**[SEMINAR]{.underline}**

**Financial Management of Utilities; visit LIGO Hanford Observatory,
tour WSU's new Bioproducts, Sciences & Engineering Laboratory (BSEL),
Lunch at WSU-TC**

**IMA: Helping Finance/Accounting Professionals provide Value**

**and be Critical Members of their Management Teams**

**SPONSORED BY**

**Washington Tri-Cities Chapter of the Institute of Management
Accountants (IMA)**

***[3 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit
hours]{.underline}***

**Saturday, *[November 3, 2007]{.underline}* - US DOE William R Wiley
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), 3335 Q Avenue,
Richland, WA (phone 509-521-1905)**

**[Directions from Pasco]{.underline}:  driving on highway 182 through
North Pasco into Richland, take the ByPass highway toward Highway 240
and the Hanford Site.  Continue straight on it as it merges into Stevens
Drive.  Take a right at the light onto Battelle Blvd.  Turn left on Q
Avenue (3^rd^/last left turn before traffic light on George Washington
Way).  Take the 3rd or 4th left into the EMSL parking lot (just South of
the EMSL building). **

**An alternative route if you travel [through Richland on George
Washington Way]{.underline}, travel North until you reach the last
traffic light which is on Battelle Blvd.  Turn left, then take the 1st
right onto Q Avenue.  Then the 3rd or 4th left into the EMSL parking
lot.**

**[Park and enter]{.underline} on the South-East side of the EMSL
building (just off Q Avenue).**

**[Wear]{.underline} walking shoes and clothing for short walks
outside.**

**[Hotel]{.underline}: The Guest House at PNNL is a couple hundred yard
walk to EMSL. PNC board members should make their reservations ASAP
through Peter Smith, as the 1st night stay is complimentary by the WA
Tri-Cities IMA chapter. All others should reserve by calling The Guest
House at PNNL at (509) 372-6736 or on-line at
<http://www.pnl.gov/guesthouse/>**.

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  **9:15 am**   **Registration, continental breakfast, & network/socialize
                with the Pacific Northwest Council (PNC) of IMA -- EMSL
                conference room 1077.**

  **9:45 am**   **Overview of PNNL & EMSL by Peter Smith CMA/CFM,
                Directorate Business Manager of the Pacific Northwest
                National Laboratory's (PNNL's) EMSL Business Office:
                <http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/>.**

  **10 am**     **Financial Management of Utilities by Chad Bartram
                CMA/CPA, Chief Financial Officer of the Benton Public
                Utility District.**

  **11 am**     **Laser Interfermeter Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
                -- 9 mile drive from North Richland into the Hanford Site
                to visit LIGO for overview by Dale Ingram, LIGO Education &
                Outreach Coordinator:
                <http://www.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/traveler.html>. LIGO is
                operated by the California Institute of Technology
                (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                (MIT) for the National Science Foundation (NSF).**

  **12/noon**   **Partial tour of and Lunch at Washington State
                University-Tri-Cities (WSU-TC) -- 11 mile drive from LIGO
                to WSU-CIC then walk to catered lunch in WSU-TC cafe. **

  **12:45 pm**  **BSEL tour by Jerry Massey, Facility Operations Manager of
                WSU-TC:
                <http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/chancellor/bseljob.html>.**

  **1:15 pm**   **Done or travel back to EMSL for IMA PNC board meeting.**

  **1:30 pm**   **IMA PNC board meeting.**
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**Registration: contact Peter Smith (509) 376-4673 or
<peter.smith@pnl.gov>.**

**Register by 10-26-07, but PNC ASAP. IMA Tri-Cities and PNC Members --
free; Non-Members: \$20**