IIA Edmonton. Annual General Meeting. May, 2012

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1 May, 2012 IIA Edmonton Annual General Meeting The Chapter s Annual General Meeting, sponsored by PwC, will take place on Tuesday, May 15, At that meeting members will vote on a slate of candidates for the Board of Governors for the upcoming Chapter year. The Nomination List for the AGM is on our website at the following link FREE GIFTS AT THE AGM!!! There will be a surprise IIA Edmonton Chapter gi for all those a ending the mee ng! Per the chapter bylaws, any member can be nominated for any of the available positions either in advance to any member of the Nominating Committee Chair or it can be raised from the floor at the AGM. We are Looking for Sponsors! If you are interested in sponsoring the IIA Edmonton Chapter, please contact Edwin Ryl, Director Marketing for the Edmonton Chapter at edwin.ryl@edmonton.ca. Chapter Nominating Committee John Servage (Chair) servagej@macewan.ca Claudia Roszell claudia.roszell@telus.com Sunny Kakar sundeep.kakar@ca.pwc.com

2 May Luncheon and Annual General Meeting Our final chapter luncheon and AGM will take place Tuesday, May 15th. As May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month, we are pleased to welcome our mayor, Stephen Mandell as our special guest speaker. The Mayor will be addressing a variety of topics, including addressing IA relevance to stakeholders (including the Audit Committee) and how IA can better meet stakeholder expectations. This luncheon will also be our AGM, which includes electing the new Chapter Board of Directors. Date and Location: Tuesday, May 15 th at the Westin Hotel from 12 to 1 PM (doors open at 11:30). For more information and to register go to: Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 9 th at 12 PM The IIA Edmonton Chapter would like to thank PwC for sponsoring our AGM! FREE GIFTS!!! At the AGM, there will be a surprise IIA Edmonton Chapter gi for all those a ending the mee ng! Also note that the Nomination List for the AGM is on the website at the following link 2

3 Membership News May 2012 Edmonton Chapter Exceeds its 2011/2012 Goal of 400 Active Members! As of May1 st, the Edmonton Chapter has 403 active members. We welcomed the following members to our Chapter during the first four months of 2012: Samson Abu Donna Banasch Donna Bennell Sheena Casey John Doody Jillene Diamond Yanqing (Cindy) Du Joshua Gnutel May Han Paulina O'Connor Juzer Pardawala Kyung-Hong (Ken) Park Kristy Polack Ali Taliani Rebecca (Becky) Williams An additional two members joined during that period but asked that their names not be published in the Member Directory; therefore, their names are not listed here. Long-term Membership Recognition We extend our congratulations to the following members who celebrated major milestone anniversaries with the Institute of Internal Auditors as of the end of We will continue to honor members as they reach their milestone anniversaries. 20 years John Gillard, CIA Owen McFarlane (Retired) Cheryl Persson, CIA, CCSA, CRMA 15 years Lars Christensen Kevin Mulcair, CIA Dennis Malchuk, CIA, CGAP Vince Rykes, CIA Michael Smith, CIA 10 years Polly Berthelot Bernie Bolton, CIA, CRMA Vivianna Botticelli, CIA, CGAP Mariesa Carbone Shari-Lynn Lane Alex Muchortow, CIA, CRMA Lisa Nykolyshyn, CIA, CCSA Suzanne Robinson, CIA Tracy Tanasichuk, CIA Jil Tanguay Tammy Wilson, CIA 3

