Carol MacLeod, CPA, CIA, CISA, CGAP, SFO, joined Government Finance Officers Association(GFOA) as a Senior Project Manager with GFOA’s Research and Consulting Center. She leads the outreach efforts related to GFOA’s Best Practices in School Budgeting, Smarter School Spending, and the Alliance for Excellence in School Budgeting. Before joining GFOA, she worked in governmental accounting and auditing for over 30 years, including most recently, 11 years as the CFO at Lake County Schools, Florida where her district participated in the Spending Money Smartly project beginning in 2013 that provided the foundational work for GFOA’s Best Practices in School Budgeting.