dc_girl, "If ANA is a registered nonprofit organization in the US, it is mandatory that they disclose their annual budget and expenditure." I have been an accountant for last 17 years, a practicing accountant for last 10 years (almost 7 years in the US), have at least 18 non-profit clients but never heard of this rule (please enlighten me). As far as I know if you have public contributions in excess of $2 million (in CA) you have to have an audit committee and annual audit barring few exceptions (I have heard New York is thinking of a threshold of $150k). If ANA was a governmental unit then what you said is true. Just because there were some shortcomings?? during Texas convention doesn't make ANA a body full of cheats. Personally, I enjoyed the atmosphere, enjoyed seeing so many Nepalese at one place and enjoyed meeting friends (some of them after 20 years) and if the momos were sold for 5 bucks I would have enjoyed even more (no complaints though, after all we elected to live in capitalistic society where price is determined by supply and demand). As far as the transparency goes, as a member of the society even I would like to see ANA more transparent about their elections, budgeting and expenditures. But just because they didn?t come up to one?s expectation doesn?t make them crooks. My kudos to ANA executives and the Texas society for making this happen in 2005 and best wishes to New York for 2006.