This message presented on behalf of Michael Newman and Ernst & Young.

Internal auditing is another avenue that students can take besides the traditional accounting tracks such as audit and tax. Everyone knows the cliché that once you get Big 4 experience you can go anywhere you want in your career. Did you know that internal auditing offers you the same opportunities? Yet so many people do not know that it exists!

• Did you know there is a huge market for internal auditing in Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Boston, and many other places around the country and around the world?
• Do you have to be CPA ready to be an internal auditor? Although it is encouraged, it is not a requirement in most companies.
• While many CPA firms require you to be CPA ready before they will even consider you for employment, internal auditing gives you another route to gain great experience while pursuing your future goals.
• Once a person has internal audit experience, everyone wants to hire them!
• There are a lot of internal audit departments out there that do not require extensive amounts of travel or overtime.
• So what about starting salary? Did you know that a person can easily make approximately $50K without having any kind of internal audit experience? Some places pay even higher than that!
• Did you know that by being an internal auditor you actually get to meet a lot of people in the company? Imagine having the CEO or the Chairman of the Audit Committee come and talk to you about issues in the company. Well as an internal auditor, that it sometimes a reality!
• Internal auditors get to work with managers and employees throughout the organization. Internal auditors get to learn about processes that affect a company. Imagine learning about SOX to service center operations to executive expenses to records retention to fleet and many more areas within 2 years.

Internal auditing presents many opportunities for people to learn about a company and to pursue their career goals. So are you interested in learning more about internal auditing as a career? If so, then join the Internal Audit Student Association (IASA) and pursue the internal audit program at Bauer College of Business and see for yourself what a great choice you made!

Thanks,

Lisa M. Berry, CFE

Internal Auditor

University of Houston

5000 Gulf Fwy Bldg. 3 Rm. 281-H

Houston, Texas 77024-0930

(713) 743-8054 ∙ Fax:  (713) 743-8015

E-Mail: lberry2@central.uh.edu

 Apply today here

A message from Mindy Le, a student in the Accounting Program: 

AIDS has created millions of orphans worldwide and targets the most

defenseless persons in our society - our children. By working locally,

we will make a global impact to the well being of our children.

Please show your support by attending the joint benefit for Alicia Key's

Keep A Child Alive <http://www.keepachildalive.org/>  and the City of

Houston's State of Emergency Task Force (SOETF)

<http://www.itsrealhouston.org/>  on December 20, 2008 at 7PM. Purchase

your tickets online at  www.mydreamscometrue08.com

<http://www.mydreamscometrue08.com/> .

The Keep a Child Alive program seeks to provide life-saving

anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and

their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world by

directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS. Working

together with the City of Houston's SOETF, we will raise the community's

consciousness through HIV/AIDS education and prevention.

Join us at Dreams Come True 2008 <http://www.mydreamscometrue08.com/>

for a night of fashion and music. Featuring designs by Project Runway

winner - Chole Dao and performers including Coline Cruezot, Karina

Nistal, Lil J Xavier, Mindy Le, Mobonix, Versecity, and more. Hosted by

BET's Blame the Comic.

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Warmest Regards,

Mindy Le

Keep A Child Alive Southwest

Executive Director and President at The University of Houston

Campus Activities Box Number 43

Houston,Texas 77204-331

email: mindyle87@gmail.com

www.kcacollege.com <http://www.kcacollege.com/>

Tel: 832-867-8842

www.keepachildalive.org <http://www.keepachildalive.org/>

PwC is pleased to announce our next quarterly webcast designed to keep you informed about emerging accounting, regulatory, and market developments impacting accounting and financial reporting. These quarterly webcasts feature insights from a broad range of PwC specialists, who will update you on the current state of technical topics and emerging issues.

Please join us on Wednesday, December 17th at 3:00 p.m. ET for a 90-minute webcast on hot topics and recent activities of various regulatory bodies including the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities & Exchange Commission.  By learning more about current issues, you can assess the implications for accounting and financial reporting today and plan for the impact tomorrow.

This webcast will be moderated by Vin Colman, PwC's Assurance Managing Partner and National Professional Services Group Leader.

Overview:
On this webcast, we'll discuss various hot topics including:

• The most recent issues impacting the marketplace today;  
• Current issues in fair value accounting related to both financial and non-financial assets and liabilities;  
• The SEC's proposed roadmap on the potential use of IFRS in the US.

CPE Credit: This webcast will qualify for 1.5 CPE credits.  

Please note that CPE credit can only be given to individuals who remain logged into the LIVE webcast and respond to the polling questions provided during the webcast. If you are viewing this webcast in a group, everyone in the group can receive CPE Credit.  Also, those who dial in via telephone are NOT eligible for CPE credit. Please note that this is a NASBA (not PwC) requirement.

Register today. To register for this event, please copy the following web address into your browser:

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