Faculty newsletter

We are dedicated to providing faculty with relevant and timely information that you might find helpful in your classroom or in your own personal research. Every six to eight weeks you will find new thought leadership, white papers, PwC publications, and technical updates. We always welcome your feedback on these updates and appreciate hearing from you on how PwC can best support you as faculty members.
 

January 2012

Dear Educator:

Welcome back to campus! We hope you enjoyed your winter break and we look forward to seeing many of you at the mid-year section meetings for the AAA.

This month, our Advisory practice will host a Live Chat on our Career Corner. In addition, we are announcing the return of our Personal Brand Week. We highlight PwC Open University to draw your attention to webcasts of potential interest such as the Q4 updates for Accounting and Reporting and Tax Accounting as well as our M&A Forecast for 2012. Also, we have included our 2011 APEC CEO Summit Report and the most recent version of The Quarter Close.

Explore PwC Advisory – Career Corner Live Chat on January 25th

Did you know that PwC has an Advisory practice focused on Consulting, Deals, Forensics?  PwC US Advisory is comprised of team members across the United States that have deep industry knowledge and experience, deliver strategic customer solutions, and help our clients -- from strategy through execution -- build a competitive advantage.  To learn more about Consulting, Deals, and Forensics visit www.pwc.com.

On Wednesday, January 25 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST PwC's Advisory practice is hosting an online live chat -- "Explore PwC Advisory" -- through our Career Corner.  Students will have an opportunity to learn more about PwC's Advisory practice through live interaction with current members of our Advisory practice.  During the hour long live session, students can submit their questions about Advisory and what our practice is looking for in its professionals.  Our hosts, Advisory Senior Associate, Zack Capozzi, who was recently named one of Forbes'  "30 under 30 in Finance"  and Advisory Operations Director, Cheryl Fernstrom, will respond with their insights and advice.

We encourage you and your students to join us.  To receive a reminder for the event, visit PwC's Career Corner Live Chat website.  To get updates and announcements regarding our live chats, you and your students can follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter @PwC_US_Careers

Personal Brand Week is back!

We are happy to announce that PwC's Personal Brand Week is back, and this year takes place February 6-10!   Our new "Grow Your Own Way" brand campaign, launched this Fall,  has been very well received over the past few months by students as it helps them think about how they may design their own career path.  PwC's Personal Brand Week is an additional opportunity for students to find and jump start their career  by identifying who they are, what they can do and what matters most to them. 

This event is free and open to all students, regardless of their career goals. Each day will focus on a particular area of importance when developing and articulating one's personal brand and will culminate in a personalized tool that students can use to either focus their academic goals or launch their career. By understanding and leveraging their personal brand, they can identify their individuality, maximize their strengths and manage their choices now to create future opportunities.   In other words, stand out simply by being themselves!

We hope you will encourage your students to visit us on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter @PwC_US_Careers for announcements about this valuable resource.

PwC Open University

We encourage you to regularly visit www.pwc.com/openuniversity where you have free and open access to a selection PwC-developed training courses covering a variety topics that may be of interest to you &/or your students.  You can browse by topic or by delivery method to find items such as the following:

Current Accounting and Reporting Developments: 4th Quarter 2011

This quarterly webcast is designed to keep you informed about emerging accounting, regulatory, and market developments impacting accounting and financial reporting. This webcast, hosted on December 1st, features insights from a broad range of PwC specialists, who will update you on the current state of technical topics and emerging issues. To access the archive, click here.

Quarterly Tax Accounting Webcast:  4th Quarter 2011

PwC invites you to join a panel of our Tax Accounting Services (TAS) specialists for a discussion of timely and relevant tax accounting matters in advance of year-end reporting for calendar-year companies -- including a discussion on tax accounting considerations related to recent regulatory and legislative developments.  This webcast was hosted on December 13th.  To access the archive, click here.

Deals webcast series: PwC's M&A Forecast for 2012

As corporations and private equity firms wrap up the fiscal year and look to renew growth strategies in the year ahead, how acquisitions and exits factor into those plans will be strongly influenced by confidence in the M&A market, availability of capital, and underlying economic growth conditions.

With an optimistic start to the year, the market volatility in the second half has introduced more risk into the market and increased the cost of financing. However, money is still flowing and available to get deals done.

During this webcast, hosted in December 2011, PwC experts discuss the current state of play in the US, the trends impacting dealmaking, and what we envision the deal market could look like in 2012.  To access the archive, click here.

We hope that you and your students will take advantage of this outstanding resource!

Asia Pacific at an inflection point - 2011 APEC CEO Summit report

As the Knowledge Partner for the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, PwC conducted a survey of over 300 business executives on key business issues and trends. The Survey explored such topics as barriers to trade, the growth of bi-lateral trade amongst countries within the region, the rising competition for talent, and the impact of the innovations in the field of technology.  To access the report or to view excerpts from interviews with CEOs, click here.

The quarter close: A look at this quarter’s financial reporting issues

This quarterly publication provides key highlights from the last few months and identifies additional resources that provide more detailed information and guidance.  The European debt crisis, a busy FASB and IASB convergence agenda, proposals for mandatory auditor rotation, SEC views on moving to IFRS, the emerging debate on private company standard setting...there’s no shortage of newsworthy topics this quarter. All of these topics—and more—got air time at the recent AICPA National Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments, so our highlights of the conference kick-off this edition.  Many other hot topics are also included.  We encourage you to access this informative publication.

We hope you find this information beneficial.  If there is anything we can do to be more responsive to your needs, please contact us at paul.and.peters@us.pwc.com.

Best Regards,