Erin Meradith William S. Smith Student Highest Achievement Award

LSU STUDENT RECEIVES HIGHEST SCORE ON CIA EXAM

January 27, 2005

LSU News

Erin Meradith, a masters of accounting student at LSU's E. J. Ourso College of Business, received the William S. Smith Student Highest Achievement Award from the Institute of Internal Auditors for earning the highest score of all students worldwide on the 2004 Certified Internal Auditor exam. She will be formally presented with the award during the IIA's 64th International Conference in Chicago in July.

Meradith will complete her master's degree in accounting at LSU in May and has accepted a position as a staff internal auditor with KPMG in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. She earned a bachelor's degree in management from LSU and graduated from the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. Meradith, a native of Ville Platte, La., is the 15th LSU student to receive the Student Highest Achievement Award since its inception in 1987.

The William S. Smith Student Highest Achievement Award is one of a series of Smith Awards given by IIA in honor of William S. Smith, the first chairman of the board of regents of IIA and a driving force behind the development of the Certified Internal Auditor program. Through the Smith Awards, IIA recognizes candidates who turn in the best performances on the core Certified Internal Auditor exam and successfully complete the entire exam in one sitting.

Other Smith Awards include the Gold Medal, Certificate of Excellence and Certificate of Honor. The E. J. Ourso College's Center for Internal Auditing is an internationally recognized leader in internal auditing education. It was the pilot internal auditing program endorsed by the IIA.

For more information on the Center for Internal Auditing, please visit
http://www.bus.lsu.edu or contact Glenn Sumners, director, at 225-578-6210 or gsumner@lsu.edu.

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