Dallas Audit Committee Institute Roundtable

To register, please visit the address below.
www.us.kpmg.com/events/national/Fall2005ACIRegistration

For more information, contact Steve Woodlock at 214-840-2467 or swoodlock@kpmg.com or call KPMG's Audit Committee Institute at 1-877-576-4224.

The Fall 2005 Audit Committee Roundtable
At the Dallas Fall 2005 Audit Committee Roundtable, Accounting Judgments, Estimates, and Restatements: Implications for Audit Committee Oversight, we will explore the process used by audit committees to evaluate and oversee management's accounting policies, especially significant accounting judgments and estimates that underlie the company's financial reporting. We will also discuss some of the reasons for the increasing number of financial restatements, as well as accounting "red flags" such as earnings management techniques. Attorneys and forensic accountants will address issues to be considered when a significant accounting issue, with possible financial restatement implications, is identified, and will discuss the audit committee's role in the oversight of internal investigations. KPMG's Audit Committee Roundtables are designed to provide a highly interactive panel-led forum for the exchange of views and insights on topics of interest to members of corporate boards, audit committees, and senior executives.

KPMG LLP (U.S.)'s Dallas office, Haynes and Boone LLP, and SMU Cox School of Business look forward to your participation in the Fall 2005 Audit Committee Roundtable. We've received tremendous feedback from prior roundtables and we look forward to your active participation at our next event.

Sponsors

KPMG LLP (U.S.) Dallas Office
The Dallas office of KPMG that was founded in 1915, as a one-manager office of Peat Marwick, Mitchell & Co., has evolved to meet the needs of Dallas' booming economy.

The practices of audit and tax have expanded dramatically over the years offering Dallas-area businesses numerous information-based products and services. Audit has been expanded with risk advisory services and tax has extended well beyond federal, state and local. KPMG's Dallas office serves its clients by providing a broad range of accounting, auditing, risk advisory and tax services to industries from energy to consumer markets, from healthcare to financial services, from real estate to technology.

The Dallas office includes nearly 1,200 professionals with diverse backgrounds, capable of delivering a sophisticated and varied range of services related to audit and tax advisory services. Located in KPMG Centre, one of only five corporate named buildings on Dallas' skyline, KPMG's Dallas office occupies nine floors and over 200,000 square feet of the KPMG Centre.

Haynes & Boone LLP

Haynes and Boone is one of the largest and fastest-growing law firms in the U.S. Our firm believes that the world of business belongs to companies keen to compete, quick to adapt, eager to listen and learn and resolved to continually challenge themselves. We measure ourselves by the same standards. Our teamwork culture, our willingness to change quickly to meet the demands of the marketplace and our drive to be the best have been the key factors behind our success. We have grown from a handful of lawyers in 1970 to more than 450 lawyers today, have added more than 25 practice specialties, have expanded to nine offices and have become a national leader in the use of technology to deliver legal services. Our reputation in the business world has likewise grown. Haynes and Boone is a special law firm. We're young. We're growing. We're a team.

SMU- Cox School of Business

The Cox School of Business at SMU is recognized worldwide as one of the leading institutions of management education. Nestled in a stately residential area within a dynamic business center - Dallas, Texas - the Cox School is unique in combining outstanding academic training on a personal scale with tremendous corporate support and connections. The Cox School has been committed to providing an outstanding business education across a continuum of learning needs.

Most importantly, Cox focuses on maintaining a collaborative, team-oriented community of people who value excellence and innovation in business education, who want to make a difference in the world around them and who believe in the power of ideas.

Haynes & Boone LLP, and SMU-Cox School of Business are separate and distinct from KPMG International and its member firms. KPMG LLP (U.S.) does not offer legal services.

Moderator

Max S. Carrier, Dallas Business Unit Partner in Charge, Audit and Risk Advisory Services
KPMG LLP (U.S.)

During his 25 years with KPMG, Max Carrier has developed extensive experience in providing accounting, internal control, outsourcing, and business advice to publicly traded and privately held domestic and international companies. Mr. Carrier has advised and assisted public entities on initial public offerings, registration of equity and debt securities, and 1934 Act reporting, and has assisted companies as they work to implement business operating improvement programs.

Max received a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, The Dallas Petroleum Club, The Ohio State University Alumni Association and the treasurer for the National Association of Corporate Directors North Texas Chapter. He has previously served as a Committee Chairman for the Houston Chapter of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants. Max has been a panelist at several conferences discussing audit committees and corporate governance and also serves as the Dallas moderator for KPMG's Audit Committee Institute roundtable series, focusing on the responsibilities of today's audit committee members.

Panelists - TBD

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