FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 26, 2003
CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119

LECTURE AT DRAKE TO FOCUS ON THE FINANCIAL REPORTING PROCESS

Mark C. Terrell, executive director of KPMG's Audit Committee Institute, will discuss "New Challenges Facing the Participants in the Financial Reporting Process" in a lecture at Drake University on Wednesday, October 8.

The 17th annual Financial Executives International-Drake School of Accounting Lecture, which is free and open to the public, will start at 7:15 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 26th Street and University Avenue. A reception will follow in Levitt Hall.

Terrell is a leading authority in the area of audit committees and other aspects of corporate governance and the financial reporting process. He began as a partner in charge of KPMG's Audit Committee Institute before becoming its executive director. He will discuss the new atmosphere of corporate and financial reporting in the wake of financial scandals involving companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco International, as well as the passage of the federal Sarbanes-Oxley bill.

The FEI-Drake Lecture is an annual program sponsored by the Iowa chapter of the Financial Executives International and Drake's School of Accounting and Business and Public Administration. FEI is a professional association of more than 14,000 senior financial executives from some 8,000 major corporations throughout the United States and Canada.
For more information about the FEI-Drake lecture, call (515) 276-3239.