Expanded program for '81;

              THE EO EDUCATIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
An Expanded
Program for'81
'ith the nation's businessmen
and professionals literally
inundated by invitations to
attend seminars on a spectrum of sub­jects
almost as broad as the imagination
of man, why would one of the large pub­lic
accounting firms decide the time was
right to launch its own external educa­tion
program?
"We established the Educational Ser­vices
Department and began holding
seminars last summer for several rea­sons,"
Bill Kuntz, Executive Office
partner in charge of the department,
said. "First, we identified a very real
need on the part of industry for more
training for internal auditors. Second,
we recognized that we not only had
a highly sophisticated and unique audit
approach, but that it would be to the
long-range benefit of our clients, others
and ourselves to make this knowledge
more widely available. To that end, our
primary focus is to assist our personnel
in serving our clients better by sharing
with them the techniques developed in
our professional practice."
The genesis of the Educational Services
Department can be traced to the sum­mer
of 1978, when DH&S held its first
AuditSCOPE seminar for forty-one
auditing educators in Vail, Colorado.
AuditSCO PE, an acronym for Audit Sys­tem
of Coordinated Objectives,
Procedures and Evaluations, is a term
used to describe our highly coordinated
approach to auditing that had been
evolving for more than fifty years. Al­though
some elements of AuditSCOPE
had been made known outside the firm
earlier, the 1978 meeting in Vail marked
the first time our overall approach was
outlined to an outside audience.
"The firm had a great response from the
educators who attended the seminar,"
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Bill said, "and I believe it helped focus
our thinking on the question of making
larger segments of our expertise more
generally accessible."
There were, or course, questions to be
answered before decisions would be
made. In February 1979 EO partners Bill
Stewart and Bob Pivik convened a task
force to study the feasibility and advisa­bility
of setting up a program of edu­cation
for a fee. Bill Kuntz, then partner
in charge of the Continuing Education
Department at Executive Office, was
named chairman of a group that in­cluded
partners Bob Atwood, Bill
Gerecke, Jule Phoenix, Ken Studdard
and Charlie Walworth. The task force
concluded that there was a real need on
the part of business and industry for ac­cess
to more and better training, espe­cially
in the field of internal auditing. The
findings of the task force formed the
basis for the present structure and
operational philosophy of the Educa­tional
Services Department.
"We focused on internal auditing be­cause
it's an area of growing impor­tance,"
Bill said. "We have the expertise,
the methodology and the techniques
that we developed, tested and refined
— that we proved were effective and
efficient. Simply put, we have the most
useful system of its kind available to the
internal auditor."
The firm views the seminar program as
an extension of the services offered to
clients. "The seminars are open to any­one,
not just clients," Bill said. "Much of
the rationale for the program was the
emerging need for training of internal
auditors because of their increasing
responsibilities."
The Educational Services Department
draws on firmwide technical resources
and on practice-office personnel to help
with course development and instruct­ing.
Devoting full time to the effort are
Bill Kuntz and Jo Dutcher, educational
services coordinator. In addition to head­ing
ESD, Bill remains involved in the
activities of the Continuing Education
Department as Dave Powell assumes
his new role as partner in charge of the
department.