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Hi, I'm Julie Insley, President of the IIA Beach Cities Chapter, and  I welcome you to our website and urge you to come to our monthly meetings. We always have interesting, topical speakers and an opportunity to build relationships with your fellow professionals.

We sponsor regular events for professional education and career advancement. We have monthly lunch meetings (except during the summer) with an educational and informative speaker that also earn 1.5 hours of Continuing Professional Education credit.

Annually we sponsor a one-day conference providing 8 CPE credits at a very competitive price to keep our members up to-date with the latest information in the Internal Audit field.

I thank everyone who attended our Annual Professional Conference on March 11, and our Student Career Night at the Reef on April 19, 2011. Click on the Events tab at the top of this page for more information and to register.

We also need your help. Our chapter needs volunteers to:

Assist  with arrangements,  promotion, and hosting for the chapter annual Spring Conference    

Contact new members    

Help with Student Night  or contribute to our Toy Drive  

Serve on a committee    

Help with our bimonthly meetings    

Contribute to our newsletter and Web site   

And more. . . 

To volunteer, use the Contact Us link at the top of this column or the Link below.

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Student Career Night Acknowledgements

Our April meeting was also our annual Student Career Night. We reached out to University of Southern California (USC), California State University Long Beach, (CSULB), California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), California State University Fullerton (CSUF), UC Irvine, Concordia University, Vanguard University, and Loyola Marymount University to invite theirl students to an informative meeting where they could be exposed to the auditing profession and also have recruitment opportunities. It was a nice event for not only the 33 students attending, but Chapter members were able to greet some old-time members we don't see often, including Past-President Fritz Sullivan and Bernard Hargreaves of Southern California Edison, and Lynne Yorita and Sherrie Mancera from UCLA. We hope to hold future Student Nights, as these are unique events which are expecially worthwhile for our chapter.

Thanks again to Ron LaPlante, Kathryn Andrus, and Jim Olds for putting this together and to our corporate sponsors for supporting the students in the endeavor:

  • Northrop Grumman
  • Robert Half
  • Southern California Edison
  • ACL
  • Mayer Hoffman McCann CBIZ
  • Port of Los Angeles
  • Ron LaPlante
  • TTM Technologies


Holiday Inn Torrance

Driving Directions: Our meeting place is near the intersection of I-405 and I-110.

If you are coming south on I-110 take the 190th St./405 exit and go west (right) to Vermont, then south (left) to the hotel.

If you are coming north on I-405, take the Main St exit, then go south (left) to Del Amo Blvd and west (right) to Vermont Ave. At Vermont, turn north (right) to the hotel.

If you are coming south on I-405, take the Vermont Ave. exit and go south on Vermont about 2 blocks to the hotel.

Parking is free.

Holiday Inn
19800 South Vermont Ave .
Torrance, CA 90502
(310) 781-9100


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February 16 Lunch Meeting

IIA Beach Cities Chapter meeting with local audit and compliance workers like you.

Please join us at the Holiday Inn, Torrance for lunch and an informative presentation, networking with your peers and a nice lunch. The presentation this month is entitled "Risk Assessments Sized Right for Your Company" by John Snell and Kristina Foote from Moss, Adams. The presentation also earns 1 CPE.

The meeting will be on Thursday, February 16, 2011 from 11:30 (registration) to 1:30 PM at the Holiday Inn in Harbor Gateway, Torrance, CA (See photo and driving directions at left.)

For more information and reservation information follow the link to the Events page. 



IIA Beach Cities Chapter wants to put Audit and Compliance Professionals to work! 

If you have a job opportunity for Audit or Compliance professionals please send an email with the particulars of the application requirements to the chapter Webmaster, LKaspersky@Ducommun.Com, or use the "Contact Us" link in the upper left-hand corner of this page. We will post your notice on our Career Opportunities page where it will be seen by our members seeking a new position. 


IPPF

The IIA's Board of Directors has approved the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), under the oversight of The IIA's Professional Practices Council. The standards have been rolled out in the IIA's three core languages - English, French, and Spanish - the IPPF's new structures and associated processes will ensure that authoritative guidance is current, relevant, and internationally consistent. Between now and the date of release, IIA Global Headquarters will keep you informed on the progress every step of the way. Watch this space for updates about the IPPF process, the IPPF project, transitioning from the PPF to the IPPF, and the final product.



Beach Cities One-Day Seminar March 23

Save the date. We will be holding our annual One Day Seminar this year on March 23, 2012 at Toyota HQ, where it has been been for the past few years.

Although the final program has not been determined, we hope to have a General track and a Government break out track. We want to hold pricing at last years' rates which promises one of the best deals available for earning 8 CPE in a pleasant atmosphere.

We are still working on finalizing the program but save the date because we will begin taking reservations in February.

Watch this space or read the newsletter for more details as they become available.


Volunteers Needed

The chapter is currently looking for members who would like to step up to the next leadership level and volunteer with the Chapter.   It may appear that the chapter runs itself but it takes some work by people who are volunteering to help the chapter.

Right now, our Chapter needs a Programs VP. The Programs VP is responsible for arranging and coordinating the speakers for the meetings.

You get a lot of experience as well as assistance and mentoring  from the other board members. If interested, contact a board member.


 

Help Us Reach Gold Again in this Year's CAP Program

Six years in a row (2005-2010) our chapter has reached the Gold level in the IIA Chapter Achievement Program (CAP). That means our chapter and our members are consistently very active in the audit profession. We’re always calculating our CAP points and we need to know when our members participate in either of the following activities: 

Speaking on an internal audit topic at a meeting , seminar, or CPE class.

Submitting an article to a trade publication such as The Internal Auditor,
CAE Bulletin, IIA Educator, and other specialty newsletters.

If you have participated in one or more of these activities, please email the details to Jim Myers, our CAP coordinator.


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