1. What would it mean to you or your command to have auditable financial statements?
Proves sound practices
Shows professionalism of FM community
Answers Congress, but not much else
More money from Congress

2. What is/will be the biggest obstacle to achieving auditable financial statements?
Cooperation among stakeholders (FM, acquisition, HR, etc.)
Systems issues (e.g. interfaces, legacy systems, etc.)
Lack of standard business practices
Lack of people with right skills

3. What do you think is our ability to achieve the efficiencies as budgeted?
Will attain because funding is gone
Can achieve most, but not on the timelines budgeted
Achieve ONLY with a leadership focus and reductions in certain functions
Likely not attainable – too much, too fast with too little direction

4. What is the biggest professional challenge YOU will face in the next two years?
Decide whether to retire and when
Determining and gaining the skills I need to progress
Getting a promotion (in an era of civilian reductions)
Getting all of my assigned work done

5. What is the biggest financial challenge your ORGANIZATION will face in the next two years?
Loss of FM talent due to retirements
Lack of quantity or quality of people to do the job
Implementing budget reductions (assuming workload demands don’t change)
Fending off budget reductions