Please be reminded that the deadline to apply to graduate for Summer 2008 is next Friday, June 27, 2008. 

Good afternoon!

The Department of Accountancy & Taxation is committed to offering courses that will give YOU an advantage over your peers from other schools as you enter the workforce.

Our Accountancy & Taxation Advisory Board, which is made up of top officers from the Big-4 firms, top mid-market firms and industry, has identified two areas that they are looking for expertise in in the very near future – Internal Audit/ERM/Internal Controls and International Standards, AND has assisted us in organizing and offering three new courses this Fall that will give you this requisite knowledge:

ACCT4397 (34763) – Enterprise Risk Management (New -- Undergraduate Only),

ACCT7397 (34764) – Advanced Internal Audit (New -- Graduate Only), and

ACCT7397 (34766) – International Statement Reporting (New -- Graduate Only).

These courses, together with our other current offerings in these areas of interest, namely:

ACCT4375 (10602) – Internal Audit Entity Environment (Undergraduate Only) and

ACCT7397 (33800) – Current Issues in Accounting (Graduate Only),

will increase your value to our Colloquium Partners.

The two new classes that focus on the application of ERM [the ACCT4397 (34763) Enterprise Risk Management class and the ACCT7397 (34764) Advanced Internal Audit class] are being taught by experts in their field and are designed to give you a “leg up” in your careers by teaching you skills that are in demand (e.g., SOX 404 work, etc.) now and will be in demand over the next few years by the Big-4 CPA firms and our other Colloquium partners. We urge you to consider taking these two courses as upper level electives.

The third new course [ACCT7397 (34766) – International Statement Reporting] is designed to prepare you for the upcoming change from US GAAP to International GAAP.

These three courses, which are available to you right now, are filling up, so I encourage you to please sign up ASAP if you want to take advantage of this great opportunity to increase your skill-set/knowledge.

                                         Michael