It was high time that such a scandal broke that an ANA convention sustained a financial hole to the tunes of ~ minus $80k. It directly implicates all the formal ANA orgazing officers and members. If those individuals remotely care about their reputation, then it is in their best interest to step up to the plate and explain the confusion/gap to the ANA devotees.

Like BC said, the behavior of the organizers are mirroring that of the national leaders in the old country [back home]. When such irresponsibility and/or perhaps even corruption seems plausible, are these peeps even acculturated enough to run an American-chartered organization that is perhaps even older than most of the ANA attendees?

Some candidates run for office with a mandate to simply provide the best ways to advance the organization in the changing times by doing this or doing that. Simply put what the diaspora needs is practical solutions to problems where sustainability of programs/services is of paramount importance, brain-storming of cost-benefit analysis to solutions, and not making promises that might be hard to deliver consistently.

It is not the lack of ideas that is holding back ANA or any organizations of smaller scale, it is the lack of integrity, discipline, fairness, frugality, value, and other traits that go along. After all, just because one is from a third-world country or lacks a degree paper does not mean one is natively stupid.

As an ANA attendee in the past or as just another Nepali Joe, an off-the-wall recommendation from my side is
when holding an election for ANA or any other organization in the US, we should only let individuals to run for office of such delicate nature by requiring them to have an average FICO score of at least 750. [ I am dead serious on this one but I can't help it ]. At the risk of over-simplifying, people with high FICO scores are said to be more responsible and fair-minded.

Another thing that just crept up my mind is, I hear a current member being a CIO in a Fortune 500 company, another one a programming whiz who would give Zukerberg a run for his money, next one a financial titan who would one-day topple John Paulson's records. That's all bull-crap. The kind of officers we need in such organizations are ones who can articulate their ideas, who are fairly competent in written/verbal English/Nepali, and above all who can hold the post to a higher esteem through integrity. It does not matter whether he/she is a Hamburger-University-diploma-holder, gas-station owner or a substitute teacher.

Attention ANA Devotee!
now that the ANA convention and the holy rituals there-in have made it to the endangered species list, aren't you going to walk like Egyptians in a rally and threaten to boycott the next ANA rendezvous until they post the P&L statement on a web 2.0 platform?

Attention ANA Organizing officers!
Feel free to contact me regarding Accounting consulting services. I have good news for you, I just got contact information of a former Arthur Anderson officer.