2019 GTE

Sam McCall, PhD, CPA, CGMA, CGFM, CIA, CGAP, CIG
Chief Audit Officer
Florida State University


Sam has been Chief Audit Officer at Florida State University for almost six years. He was previously City Auditor for the City of Tallahassee for thirteen years and prior to that, he was Florida Deputy Auditor General for thirteen years of that thirty-year career. In December 2016, Sam completed a five-year term as a member of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board that establishes Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for the federal government. Sam served over ten years on the Comptroller General of the United States Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards. He served on the GASB Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council. He was an Association of Government Accountants National President. He served on The IIA’s International Internal Auditing Standards Board and IIA Task Force that defined “internal auditing.” In 2014, The IIA inducted Sam into their American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners, the American Center for Government Auditing recognized Sam as one of the Top 15 Most Influential Audit Professionals, and AGA recognized him as the National Educator of the Year. In 2016 Sam was recognized by the AICPA with the AICPA Outstanding CPA in Government Career Contribution Award.

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