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Mike Piazza
believes he can make a significant
contribution to the Institute's seminar
department; those who attended his first
seminar in Chicago know it.
Piazza is the
latest addition to The Institute's staff,
coming on board in September. No sooner
he had unpacked when he was whisked off to
Chicago to teach Internal Auditing
- Practice.
"Combining my
years of human relations training with my
accounting and auditing experience and my
love for teaching makes me feel that I can
make a contribution to The Institute's
seminar department, " Piazza said.
After
switching from a career in personal
administration at Marathon LeTourneau, he
returned to school to earn a BBA in
accounting and a
Master's of Accountancy from the University
of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. He
received some of his five years' teaching
experience while enrolled in a business
administration doctoral program at Texas A&M
University in College Station, Texas.
Prior to
that, he was the Chief Accountant for the
City of College Station and before that the
Internal Auditor for the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station Research Agency.
Piazza is
first to fill one of two new
instructors' positions approved for the
seminar staff by IIA's Board of Directors
during its meeting at the annual conference
in Toronto. His duties include teaching
seminars, workshops, colloquiums, technical
breakout sessions, and sometimes serving as
an on-site seminar director.
"Seminars
require less teaching and are most
challenging because of the diversified
educational and work experience backgrounds
of the participants," he said as he spoke of
his first IIA teaching experience. "A
seminar is more of a sharing process.
Everybody trades their experience and
knowledge, so I benefit as much as the
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