Friday, October 19, 2007

Making Your Money Work for You


CHICAGO -- Continuing its commitment to financial literacy with its outreach to college students, the Illinois CPA Society is heading to campuses with its statewide initiative, a program called "Real World Survival: Money at Work."

The Society hopes to help young adults define and achieve financial
success, letting them know that with the right money management skills
success is within their reach. To help them get started the program offers
ideas on how to manage their money now and grow it for the future. It
covers a number of topics including:

-- Getting out of debt
-- Paying off student loans
-- Credit matters -- Managing credit cards, building and protecting
your credit and the repercussions of a good or bad rating
-- Building a budget that fits your lifestyle
-- What can you do with your savings? -- Different savings vehicles
such as 401(k), IRA, savings account, mutual funds and stocks, and their
pros and cons.

"College students have spent years studying to be teachers, engineers,
nurses, architects -- a whole range of professionals, but they are amateurs
when it comes to being sound money managers. The Illinois CPA Society wants
to arm these up-and-coming professionals with budgeting skills they need to
enter the real world on solid financial ground, and we want to do it in a
way that still gives them a real life in the process," said Elaine Weiss,
President and CEO of the Illinois CPA Society.

The Illinois CPA Society's statewide initiative continues in the
Chicago area with two upcoming events. The one hour program "Real World
Survival: Money at Work" will be presented at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, October
22, 2007 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Student Center East,
Room 509, 750 South Halsted Street, Chicago, and at noon on Tuesday,
October 30 at Chicago State University, Student Union Building, Fine Dining
Room, Martin Luther King Drive and 95th Street, Chicago.

More information about the Real World Survival program and other
consumer information can be found on the Illinois CPA Society's website,
http://www.icpas.org. Anyone interested in attending an upcoming event
should contact Judi Kulm, ICPAS Communications and Media Manager at
312-993-0407, extension 251.

About the Illinois CPA SocietyThe Illinois CPA Society, founded in
1903, is the fifth largest state CPA society in the nation, with more than
22,700 members. It is the only professional organization that represents
CPAs in Illinois. During its over 100 years of existence, the Society has
advanced the highest ethical and financial standards of the profession and
has been a leader in educating the public on financial issues.

SOURCE Illinois CPA Society

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