Committees
Audit Committee
Description
The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling its responsibility to oversee the staff management’s conduct of CAA’s financial-reporting process and the audit efforts of CAA’s independent accountants and internal auditors, if any, including the financial information provided by CAA to any governmental or regulatory body, CAA’s members or other users thereof, CAA’s systems of internal accounting and financial controls, and the annual independent audit of CAA’s financial statements. In discharging its oversight role, the committee is empowered to investigate any matter brought to its attention with full access to all books, records, facilities, and personnel of CAA, and has the power to retain outside counsel, auditors, or other experts for this purpose. It is the objective of the committee to maintain free and open means of communications with the board, the independent accountants, internal auditors, if any, and CAA’s financial and senior management. The committee shall review the adequacy of its charter on an annual basis.
Committee Members
John Hyland Jr., Media Advisory Partners LLC, Treasurer and Chair
Anne Collins Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, President
Patricia McDonnell, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Vice President for External Affairs
DeWitt Godfrey, Colgate University, Vice President for Committees
Jacqueline Francis, California College of the Arts, Vice President for Annual Conference
Randall C. Griffin, Southern Methodist University, Vice President for Publications
Maria Ann Conelli, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Secretary
Linda Downs, CAA Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (ex officio)
Kristine Wright, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Michael Fahlund, CAA Deputy Director (ex officio)
Teresa López, CAA Chief Financial Officer (ex officio)
Contact
Please direct all queries regarding the Audit Committee to Vanessa Jalet, CAA executive liaison.