4 Membership News continued Members who have passed a long-term member milestone and would like to have a commemorative pin marking their last milestone anniversary are welcome to contact Lisa Nykolyshyn, VP Membership, lisa.nykolyshyn@gmail.com. Note: Members who have already achieved their 21+ year milestone anniversary will automatically have the pins mailed to them. If you think you should have been part of this listing, please contact me at the above and we can review the data in the IIA database. Newly Released Guidance for Members The IIA released the following practice guides in March 2012: 1. GTAG 1: Information Technology Risk and Controls, 2nd Edition (updated) 2. Quality Assurance and Improvement Program 3. Coordinating Risk Management and Assurance Visit for more guidance material. Free Members-Only Webinars The IIA's complimentary Members-Only Webinar Series is available exclusively to you as part of your membership. You can register for the free webinars at 15-May-2012: Your Personal Brand: Manage It! 19-June-2012: What to Do When it All Goes Wrong: Crisis Management and Business Continuity 17-July-2012: Pulse of the Profession: How Resources, Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges are Aligning for Internal Auditing On-demand 24/7 Members-Only Webinar Playback: Webinar Archives You asked us: Does the Members-Only Webinar playback option qualify for CPE credits? Are you concerned that if you don t watch the members-only webinars (MOW) live on the first day the webinars are aired, you won t qualify for IIA CPE credits? Questions like this have arisen because of the statement on the MOW webpage advising that Ondemand webinars do not qualify for NASBA CPEs. Rest assured, MOW playbacks absolutely count as IIA CPE credits under the self-study category. NASBA (aka National Association of State Boards of Accountancy) is a separate organization from the IIA, which governs CPAs and has its own set of rules for CPEs. Therefore, don t be concerned if the webinar date conflicts with our monthly luncheon schedule. You can sit back, view the MOW playback AND qualify for CPE credits as you watch it at your leisure. 4

5 Membership News continued Speaking of CPEs As a reminder, effective this year, all certified individuals are required to report their Continuing Professional Education credits earned on an annual basis. To facilitate this change, the reporting deadline date has moved from May 31st to December 31st for all candidates. Candidates will need to report a varied amount of CPE based on when they last reported. For more information, contact the IIA. Membership Data Improvement Initiative Thank you to all who reviewed their membership profiles and updated them as necessary. With better information, we ll be able to offer services tailored to our Chapter s needs. Didn t get the chance to update your information? You can do so anytime at Membership Directory Enhancement In May, we will begin publishing our membership directory by industry, in addition to by name and by company. Please give use feedback on whether you feel this is a useful resource and let us know what other resources you d like to see. NEW resource: AuditChannel TV In keeping with our motto "Progress Through Sharing," the IIA launched a new video-sharing site, AuditChannel.tv, in The "video channels" focus on fraud, governance, risk, technology, operations, and compliance. Most shared videos are under five minutes in length. The IIA envisions AuditChannel.tv to be community-driven, with users providing the majority of the content and guiding its evolution. Once registered at you can view, rate, and comment on the site's current content and add your own. Contributing content is easy. Grab your mobile phone or sit in front of your webcam, film a short segment (two to five minutes in length), and post to AuditChannel.tv using the instructions provided on the site. Let s set a goal of uploading 5 videos from Chapter members in (Go onto to see which Board member already contributed a video!) Lisa Nykolyshyn, VP Membership Lisa.Nykolyshyn@gmail.com 5

6 Upcoming IIA Canada Events IIA Canada National Conference 2012 The Institute of Internal Auditors Canada (IIA Canada) will hold its National Conference in Montréal this year. From September 23 to 26, this event will bring together over 500 professionals at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Under the theme Curiosity + Creativity = Success, the event features a bilingual program with more than 50 workshops that will ensure you and auditors from across the country are fully up to date on the newest developments in the field. WINNIPEG SEMINAR Summer Training Week - Winnipeg, Manitoba May 27 to May 30, 2012 Corporate Governance: Strategies for Auditors (2 days) Operational Auditing: Influencing positive change (2 days) Auditor-in-Charge (4 days) Control Self Assessment: An Introduction (2 days) Control Self Assessment: Facilitation Skills (2 days) 6

7 I I A E D M O N T O N We re on the web! Job Postings!! Remember to visit the Careers section of our website regularly to see all the latest job opportunities waiting for you!! Just follow this link WEBSITE Members Only Area If you are having any problem logging in to the Members Only area, first try your IIA membership number with the generic password iiaedmonton. If this does not work, please contact Werner Pietrzyk at werner.pietrzyk@csfinancial.ca for help. Important: Our chapter contact information comes directly from IIA headquarters on a monthly basis. It is therefore very important that you update any changes to your personal and contact information to the global website as soon as possible. Please contact Customer Service at or log in with your ID and password directly on the site and use the self administration option to change your information. General Information Visit the IIA Edmonton Chapter website at Visit the IIA Canada website at Visit the IIA global website at For questions regarding this newsletter or the website contact: Werner Pietrzyk at (780) or werner.pietrzyk@csfinancial.ca For any other questions regarding the chapter, please contact: Sunny Kakar at (780) or sundeep.kakar@ca.pwc.com 7