Audit
Accounting
Finance
Deborah Milks, CPA is a former consulting partner with Deloitte, Guam and Micronesia. She currently provides accounting and consulting services to the U.S. insular areas through the Graduate School USA.
Ms. Milks has over 40 years of experience with governmental financial management. With a background in both accounting and information systems, Ms. Milks has been able to provide government finance offices effective and practical solutions in systems management, process re-engineering, accounting staff training, and financial statement preparation and auditing.
During her years of association initially with Arthur Andersen, then later Deloitte, the Graduate School USA, and several software companies, Ms. Milks has been able to work with private clients in hospitality, retailing, manufacturing, and shipping. Her government clients have included small cities, airport authorities and utilities, and the U.S. affiliated insular governments. Her experience with a wide range of clients and financial environments allows Ms. Milks to bring best practices and workable solutions to the finance offices. Her consistent goals are to leave clients with lasting improvements, to transfer knowledge to client staff, and to reduce client dependence upon outside assistance.
With the Graduate School Ms. Milks helped form the Island Government Finance Officers Association. She continues to work with that association to establish performance measures for island finance offices and improve the audit process and responsiveness to audit qualifications and findings.