articles on financial and work-order management, including: "The Changing Role of Financial Management in Utilities" in Proceedings of WEFTEC '95, "System Development Charges: Implementation, Administration and Accounting" in the A.W.W.A. Proceedings, 1992, and "Computerized Work Management: Worth Investigating" for Public Works Journal. Financial Management project experience includes: · GASB 34 Implementation, Temple, TX; Senior Consultant. Developed implementation strategy to obtain compliance with the new accounting standards for the Cily or Temple. The project included analysis of the appropriate capital accounting methods for the City's infrostrudure categories. · GASB 34 Issues, various locations, Project Manager. Developed an analysis of the new standards and made presentations to professional organizations to assist various entities in the development of an implementation strategy to comply with the new accounting standards. The presentations were made the Texas Public Works Association, Texas Municipal Utilities Association, Texas Municipal League, Special Distrids of South California, and projed included analysis of the appropriate capital accounting methods for the Cily's inErastructure categories.