ADVISORY/Leading Financial Reporting Experts to Discuss Economic Reality vs. Financial Disclosure with Business Media and Investment Professionals.

Assignment Desks/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 28 & 29)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

The Association for Investment Management and Research(R) (AIMR(R)), the global professional association for financial analysts, portfolio managers and other investment professionals, is holding two financial reporting seminars on Oct. 28 and Oct. 29 in Boston, Mass.

-- On Oct. 28, Financial News Reporting - A Primer and Guide to Today's Issues for Journalists offers business media a primer on financial statement analysis, covering such subjects as the balance sheet, cash flow analysis, profitability ratios and limitations of ratio analysis, plus a discussion on many of today's hottest financial reporting issues.

-- AIMR's Financial Reporting and Reality: Closing the Gap on Oct. 29 will update investment professionals on how to critically examine company financial information in today's environment.

    When: Oct. 28: Financial New Reporting - A Primer and Guide to
           Today's Issues
          Oct. 29: Financial Reporting and Reality: Closing the Gap

    Where: Omni Parker House Hotel
           60 School Street
           Boston, Mass.

    --  The seminar on Oct. 28 will be held in the Alcott Ballroom

    --  The seminar on Oct. 29 will be held in the Rooftop Ballroom

    Featuring: At Financial New Reporting - A Primer and Guide to
               Today's Issues for Journalists:

    --  Charles Hill, CFA, director of research, Thomson First Call
        (luncheon speaker)

    --  Rebecca McEnally, CFA, vice president of advocacy, AIMR

    --  Jay Taparia, CFA, director of education for the Investment
        Analysts Society of Chicago; founder and managing director of
        Sanskar Investments.

               At Financial Reporting and Reality: Closing the Gap:

    --  David M. Blitzer, managing director and chief investment
        strategist, Standard and Poor's

    --  Charles Hill, CFA, director of research, Thomson First Call

    --  Baruch Lev, professor of accounting and finance, Stern School
        of Business

    --  Patricia McConnell, senior managing director, Bear Stearns &
        Co., Inc.

    --  David A. Zion, CFA, equity research, accounting and taxation,
        Credit Suisse First Boston

    Program: For detailed programs, go to:
             http://www.aimr.org/pdf/pressroom/boston_invite.pdf and
             http://www.aimr.org/conferences/02financialrep.html.

    RSVP: Please RSVP to Kathy Valentine at [phone] until Oct.
          15. Media are invited to attend the Financial Reporting and
          Reality conference in addition to the seminar on the Oct.
          28. All press pass requests should be forwarded to Kathy
          Valentine.

The Association for Investment Management and Research(R) is internationally renowned for its rigorous Chartered Financial Analyst(R) (CFA(R)) curriculum and examination program. More than 100,000 candidates enrolled for the 40th annual CFA exam last June. More information is available at www.aimr.org, 1-434-951-5499 (Virginia, USA), 852-2868-2700 (Hong Kong) or 44-207-712-1719 (London).