Bob Scott
Chief Financial Officer/Assistant City ManagerBob Scott is Chief Financial Officer/Assistant City Manager for the City of Carrollton, where he has responsibility for all aspects of the Citys financial operations. He has a Masters degree in Accounting and a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Texas Tech University. Mr. Scott began his career in public accounting, ultimately serving as an audit manager with responsibility for a large number of governmental clients. Mr. Scott has extensive experience in accounting and financial reporting issues having served on various GASB review committees and taskforces. He has been a reviewer for the last three editions of GFOAs Governmental Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting (known as the Blue Book) and various other GFOA publications.. He is a past chair for GFOAs Committee for Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting (CAAFR) and he currently serves on the GFOAs Executive Board. While in public accounting, he served as a Practice Fellow for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and later as representative to the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Committee. In 2008 the AICPA named him the outstanding CPA in local government.