Army Audit Readiness Unveiling the Secrets of Internal Controls

Ms. Kimber's Background

Tom Rhoads: Ms. Kimber, can you tell us about your background and what brought you to your current position as the Audit Readiness director at ASA(ALT)? Or in other words, can you just share with us your story?

Eulica Kimber: Okay. So, I'll start with my education. So, I attended Virginia State University a long, long time ago. I hold a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Virginia State. And I also have an MBA from the College of William & Mary School of Business. But as far as my career is I started while I was in college in 1991 as a summer hire at what is now Defense Commissary Agency. So, I was a GS-4 voucher examiner. So, for old-school people will know what a voucher is, but a voucher is really an invoice. So, I did accounts payable for the commissary system. So, the commissaries buy inventory to be resold in their stores, the grocery stores. And so, I was an accounts payable processing person there. And that was the beginning of my federal career. Worked there for a couple of years. I ended up in a little internal audit division that reviewed exception reports and that bills are being paid on time, that kind of thing.

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