President's Message

September 2001

Welcome to the beginning of a great new year for the Dallas IIA Chapter !! Your officers, Board of Governors, and various committee chairpersons and members have been working very hard over the past few months planning an exciting year for you. I hope you will join us at as many monthly meetings, seminars, and other events as you can during the next nine months. We are starting the year with an outstanding program in September. The theme for September is “Improving Your Internal Audit Team’s Skill Sets.” Dan Korem will speak at lunch on "The Art Of Profiling - Reading People Right The First Time". Those who have heard Dan (which includes me) will tell you he is a great speaker and he presents a very informative and entertaining program. As you will note elsewhere on the web site, this first meeting is on September 21, which is a FRIDAY. We had to do this to accommodate Dan’s very busy schedule.

The remainder of our meetings during the year will be on our traditional 3^rd Thursday of each month - except December, which we moved up one week to stay away from the holidays. On our web site you can find information on the monthly luncheon programs and seminars for the rest of the year as they are currently planned. Some items are just coming together and, of course, are subject to change. I think you will agree, the folks working on this have put together a great year that we can all look forward to. By the way - how about the great new look on our web site !! A big thanks to the Web Site Committee for their great work on this.

As announced at our last meeting in May, our Chapter kept our winning tradition alive and we achieved GOLD status in the Chapter Achievement Program. What was not known then but was announced at the International Conference in Buenos Aires in June were other awards some hard working, dedicated folks brought to our Chapter. We won FIRST PLACE in the Donald E. Ricketts Chapter Research competition for the great work done by last year’s Research Project Committee on “The Benefits of an Endowment Program”. We also won second place for our Academic Relations Program. Congratulations to all who helped bring these awards to our Chapter !! On the web site you will find a listing of this year’s committees and chairpersons. You will see a few chair vacancies and many committees are still looking for more help. If you’re looking for a way to serve the Chapter and the Audit profession - and have some fellowship and fun - contact one of the officers or chairpersons and get involved !!

Larry Rex
President