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Candidate Biography (submitted by campaign):
Beth Wood is a CPA (20 years) and most of that experience has been spent in governmental audit and accounting. She is a long-time public servant . Beth served in the State Auditor’s Office for more than a decade and previously served in the State Treasurer’s Office. She would be the first woman elected to the position of State Auditor in North Carolina.
During her tenure in the State Auditor’s Office, Beth was instrumental in bringing the state’s compliance supplements up to federal standards, ensuring that federal grants are being used as intended. She was a leader in redesigning the Auditor’s Office training program to make training more relevant to state auditors’ work. And she helped develop employee evaluations that better reflected the job performance of Auditor’s Office employees.
Beth grew up on her family’s farm near Cove City in eastern North Carolina. That’s where she says she learned to value every dime. It’s that sense of fiscal responsibility that has led her to seek the office of State Auditor.
Beth put herself through school and received her accounting degree from East Carolina University in 1984. She became a Certified Public Accountant in 1987.
She teaches a variety of professional audit and accounting courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (NCACPA). She serves on the AICPA Steering Committee for its annual Government and Not for Profit Conference.
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| Candidate Statement:
The demands on North Carolina State Government are growing faster than the resources to meet those demands. More than ever, we need to ensure that every penny of North Carolina taxpayer dollars are not being wasted but are being spent as efficiently and effectively as possible.
As your State Auditor I pledge the following:
I pledge to restore the General Assembly and the citizens of North Carolina’s confidence in the audits issued from the Auditor’s Office.
I pledge to work more closely with the General Assembly to use the audits of the Auditor’s Office to hold State agencies accountable for the management of taxpayer dollars.
I pledge to restore the quality of the training of the auditors within the Auditor’s Office to ensure that we maximize the talent of those performing the audits of taxpayer moneys.
I pledge to be the taxpayers’ full-time financial watchdog and will not engage in outside business activities that would detract me from the duties of State Auditor.
We need more accountability for the spending of taxpayer moneys and I plan to lead the staff in the Auditor’s Office in making that happen!
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