PRESIDENT'S CORNER - January 2012
Happy New Year to all of you. I think your new year’s resolutions must have been "attend more IIA meetings," as we had our largest attendance in January for as long as I can remember: 75 people. The session was very informative and discussed the upcoming changes, primarily in revenue recognition and leases, in addition to other accounting and auditing changes on the horizon. As always, the presentation is available on-line at the IIA Pittsburgh Chapter website under the Resource tab.
Hopefully all of you have read last month’s newsletter and have answered the JA achievement survey. As mentioned, the Pittsburgh Chapter will work towards greater participation and support of JA to align with the National IIA’s strategic plan. Teaching economics to children can actually be a fun experience and I’m hoping we have enough interest so we can provide this service for JA. Also, it’s never too early to start planning a bowling team for the annual JA bowl-a-thon. We currently do not have a date, but this is typically in early June.
Next month will be a 4 hour CPE and should be extremely interesting, as the topic is fraud – Detection of Deception. We also have additional interesting topics listed on the website for the remainder of our IIA fiscal year. Please don’t forget the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the National IIA as part of our April meeting.
As Jayne inquired last year, I would also like to inquire, if any one of you is a speaker at any event in which you are not paid and do discuss the topic of internal auditing, please let me know. We will receive points for our chapter for advocating the profession. Please provide me with your name and the topic of the speech.
Please continue to keep the IIA in mind for all your CPE requirements. If there is a topic you are interested in for yourself or your company and we are not covering it, please feel free to contact me or the programming committee members.
Don’t forget that the IIA also offers free webinars to members. You can find these on the National IIA website.
Nicole Saldamarco
nsaldamarco@sdcpa.com
Chapter President
